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How AI could Revolutionize Biology — and Vice Versa
Melding artificial intelligence and biology may not just be another tool for understanding medicine. Biology could be "a driver for the next generation of advances in machine learning."
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Cutting-edge, machine-learning techniques are increasingly being adapted and applied to biological data, including for COVID-19.
The big picture: Discovering and developing a new drug typically takes more than a decade and costs on average close to $1 billion, making it difficult to build a cache of pharmaceuticals to fight future pandemics or stop intractable diseases.
But scientists are combining two scientific leaps — in machine-learning algorithms and powerful biological imaging and sequencing tools — to try to spur progress in understanding diseases and advance AI itself.
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