Digital Discovery invites you to this webinar on opportunities, challenges and techniques in the use of AI and data in drug discovery and development.

Featuring Maximilian Jakobs (DeepMirror), Andreas Bender (University of Cambridge) and Nessa Carson (AstraZeneca), this 90-minute seminar will explore key ideas and case studies, challenges in achieving tangible process improvements, and approaches to interfacing AI, data and robotic systems with pharmaceutical R&D.

Register to join us live on Wednesday, 30 October 2024 at 1400 GMT, or receive the on-demand version.

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Program

1400 GMT – Welcome
1405 GMT – Introduction to Digital Discovery, Anna Rulka (Executive Editor, Digital Discovery)
1410 GMT – What is AI, and Why Does It Matter?, Maximilian Jakobs (DeepMirror)
1435 GMT – Aspects of Life Science Data and Translation, Andreas Bender (Cambridge University)
1500 GMT – AI and data in the process development space, Nessa Carson (AstraZeneca)
1525 GMT – Final questions and close

This webinar is free to attend wherever you are, and can be watched either live or on-demand at a time that’s convenient to you. We hope you can join us!

Our recent Desktop Seminar with our Outstanding Paper Award winner Claudiane Ouellet-Plamondon, and Associate Editor Linda Hung, is now available to view on demand. We hope you enjoy the interesting work from our presenters!

Seminar recording

Professor Claudiane Ouellet-Plamondon École de Technologie Supérieure Montreal, Canada Title: “From automated mix design of concrete for 3D printing to a vision of an algorithmic system for net zero concrete.”
Dr Linda Hung Toyota Research Institute, United States Title: “Data-driven insights about inorganic crystal structures.”

Further seminar information

More about this year’s Outstanding Paper Award winners

We are pleased to announce a new desktop seminar to recognise the Digital Discovery Outstanding Paper Award winners for 2022, Professor Claudiane Ouellet-Plamondon and Dr Vasileios Sergis.

Join Professor Ouellet-Plamondon and Digital Discovery Associate Editor Dr Linda Hung as they present their latest research. This 60-minute seminar will allow researchers of all professional levels to connect and share ideas and ask questions.

If you’re interested in the seminar but can’t make the date, register your interest and we’ll send you a link to the recording afterwards.

Tuesday 24 October, 0900 PDT

Professor Claudiane Ouellet-Plamondon École de Technologie Supérieure Montreal, Canada Title: “From automated mix design of concrete for 3D printing to a vision of an algorithmic system for net zero concrete.”
Dr Linda Hung Toyota Research Institute, United States Title: “Data-driven insights about inorganic crystal structures.”

Further seminar information

More about this year’s Outstanding Paper Award winners

This seminar has already taken place, however you can view a recording at the link below:

Seminar recording

Digital Discovery is pleased to support the Ultra-large Chemical Libraries meeting organised by RSC CICAG, to be held on the 10th of August 2022 at our headquarters in Burlington House, London, UK. If you’d like to submit a poster, please note that the abstract deadline is the 2nd of June!

Find out more about this event, and how to register, on its events page, and find the speaker list at its web site.

We’re pleased to share a recording of our first Desktop Seminar, held on 29 March. View the seminar here find out more about the journal, and the research of our editors and authors! We look forward to holding further Desktop Seminars in the near future.

There’s still time to register for the Digital Discovery desktop seminar, taking place on the 29^th of March 2022 at 1300 EDT! If you’re interested but can’t make the date, register your interest and we’ll send you a link to the recording afterwards.

Tuesday 29 March, 1800 BST / 1300 EDT / 1000 PDT

Professor Alán Aspuru-Guzik                                                  University of Toronto, Canada Editor-in-Chief, Digital Discovery Title: “Computer Vision for Self-Driving Labs.”
Andrea Angulo and Prof. Miguel A. Modestino New York University, USA Title: “Leveraging Machine Learning Approaches to Optimize Organic Electrosynthesis.”
Professor Lilo D. Pozzo University of Washington, USA Editorial Board Member, Digital Discovery Title: “Materials Acceleration for All through Open Hardware.”

Further information

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Update 17 March 2022:

We regret to announce that the desktop seminar scheduled for 24 March has been cancelled due to exceptional circumstances. We are sorry for the inconvenience. We hope to run a similar webinar in the near future. Note that the desktop seminar on 29 March will continue as planned.

Original post:

We are pleased to announce two free desktop seminars to mark the publication of the first issue of Digital Discovery. In these 90-minute seminars, meet the authors and editors of Digital Discovery and learn about the exciting experimental and computational work being performed to accelerate scientific progress.

If you’re interested in either seminar but can’t make the date, register your interest and we’ll send you a link to the recording afterwards.

Thursday 24 March, 0900 UTC / 1000 CET / 1200 MSK / 1900 JST

Professor Yuya Oaki                                                                Keio University, Japan Title: “Sparse modeling for small data (SpM-S) toward digital discovery in chemistry and materials science.”
Professor Ekaterina V. Skorb ITMO University, Russia Editorial Board Member, Digital Discovery Title: “Digital Discovery at Infochemistry Scientific Center of ITMO University.”
Professor Evgeny A. Pidko Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Title: “High throughput computational screening and reaction network analysis for homogeneous catalysis with transition metal complexes.”

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Tuesday 29 March, 1800 BST / 1300 EDT / 1000 PDT

Professor Alán Aspuru-Guzik                                                  University of Toronto, Canada Editor-in-Chief, Digital Discovery Title: “Computer Vision for Self-Driving Labs.”
Andrea Angulo and Prof. Miguel A. Modestino New York University, USA Title: “Leveraging Machine Learning Approaches to Optimize Organic Electrosynthesis.”
Professor Lilo D. Pozzo University of Washington, USA Editorial Board Member, Digital Discovery Title: “Materials Acceleration for All through Open Hardware.”

Further information

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Digital Discovery are pleased to announce sponsorship of the best paper prize at the 1st Annual AAAI Workshop on AI to Accelerate Science and Engineering (AI2ASE), taking place as part of the 36th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. We are particularly pleased to be involved given this year’s theme, “AI for Chemistry”.

The annual AAAI workshop on AI to Accelerate Science and Engineering (AI2ASE) is relevant for dissemination of research at the intersection of AI/ML and Chemistry. Digital Discovery and AI2ASE are considering a special issue for selected papers in the chemistry domain; watch this space for more information.

You can find out more about the AI2ASE workshop at the event web site.