Research infographic – Artificial neural network encoding of molecular wavefunctions for quantum computing

We’re pleased to share this infographic on research by Hagai, Yanai et al. that exploits neural networks and quantum computing to describe the entanglement of many-body quantum systems:

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Artificial neural network encoding of molecular wavefunctions for quantum computing

Research infographic – Link-INVENT: generative linker design with reinforcement learning

Link-INVENT, an extension to REINVENT for the design of PROTACs, fragment linking, and scaffold hopping, is the subject of our new infographic:

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Link-INVENT: generative linker design with reinforcement learning

Research infographic – Unified graph neural network force-field for the periodic table: solid state applications

Our latest infographic highlights work from Choudhary et al. on a machine learning force field for solids covering 89 elements:

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Unified graph neural network force-field for the periodic table: solid state applications

Research infographic – Uncertainty-aware and explainable machine learning for early prediction of battery degradation trajectory

Our next infographic presents work from Rieger et al., using explainability and uncertainty to efficiently predict battery degradation and end-of-life.

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Uncertainty-aware and explainable machine learning for early prediction of battery degradation trajectory

Research infographic – Cell morphology-guided de novo hit design by conditioning GANs on phenotypic image features

We’re pleased to share this new infographic on work from Marin Zapata et al., showing that phenotypic features of cell images can guide a GAN to drug candidates:

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Cell morphology-guided de novo hit design by conditioning GANs on phenotypic image features

Paula A. Marin Zapata, Oscar Méndez-Lucio, Tuan Le, Carsten Jörn Beese, Jörg Wichard, David Rouquié and Djork-Arné Clevert, Digital Discovery, 2023, 2, 91–102, DOI: 10.1039/D2DD00081D

Research infographic – A fully automated platform for photoinitiated RAFT polymerization

The first infographic from Digital Discovery volume 2 highlights a paper from Gormley et al. on a fully automated system for synthesising new polymers. The automated lab includes independent control of each reaction in a well plate using a custom light box.

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A fully automated platform for photoinitiated RAFT polymerization

Research infographic – Deep learning for enantioselectivity predictions in catalytic asymmetric β-C–H bond activation reactions

Machine-learning prediction of enantioselectivity of C-H bond activation reactions is the focus of this infographic, on an exciting new paper by Hoque and Sunoj:

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“Deep learning for enantioselectivity predictions in catalytic asymmetric β-C–H bond activation reactions”

Research infographic – Operator-independent high-throughput polymerization screening based on automated inline NMR and online SEC

Our newest research infographic shares research by Junkers et al., demonstrating the use of automation to reduce operator-to-operator inconsistencies in high-throughput RAFT screening while improving efficiency.

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Operator-independent high-throughput polymerization screening based on automated inline NMR and online SEC

Digital Discovery, 2022, 1, 519–526, DOI: 10.1039/D2DD00035K

Professor Cesar de la Fuente joins the team as an Associate Editor

Welcome to Digital Discovery!

We are delighted to welcome Professor Cesar de la Fuente-Nunez from the University of Pennsylvania, USA, as a new Associate Editor for Digital Discovery.

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Cesar de la Fuente is a Presidential Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where he leads the Machine Biology Group whose goal is to combine the power of machines and biology to help prevent, detect, and treat infectious diseases. Specifically, he pioneered the development of the first antibiotic designed by a computer with efficacy in animals, designed algorithms for antibiotic discovery, reprogrammed venoms into antimicrobials, created novel resistance-proof antimicrobial materials, and invented rapid low-cost diagnostics for COVID-19 and other infections.

De la Fuente is an NIH MIRA investigator and has received recognition and research funding from numerous other groups. Prof. de la Fuente has received over 50 awards. He was recognized by MIT Technology Review as one of the world’s top innovators for “digitizing evolution to make better antibiotics”. He was selected as the inaugural recipient of the Langer Prize, an ACS Kavli Emerging Leader in Chemistry, and received the AIChE’s 35 Under 35 Award and the ACS Infectious Diseases Young Investigator Award.

In 2021, he received the Thermo Fisher Award, and the EMBS Academic Early Career Achievement Award “For the pioneering development of novel antibiotics designed using principles from computation, engineering, and biology.” Most recently, Prof. de la Fuente was awarded the prestigious Princess of Girona Prize for Scientific Research, the ASM Award for Early Career Applied and Biotechnological Research and has been named a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate several times.

Professor de la Fuente has given over 200 invited lectures and his scientific discoveries have yielded over 110 publications, including papers in Nature Biomedical Engineering, Nature Communications, PNAS, ACS Nano, Cell, Nature Chemical Biology, Advanced Materials, and multiple patents.

 

Read some of Cesar’s recent papers below.

Deep generative models for peptide design

Fangping Wan, Daphne Kontogiorgos-Heintz and Cesar de la Fuente-Nunez

Digital Discovery, 2022, 1, 195-208

AI and drug discovery

Morgan Craig, Juan Caicedo, Payel Das, James Collins, Francesca Grisoni, Cesar de la Fuente-Núñez, Yu-Shan Lin, Jian Tang

Cell Reports Physical Science, 2022, 3, 101142

 

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Research infographic – Semi-supervised machine learning workflow for analysis of nanowire morphologies from transmission electron microscopy images

Nanomaterial research often involves characterising structures through microscopy which could be accelerated by automation. This new infographic describes a new workflow by Jayaraman et al. for analysing nanowire morphologies.

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Semi-supervised machine learning workflow for analysis of nanowire morphologies from transmission electron microscopy images

Shizhao Lu, Brian Montz, Todd Emrick and Arthi Jayaraman, Digital Discovery, 2022, 1, 816–833, DOI: 10.1039/D2DD00066K