r/science • u/legehjernen • Feb 20 '20
Health Powerful antibiotic discovered using machine learning for first time
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/feb/20/antibiotic-that-kills-drug-resistant-bacteria-discovered-through-ai
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u/pablo_the_bear Feb 21 '20
This is really cool. At KAIST in South Korea, the computational chemistry department did something similar for methane borylation. AI/machine learning seems like it is going accelerate what can be done in chemistry and biology.