Advanced Insights S2E3: Absci on AI Accelerated Drug Discovery

Sean McClain, Founder and CEO of Absci, and Mark Papermaster step into the world of drug discovery, where processes are incredibly time consuming, costly and complex.

00:00-00:13 Series Overview
00:14-00:20 On This Episode Description
00:21-00:55 Intro to Guest Sean McClain
00:56-03:48 The Drug Discovery Process Explained
03:49-06:05 Impetus for Absci: Scaling Drug Functionality
06:06-06:39 Complex Drug Permutation Simplified
06:40-08:26 AI Accelerates the Wet Lab Loop
08:27-13:54 Groundbreaking Biology Enabled by AI
13:55-16:59 High Memory is Critical in Model Training
17:00-17:38 Accurate Models Improve Drug Discovery Success
17:39-18:35 Lower Cost and Time Investments Required
18:36-20:15 How Does Technology Disrupt Biological Research?
20:16–21:31 How Models are Trained with Various Data
21:32-23:42 Enhancing Compute Efficiency Boosts Scalability
23:43–25:20 Ten-Year Vision for AI & Biology Intersection
25:21–26:29 A Future of Personalized Drug Discovery
26:30–27:17 Key Takeaways
27:18–27:59 Series Closing


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