Computer Scientists Announce Possibility of “Smart Drugs” Through Chemical Computational Devices
December 17, 2013
The article titled Programming Smart Molecules: Machine-Learning Algorithms Could Make Chemical Reactions Intelligent on Science Daily reports on the work of computer scientists from Harvard and the Wyss Institute. The possibilities are exciting, “smart drugs” that can adjust to an individuals chemistry? Yes, please. The article explains the development of chemical computational devices aimed at certain algorithms, which have already made robots capable of more complex decision-making.
The article states:
“This insight opens up interesting new questions for computer scientists working on statistical machine learning, such as how to develop novel algorithms and models that are specifically tailored to tackling the uncertainty molecular engineers typically face. In addition to the long-term possibilities for smart therapeutics, it could also open the door for analyzing natural biological reaction pathways and regulatory networks as mechanisms that are performing statistical inference.”
The article goes on to compare bioengineers facing incomplete molecular pathways with the movement into big data attempting to make sense of huge amounts of data. The ability to leap these obstacles with modeling between random variables is in the near future, and already found to be an efficient method of gathering data through random events. Will Google’s synthetic biology group adopt these methods? It seems likely.
Chelsea Kerwin, December 17, 2013
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