1-3/03/2022 – AI4SD Network+ Conference 2022 – Chilworth Manor Hotel

We are the AI3SD Network+ (Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Intelligence for Automated Investigations for Scientific Discovery). The network+ is funded by EPSRC and hosted by the University of Southampton and aims to bring together researchers looking to show how cutting edge artificial and augmented intelligence technologies can be used to push the boundaries of scientific discovery. We launched in December 2018, and this conference marks the end of our network term. This is a three day residential event with a mixture of keynote talks from experts in the different areas of AI for Scientific Discovery, and discussions around different research areas. There will be dedicated time for networking and we will be implementing a smart badge system whereby attendees can mark their badges according to whether they are looking for a collaborator, employment, job candidates, PhD students etc. We will report on the activities of AI3SD over the last three years, including the events we have run, the pilot projects we have funded, and our summer school and summer internship initiatives. There will also be some musical entertainment in the evening.Β 

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03/11/2021 – AI3SD Autumn Seminar IV: AI & ML 4 Drugs & Materials

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This seminar forms part of the AI3SD Online Seminar Series that will run across the autumn (from October 2021 to December 2021). This seminar will be run via zoom, when you register on Eventbrite you will receive a zoom registration email alongside your standard Eventbrite registration email. Where speakers have given permission to be recorded, their talks will be made available on our AI3SD YouTube Channel. The theme for this seminar is AI & ML 4 Drugs & Materials.Β 

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21/04/2021 – AI3SD Winter Seminar Series: Targets

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This seminar forms part of the AI3SD Online Seminar Series that will run across the winter (from November 2020 to April 2021). This seminar will be run via zoom, when you register on Eventbrite you will receive a zoom registration email alongside your standard Eventbrite registration email. Where speakers have given permission to be recorded, their talks will be made available on our AI3SD YouTube Channel. The theme for this seminar is Targets.

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02/12/2020 – AI3SD Winter Seminar Series: Robots, AI and NLP in Drug Discovery

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This seminar forms part of the AI3SD Online Seminar Series that will run across the winter (from November 2020 to April 2021). This seminar will be run via zoom, when you register on Eventbrite you will receive a zoom registration email alongside your standard Eventbrite registration email. Where speakers have given permission to be recorded, their talks will be made available on our AI3SD YouTube Channel. The theme for this seminar is Robots, AI and NLP in Drug Discovery.

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16/09/2020 – AI3SD Online Seminar Series: Supramolecular Antimicrobials – the next target for AI/Machine Learning? – Dr Jennifer Hiscock

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Since the 1980’s the development of novel antibiotics has dramatically reduced. This, combined with the ever-increasing prevalence of antibiotic resistance in bacteria, means that some bacterial strains have now been identified that are resistant to treatment with all known classes of antibiotic currently available. Supramolecular Self-associating Amphiphiles (SSAs) are a novel class of amphiphilic salts that contain an uneven number of covalently linked hydrogen bond donating and accepting groups, meaning that they are β€˜frustrated’ in nature. The hydrogen-bonded, self-associative properties for members of this class of over 70 compounds synthesised to date have been extensively studied in the gas phase, solution state, solid state and in silico. Through these studies we have shown correlations between certain physicochemical properties that maybe predicted by simple, low-level, high-throughput, easily accessible computational modelling. In addition, members from this class of compound have been shown to kill a variety of different bacteria, including those with known antibiotic resistance (e.g. Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)). These initial studies have highlighted within the supramolecular chemistry community a vast amount of experimental data, not yet accessed by AI/machine learning. Could data sets such as these be the next targets of interest for this community? Is there room for a consortium or community led approach to solving predictive modelling within this branch of chemistry.

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09/09/2020 – AI3SD Online Seminar Series: Using Artificial Intelligence to Optimise Small-Molecule Drug Design – Dr Nathan Brown

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he concept of in silico molecular design goes back decades and has a long history of published approaches using many different algorithms and models. Major challenges involved in de novo molecular design are manifold, including identifying appropriate molecular representations for optimisation, scoring designed molecules against multiple modelled endpoints, and objectively quantifying synthetic feasibility of the designed structures. Recently, multiobjective de novo design, more recently referred to as generative chemistry, has had a resurgence of interest. This renaissance has highlighted a step-change in successful applications of such methods. This presentation will review the development of de novo design methods over the years including the author’s original work in this area from the early 2000s, to recent approaches that show great promise. Through this review, improvements in important components of de novo design, including machine learning model predictions and automated synthesis planning, will also be presented.

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04/09/2020 – AI3SD Online Seminar Series: Machine Learning for Early Stage Drug Discovery – Professor Charlotte Deane

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Professor Charlotte Deane from the University of Oxford speaks about some of the work her research group have done on Machine Learning for Early Stage Drug Discovery to give a flavour of the different kinds of approaches they have been looking at. These run from predicting whether molecules will bind or not bind to a given protein target, to trying to remove biases from that kind of work, to finally how do we generate novel molecules in the protein binding sites.Β 

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04/09/2020 – AI3SD Online Seminar Series: Machine Learning for Early Stage Drug Discovery – Professor Charlotte Deane

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY0myVuhrCo&t=14s&ab_channel=AI4ScientificDiscovery Abstract: Professor Charlotte Deane from the University of Oxford speaks about some of the work her research group have done on Machine Learning for Early Stage Drug Discovery to…

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01/07/2020 – AI3SD Online Seminar Series: Drug Repositioning for COVID-19 – Professor John Overington

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcgeTVfiVl4&ab_channel=AI4ScientificDiscovery Interview: Dr Wendy Warr interviewed John prior to this seminar. This interview can be found here: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/441804/ Abstract: Pandemics, such as Covid-19. are by definition essentially unanticipatable and rapid onset. Features…

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