Deep Learning for Drug Discovery: A Study of Identifying High Efficacy Drug Compounds Using a Cascade Transfer Learning Approach

In this research, we applied deep learning to rank the effectiveness of candidate drug compounds in combating viral cells, in particular, SARS-Cov-2 viral cells. For this purpose, two different datasets from Recursion Pharmaceuticals, a siRNA image dataset (RxRx1), which were used to build and calib...

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Main Authors: Dylan Zhuang, Ali K. Ibrahim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-08-01
Series:Applied Sciences
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/17/7772