August 13, 2020 2:37 PM
Indian-origin scientist leads team to use AI to identify new coronavirus drug candidates
A team led by an Indian-origin scientist has used artificial intelligence (AI) to identify hundreds of new potential drugs that could help treat COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, or SARS-CoV-2.<br />''<br />''There is an urgent need to identify effective drugs that treat or prevent COVID-19, said Anandasankar Ray, a professor at the University of California, Riverside in the US.<br />''<br />''We have developed a drug discovery pipeline that identifie...