AI in Biotechnology

Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Biotechnology

1.Diagnosis

Diagnostic issues are data-driven and resolving them requires new data-science based approaches.
So by using innovative AI and machine-learning one can improve diagnostic accuracy and cut costs – improving patient safety worldwide.

diagnostics.ai is playing a part in this future by applying AI to diagnostics- making tests more automated, accurate and thus safer.

Diagnosis is done with the help of qPCR i.e Quantitative PCR(Polymerase Chain Reaction) which is used to detect, characterize and quantify Nucleic Acids.

2.Rare Diseases

Facial recognition software is being combined with machine learning to help clinicians diagnose rare diseases. Patient photos are analyzed using facial analysis and deep learning to detect phenotypes that correlate with rare genetic disease.

3.Drug Discovery

Traditional drug discovery methods are target-driven, i.e., a known target is used to screen for small molecules that either interact with it or affect its function in cells.

However, these methods are extremely limited due to the complex nature of cellular interactions as well as limited knowledge of intricate cellular pathways.

AI can overcome these challenges by identifying novel interactions and inferring functional importance of different components of a cellular pathway.

AI utilizes complex algorithms and machine learning to extract meaningful information from a large dataset, e.g., a dataset of RNA sequencing can be used to identify genes whose expression correlates with a given cellular condition.

AI can also be used to identify compounds that could bind to ‘undruggable targets’, i.e., proteins whose structures are not defined. Through iterative simulations of interactions of different compounds with small pieces of a protein, a predictive set of compounds can be easily identified in a relatively small amount of time. 

Phenomic AI (https://phenomic.ai/) and Cyclica  (https://cyclicarx.com/) software are employing AI.

4.AI in Plant Sciences and Agriculture.

In a field in Switzerland, a solar powered robot that looks like a table on wheels scans the rows of crops with its camera, Identifies weeds and zaps them with Blue jet of liquid from its mechanical tentacles.

Plantix is an App that helps detect and diagnose deficiencies, pests and weeds.