AI model SyntheMol develops six new drugs to fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria

Scientists from Stanford Medicine and McMaster University have developed an artificial intelligence model called SyntheMol that has generated structures and chemical recipes for six novel drugs to combat antibiotic-resistant strains of Acinetobacter baumannii bacteria. This bacterium is responsible for many antibiotic resistance-related deaths. The model was trained to construct potential drugs using a library of over 130,000 molecular building blocks and a set of validated chemical reactions. Out of the 58 compounds that were successfully generated and tested in the …

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