Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to transform therapeutic science. Therapeutics Data Commons is an initiative to access and evaluate AI capability across therapeutic modalities and stages of discovery, establishing a foundation for understanding which AI methods are most suitable and why.
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K.H. and M.Z. gratefully acknowledge the support of US National Science Foundation (NSF) awards IIS-2030459 and IIS-2033384, US Air Force contract no. FA8702-15-D-0001 and awards from the Harvard Data Science Initiative, Amazon Research, Bayer Early Excellence in Science, AstraZeneca Research and the Roche Alliance with Distinguished Scientists. W.G. was supported by the US Office of Naval Research under grant no. N00014-21-1-2195. C.W.C. was supported by the Machine Learning for Pharmaceutical Discovery and Synthesis (MLPDS) Consortium. J.S. was supported by NSF awards SCH-2014438, IIS-1838042, US National Institutes of Health (NIH) award 1R01NS107291-01, and OSF Healthcare. J.L. was supported by the US Defense Advanced Research Progress Agency under awards HR00112190039, N660011924033; the Army Research Organization under nos. W911NF-16-1-0342, W911NF-16-1-0171; the NSF under nos. OAC-1835598, OAC-1934578, CCF-1918940; the NIH under no. 3U54HG010426-04S1; and the Stanford Data Science Initiative, the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, Amazon, Docomo, GSK, Hitachi, Intel, JPMorgan Chase, Juniper Networks, KDDI, NEC and Toshiba. Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the funders.
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K.H., T.F., W.G. and M.Z. designed the data management and computational infrastructure. K.H., T.F., W.H., Y.Z., Y.R. and M.Z. implemented the programming interface and software package. K.H., T.F., W.H. and Y.R. retrieved, processed and harmonized datasets. K.H. and M.Z. designed and implemented the website. K.H., T.F., W.H., Y.Z., Y.R., J.L., C.C, C.X., J.S. and M.Z. wrote and edited the manuscript. M.Z. conceived and supervised the study.
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Huang, K., Fu, T., Gao, W. et al. Artificial intelligence foundation for therapeutic science. Nat Chem Biol 18, 1033–1036 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41589-022-01131-2
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