Machine learning has been applied to numerous stages in the drug discovery pipeline. Here, Vamathevan and colleagues discuss the most useful techniques and how machine learning can promote data-driven decision making in drug discovery and development. They highlight major hurdles in the field, such as the required data characteristics for applying machine learning, which will need to be solved as machine learning matures.
- Jessica Vamathevan
- Dominic Clark
- Shanrong Zhao
