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Deep Learning Deleterious Small Molecule Biochemistry From The Lab To The Clinic, Matthew Matlock

Arts & Sciences Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Small molecules are key tools in biology and medicine. In biology, small molecules are used to probe biological systems and gain insight into their structure and function. In medicine, this role is further refined to reverse the biological conditions that contribute to human disease. Developing new small molecules into biological probes or drugs can be a daunting scientific task. These projects often begin with many thousands of potential candidates, which are progressively screened and eliminated from consideration by high-throughput experimental assays. Those molecules that emerge from this process as candidate drugs are also subject to extensive in vitro, in vivo, …