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ArticleInterface focus2021

Pandemic drugs at pandemic speed: infrastructure for accelerating COVID-19 drug discovery with hybrid machine learning- and physics-based simulations on high-performance computers.

Agastya P Bhati, Shunzhou Wan, Dario Alfè, Austin R Clyde, Mathis Bode, Li Tan, Mikhail Titov, Andre Merzky, Matteo Turilli, Shantenu Jha and 19 more

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Article in Interface focus, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Artificial Intelligence Must Be Made More Scientific.Journal of chemical information and modeling · 2024
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  6. Introduction to Computational Biomedicine.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2024
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  7. Accelerating COVID-19 Drug Discovery with High-Performance Computing.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2024
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  8. Efficient and Reliable Data Management for Biomedical Applications.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2024
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  11. Pre-exascale HPC approaches for molecular dynamics simulations. Covid-19 research: A use case.Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Computational molecular science · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

29 authors.

Agastya P BhatiCentre for Computational Science, University College London, Gordon Street, London WC1H 0AJ, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-4539-4819
Shunzhou WanCentre for Computational Science, University College London, Gordon Street, London WC1H 0AJ, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-7192-1999
Dario AlfèDepartment of Earth Sciences, London Centre for Nanotechnology and Thomas Young Centre at University College London, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
Austin R ClydeDepartment of Computer Science, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Mathis BodeInstitute for Combustion Technology, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen 52056, Germany.
Li TanBrookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA.
Mikhail TitovDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.
Andre MerzkyDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.
Matteo TurilliDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.
Shantenu JhaBrookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA.
Roger R HighfieldScience Museum, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2DD, UK.
Walter RocchiaConcept Lab, Italian Institute of Technology, Via Melen, Genova, Italy.
Nicola ScafuriConcept Lab, Italian Institute of Technology, Via Melen, Genova, Italy.
Sauro SucciCenter for Life Nanosciences at La Sapienza, Italian Institute of Technology, viale Regina Elena, Roma, Italy.
Dieter KranzlmüllerLeibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Boltzmannstrasse 1, Garching bei München 85748, Germany.
Gerald MathiasLeibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Boltzmannstrasse 1, Garching bei München 85748, Germany.
David WiflingLeibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Boltzmannstrasse 1, Garching bei München 85748, Germany.
Yann DononOpenLab, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.
Alberto Di MeglioOpenLab, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.
Sofia VallecorsaOpenLab, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.
Heng MaData Science and Learning Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL 60439, USA.
Anda TrifanData Science and Learning Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL 60439, USA.
Arvind RamanathanData Science and Learning Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL 60439, USA.
Tom BrettinComputing, Environment and Life Sciences Directorate, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL 60439, USA.
Alexander PartinData Science and Learning Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL 60439, USA.
Fangfang XiaData Science and Learning Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL 60439, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6567-0564
Xiaotan DuanDepartment of Computer Science, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Rick StevensComputing, Environment and Life Sciences Directorate, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL 60439, USA.
Peter V CoveneyCentre for Computational Science, University College London, Gordon Street, London WC1H 0AJ, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-8787-7256

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The race to meet the challenges of the global pandemic has served as a reminder that the existing drug discovery process is expensive, inefficient and slow. There is a major bottleneck screening the vast number of potential small molecules to shortlist lead compounds for antiviral drug development. New opportunities to accelerate drug discovery lie at the interface between machine learning methods, in this case, developed for linear accelerators, and physics-based methods. The two

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artificial intelligencefree energy predictionsmachine learningmolecular dynamicsnovel drug design

Identifiers

PMID34956592
PMCPMC8504892

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