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What Were the Biggest Advances in Life Sciences in 2020?
Posted on February 8th, 2021 by Ann-Marie Roche in Pharma R&D
As we settle into a new year, it’s always good to take a moment to consider what was accomplished in the previous one. That’s why we asked members of Elsevier’s Life Sciences team what they felt were among the most noteworthy advances in the life sciences in 2020.
(more…)Future of Pharma and RELX Reports Highlight Importance of Tech
Posted on January 29th, 2021 by Ann-Marie Roche in Pharma R&D
Innovation in pharmaceutical R&D is inextricably tied to technological advancement. Two recently-released reports further highlight how much success in pharma is now being driven by groundbreaking tech.
(more…)Bringing Scalability Into Chemistry Modeling
Posted on November 18th, 2020 by Ani Marrs in Chemistry
Synthetic chemistry has been with us for centuries, but it is now entering a new frontier. Big data, AI and machine learning are unlocking a predictive power that is transforming the conceptualization and optimization of synthetic routes.
(more…)Extracting Relevant Chemical Information from Patents with Machine Learning
Posted on October 5th, 2020 by Xuanyan Xu in Chemistry
New chemical compounds and reactions are often introduced to the world – and with little fanfare – through patents. It may be years after the patent has been filed before these compounds are published in scholarly journals, and even then it is only a small share of them that are published at all. As a result, it can be easy for these compounds to remain unknown to researchers who may be very interested in them.
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