On How AI Needs to Change to Advance the Science of Drug Discovery

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2212.12560v1
• Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2022 19:35:51 GMT
• Title: On How AI Needs to Change to Advance the Science of Drug Discovery
• Authors: Kieran Didi and Matej Ze\v{c}evi\'c
• Abstract summary: We present causal drug discovery as the craft of creating models that ground the process of drug discovery in causal reasoning. In this attention paper, we present causal drug discovery as the craft of creating models that ground the process of drug discovery in causal reasoning.
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• Abstract: Research around AI for Science has seen significant success since the rise of deep learning models over the past decade, even with longstanding challenges such as protein structure prediction. However, this fast development inevitably made their flaws apparent -- especially in domains of reasoning where understanding the cause-effect relationship is important. One such domain is drug discovery, in which such understanding is required to make sense of data otherwise plagued by spurious correlations. Said spuriousness only becomes worse with the ongoing trend of ever-increasing amounts of data in the life sciences and thereby restricts researchers in their ability to understand disease biology and create better therapeutics. Therefore, to advance the science of drug discovery with AI it is becoming necessary to formulate the key problems in the language of causality, which allows the explication of modelling assumptions needed for identifying true cause-effect relationships. In this attention paper, we present causal drug discovery as the craft of creating models that ground the process of drug discovery in causal reasoning.

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