Industrializing AI-powered drug discovery: lessons learned from the computing platform.

Introduction: As a mid-size international pharmaceutical company, we initiated 4 years ago the launch of a dedicated high-throughput computing platform supporting drug discovery. The platform named ' was built up on the initial predicate to capitalize on our proprietary data while leveraging public data sources in order to foster a Computational Precision Medicine approach with the power of artificial intelligence.

Areas Covered: Specifically, is designed to identify novel therapeutic target candidates. With several successful use cases in immuno-inflammatory diseases, and current ongoing extension to applications to oncology and neurology, we document how this industrial computational platform has had a transformational impact on our R&D, making it more competitive, as well time and cost effective through a model-based educated selection of therapeutic targets and drug candidates.

Expert Opinion: We report our achievements, but also our challenges in implementing data access and governance processes, building up hardware and user interfaces, and acculturing scientists to use predictive models to inform decisions.