Title: Chematica could help chemists avoid patented routes
Abstract:Pharmaceutical companies employ teams of lawyers and intellectual property experts to make sure synthetic routes to new molecules can be protected and don't infringe on existing patents. Now the creat...Pharmaceutical companies employ teams of lawyers and intellectual property experts to make sure synthetic routes to new molecules can be protected and don't infringe on existing patents. Now the creators of Chematica, an artificial intelligence–driven retrosynthesis planner, have demonstrated an algorithm they say can help chemists find routes to molecules that avoid what others have already patented (Chem 2019, DOI: 10.1016/j.chempr.2018.12.004). But lawyers aren't sure a computer can handle the subtleties of intellectual property law. Bartosz A. Grzybowski of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology and colleagues developed the Chematica software, which uses machine learning to plot synthetic routes to target molecules using some 50,000 rules of chemical reactions the team taught it. Grzybowski sold Chematica to MilliporeSigma in 2017. Last year, the researchers demonstrated that the program could chart routes to target molecules that chemists could then follow successfully in the lab.Read More
Publication Year: 2019
Publication Date: 2019-01-21
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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