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The results of this study will predict the behavior of the compounds and then develop drugs in laboratories
Four researchers from the group Bioinformatics and High Performance Computing at the Catholic University San Antonio of Murcia are working together with universities in Reykjavik (Iceland) and Alicante, in a project that aims to discover new drug candidates using artificial intelligence techniques.
In this way, and through the blood thinners, the study aims to find patterns between molecules that are known to give good results to identify and apply new anticoagulants.
"It gives the computer a list of known anticoagulant, and he learns the characteristics of each, includes patterns and identifies which ones are good and which are bad," says Horacio Pérez, principal investigator of the project.
"Then new compounds are tested, which have not been previously studied, to check if they have the previously characterized patterns and discover which have anticoagulant functions," he says.
It is a methodology that can be applied to obtain new drug candidates, not just anticoagulants, which will then be developed in the relevant laboratories.
In this sense, Horacio Pérez says that "there are currently several methodologies for drug discovery, but nevertheless most have not fully matured. Moreover, today, few research groups are applying artificial intelligence these contexts. "
It also stresses that "the perspective of this study is that results are useful for the development of drugs for any condition."
Joining him are working teachers José María Cecilia, Andrés Bueno and Antonio Llanes.
Computer for developing new drugs
This is not the only initiative in which teachers and researchers of the Research Group Bioinformatics and High Performance Computing of Computer Engineering UCAM, working for the discovery of new components that allow the development of drugs.
A few months ago, Professor José María Cecilia participated in a study for the development of intelligent applications that take their inspiration in the behavior of biological systems, in particular the behavior of ants, at the University of Illinois (United States) .
In addition, a bill introduced by him and Horacio Pérez for Intel Parallel Computing Centers, international contest for the promotion of research, made the prestigious company Intel betray the UCAM model's most advanced equipment for application development scientific.
Source: UCAM
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