Dr. Cherkasov's group uses novel AI-based platform to identify potential COVID-19 drugs

In response to the rapidly emerging COVID-19 global health emergency, Dr. Cherkasov's group has utilized their novel AI-based platform, Deep Docking (DD), with the recently published structure of the COVID-19 Mpro target. They applied DD to process 1.3 billion compounds and within a week had identified the top 1000 potential ligands.

Without AI augmentation, this same work would have taken up to three years.

They have made the compound list publicly available for further characterization and development by the scientific community.