While large language models have been around for a while, OpenAI's ChatGPT has sparked unprecedented interest in their application in diverse domains, including problems in drug discovery.
In these early days, ChatGPT and similar models are showing promising signs:
- of applications in information extraction,
- authoring scientific text,
- prediction of hypothesis, and
- predicting chemical entities.
Written in collab with Fierce Biotech, the whitepaper discusses the potential and possibilities the model can bring to make drug research a less laborious process. Here we demystify it’s underlying technology, hypothesize on it’s applications in various steps of discovery and discuss limitations.