Neural networks, cloud computing, deep learning, and in silico wizardry are on the cusp of disintermediating pharmaceutical drug discovery, cutting billions of billions off the industry’s cost of new drugs and reducing the time to get new medicines approved to just a few processing cycles. “Software eats biotech”, or so goes this new variant of a decades-old thesis. This time could be different – we could be at the singularity when “humans transcend biology” - but I don’t think so.
