Wednesday, September 1, 2021

NIH funding for literature based discovery

NIH awarded $2.11M grant for University of South Carolina (PI Shtutman) - University of Delaware (PI Safro) collaborative project "Knowledge discovery and machine learning to elucidate the mechanisms of HIV activity and interaction with substance use disorder." This work will leverage our hypothesis generation model AGATHA that is based on information extracted from full MEDLINE. 

https://github.com/IlyaTyagin/AGATHA-C-GP

Here is its recent customization for COVID-19 in which Medline is fused with CORD-19, the dataset of all COVID-19 related papers.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.07631



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