Typically, these are motivated by a conspicuous success, a development program that was driven by the strength of beautiful molecular data, and the canonical example these days is PCSK9, a target which seems to feature an almost unprecedented alignment of human genetics, biomarker, and animal model data.

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Scientists stand on a catwalk that runs through its middle, and wearing 3D glasses look at enormous representations of human brains, molecular bonds, economic data, even the invisible manifestations of quantum physics.

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Pharmacy professors are testing patient data tracking apps, while chemistry ones are using molecular 3-D visualization apps.

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The company claims that its learning algorithms can be used to process data for a wide variety of applications, from predicting the effectiveness of sales promotions to fraud detection to molecular modeling to astronomy.

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