New machine learning techniques boost predictions for virtual drug screening with less data
Schmidt Center researchers have found a way to improve kernel methods, which are a simpler alternative to neural networks, for biomedical applications.
September 10, 2023

Credit: Susanna Hamilton, Broad Communications
Funding
Support for this research was provided in part by the Office of Naval Research, National Science Foundation, National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, MIT J-Clinic for Machine Learning and Health, the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center at the Broad Institute, and a Simons Investigator Award.
Paper cited
Radhakrishnan A, et al. Transfer learning with kernel methods. Nature Communications. Online September 9, 2023. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-41215-8