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ReviewActa pharmaceutica Sinica. B2026

Artificial intelligence in biologic drug discovery: A review of methodological evolution and therapeutic applications.

Jianxin Tang, Daohong Gong, Honglin Li, Shiliang Li

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Review in Acta pharmaceutica Sinica. B, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Jianxin TangInnovation Center for AI and Drug Discovery, School of Pharmacy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China.
Daohong GongInnovation Center for AI and Drug Discovery, School of Pharmacy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China.
Honglin LiInnovation Center for AI and Drug Discovery, School of Pharmacy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China.
Shiliang LiInnovation Center for AI and Drug Discovery, School of Pharmacy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Biologic drugs, primarily comprising proteins and nucleic acids, have emerged as powerful therapeutic modalities; however, their discovery and optimization are often hindered by their inherent complexity. The advent of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly deep learning, is catalyzing a paradigm shift in this field, transitioning it from a process reliant on serendipity and laborious experimentation to a data-driven engineering discipline. This review systematically charts the co-evolution of AI methodologies and their transformative applications across the modern biologic drug development pipeline. We first outline AI's methodological progression, from language models deciphering biological sequence grammar to structure prediction models like AlphaFold making macromolecular folds computationally accessible, and finally to generative models enabling

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Artificial intelligenceBiologic drugsDe novo designDrug delivery systemDrug optimizationGenerative modelsMachine learningNucleic acid therapeutics

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PMID42453397
PMCPMC13366306

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