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Course Logistics

Grading

Grading: Your grade will be based on two parts: course project (80%) and discussion in four research showcase lectures (5% each, 20% in total). There is no credit given for attending other lectures that are offered by the instructor. There is no exam. There is no homework.

Guest lectures: 45-minute invited presentation about ongoing AI for medicine research in the Allen School (see schedule below). The instructor will then lead the discussion about the potential improvement and future directions.

Projects:

  • Option 1. Literature review (AI for drug discovery). Review 3-5 papers in AI for drug discovery/medicine in NeurIPS/ICML/ICLR in the past five years.
  • Option 2. A project related to AI for medicine/drug discovery. Any topic is fine.
  • Grading the project: Mid-term presentation (20%). Final presentation (20%). Final project report (40%). These add up to 80% in total.
  • Tentative Schedule

    Date Theme Reading/Content in Drug discovery Reading/Content in Machine learning Slides
    AI for Drug Discovery
    9/29 Overview of drug discovery pipeline. Deep learning for DDR1 inhibitors
    Another AI Drug Announcement
    10/06 Precision medicine Multi-omics data integration (Unpaired) data integration, Batch correction
    10/13 Graph-based drug discovery Modeling polypharmacy side effects with graph convolutional networks
    Drug repositioning by integrating target information through a heterogeneous network model
    Neural Message Passing for Quantum Chemistry
    10/20 Structure-based drug discovery Protein Docking, Drug Binding Structure Prediction, Molecular 3D Conformer E(n) Equivariant Graph Neural Networks
    EQUIBIND: Geometric Deep Learning for Drug Binding Structure Prediction
    INDEPENDENT SE(3)-EQUIVARIANT MODELS FOR END-TO-END RIGID PROTEIN DOCKING
    10/27 Mid-term project presentation
    AI for medicine
    11/03 Algorithm for medicine First half: Research showcase (gene expression time series analysis)
    Second half: Algorithm for medicine (sequence analysis)
    11/10 Algorithm for medicine First half: Research showcase (text generation in biomedicine)
    Second half: Natural language processing for medicine
    11/17 Algorithm for medicine First half: Research showcase (hi-c super-resolution)
    Second half: Computer vision for medicine
    12/01 Algorithm for medicine First half: Research showcase (protein design)
    Second half: Graph analysis for medicine
    12/08 Final project presentation