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Editorial

Can artificial intelligence accelerate preclinical drug discovery and precision medicine?

Ali Farnouda Institute of Computational Biology, Helmholtz Center Munich, Munich, GermanyView further author information
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Alexander J. Ohnmachta Institute of Computational Biology, Helmholtz Center Munich, Munich, Germany;b Department of Biology, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Munich, GermanyORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-1481-9426View further author information
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Martin Meinela Institute of Computational Biology, Helmholtz Center Munich, Munich, Germany;c Department of Dermatology and Allergy, Technical University Munich, Munich, GermanyORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-4042-6247View further author information
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Michael P. Mendena Institute of Computational Biology, Helmholtz Center Munich, Munich, Germany;b Department of Biology, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Munich, Germany;d German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD e.V.), Munich, GermanyCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 661-665 | Received 04 Feb 2022, Accepted 13 Jun 2022, Published online: 19 Jun 2022

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