AI is not the beginning of drug discovery — it is the accelerator

Artificial intelligence is often framed as the technology that suddenly changed drug discovery. But that narrative misses an important truth: computational, or in silico, drug discovery did not begin with AI. It has been part of pharmaceutical research for decades. Long before today’s large models and generative systems, scientists were already using molecular docking, QSAR […] The post AI is not the beginning of drug discovery — it is the accelerator appeared first on e27 .