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Exciting news: OPTIC won GOLD in BELKA Kaggle – a challenge for AI models to predict new medicines using Leash Bio dataset! We placed 8th out of 2,398 participants! https://lnkd.in/gWuYvPM3 Last night, when Leash Bio published the results, I immediately called my co-founder Vlad Vinogradov to tell him how proud I am of what he has accomplished. This was another amazing validation for the AI team we've assembled and the BIOPTIC platform, our proprietary, target-agnostic AI for small molecule hit identification. The goal of the competition was to predict specific binders for three different targets – sEH, BRD4, and HSA. HSA poses a particular challenge with its three distinct binding sites, complicating predictions for traditional structure-based methods like docking. With BIOPTIC AI, in just two weeks, we were able to find a needle in a haystack of 3.6 billion DEL measurements. Takeaway: If you're utilizing DEL for drug discovery, we should talk. The BIOPTIC platform could offer a game-changing way for you to fully exploit the massive datasets you generate and identify viable drug candidates.