AI Is Nothing Without An AI-Ready Data Strategy

Contributed Commentary by Chris Stumpf, PhD, Revvity Signals

October 25, 2024 | Applied artificial intelligence (AI) is already transforming drug discovery research and development, accelerating the journey from lab to lifesaving therapies, and both the reality and the hype are very well known.

Less obvious—almost 90% of the iceberg—is the critical role played by data. In short, AI is only as powerful as the data it consumes. While there is abundant scientific data in pharmaceuticals and biotechnology, it is often trapped in multiple independent systems, poorly modeled, and hard to access.

Despite the advances already made, it is only by optimizing the ingestion, storage, organization, and maintenance of data...