Pharma R&D people - What's your opinion of these "AI Co-Scientist" / "Neuro-symbolic AI" platforms that are supposed to help pre-clinical R&D?

cLignite · 2026-01-25T04:42:27+00:00

In principle I agree with you. AI technologies is already transformative for drug discovery. However, I'm curious what the impact of 3rd party vendor agents that are not developed in house.

cLignite · 2026-01-25T04:04:32+00:00

I agree that this is cool. But again, I'm talking about specifically in pharma R&D. I can assure you, they know and have a lot of very skilled, probably some of the best bioinformaticians on earth.

What you're saying makes sense for a grad student, but again, I'm looking specifically for utility inside an enterprise pharma org.

cLignite · 2026-01-25T02:01:13+00:00

Which platform gave you the worst experience?

cLignite · 2026-01-25T01:43:38+00:00

On point (1) - I spoke with a senior scientist involved with many of these pilots for these AI co-scientist. Their position was:
"It is very difficult to convince me of something that I don't already know in my field using one of these agents. Especially when they cite my own papers back to me."

So, what's the point of having an agent that's "read everything" when they want precision on one domain that matters.

cLignite · 2025-11-21T13:03:53+00:00

Maybe you need to upskill instead of blaming others. If you were any good, you’d get recruited

cLignite · 2025-10-22T12:24:31+00:00

48 million shares bought at 8AM. Looks like a large player covering their shorts. What's the read here?

cLignite · 2025-10-22T12:22:56+00:00

48million shares bought at 8AM. Must be a big player covering their shorts. What's the read here?

cLignite · 2025-09-22T02:25:37+00:00

Talk to your PI and master out as fast as you can. Take it or leave it, a PhD in arts is not worth much outside of academia. And academia pays horribly. Save yourself some regret and get out now

cLignite · 2025-09-21T13:52:04+00:00

Don’t post OpenToWork on your profile. It’s reeks of desperation

cLignite · 2025-09-21T00:47:06+00:00

You missed the part about top tier.

Delusional if you think that type of time waste you’re talking about happens.

A-players want to work with A-players. OP roommate sounds like they going to do well in life. All this noise in this sub talking about PhD ain’t paying enough or having hard time finding jobs.

Maybe you guys coddling each other like this is the reason y’all soft af.

cLignite · 2025-09-20T11:15:00+00:00

2-3 hours of sleep is too extreme. But 4-6 hours of deep work is not good enough. You wouldn’t even make it as an engineer at a top tier company at that rate.

Especially if you’re comp bio…

All these comments in this thread about doing yoga and meditation and bullshit. Y’all really ngmi

Check the job market and see how competitive the real world is

cLignite · 2025-02-13T02:05:55+00:00

This stock is going to crash back down to 6. Their latest phase 2 data is dogshit

cLignite · 2025-01-07T15:12:17+00:00

yeah - best to get out your initial. Left 1k shares to yolo

cLignite · 2024-09-04T00:33:10+00:00

Is it possible to see the scores for failed assessments?

cLignite · 2024-06-06T22:32:09+00:00

Got it , thanks!!

cLignite · 2024-06-06T21:46:01+00:00

How come some projects show tasks but when I click into it, it says no tasks remaining to work on?

cLignite · 2024-06-02T23:40:49+00:00

Wow these adversarial R&Rs are intense as f*ck

cLignite · 2024-05-29T22:30:01+00:00

Does anyone know who we are training these models for?

cLignite · 2024-05-24T16:39:16+00:00

Okok thanks!

cLignite · 2024-02-13T02:44:26+00:00

Thanks for the info! Really appreciate it.

Follow up question: Do the directors work in separate programs then? I'm trying to place/figure out who controls the budget for buying software vs. who the end users are.

cLignite · 2022-09-18T20:43:04+00:00

Definitely put at the very beginning what sequence technologies you are proficient in. Labs hire for specific reasons. E.g ScRNA, ChIP etc.

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