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Re:AI in drug discovery is overhyped: examples from AstraZen... by FullMtlAlcoholc on Friday January 05, 2018 @07:46PM (#16083081)
>You can not do the same with biology - no student or expert, given unlimited resources, equipment, or reference material can construct a new living cell from scratch (proteins / molecules).

Craig Venter did exactly this.

https://www.nature.com/news/minimal-cell-raises-stakes-in-ra...

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Re:AI in drug discovery is overhyped: examples from AstraZen... by dxhdr on Friday January 05, 2018 @09:48PM (#16083563)
The last paragraph of that article proves the OP's point, you can't do it by working from first principles.

"Even Venter acknowledges that syn3.0’s genome, although new, was designed by trial and error, rather than being based on a fundamental understanding of how to build a functioning genome."

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