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Frontiers in nonviral delivery of small molecule and genetic drugs, driven by polymer chemistry and machine learning for materials informatics

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CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS
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ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d3cc04705a

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Materials informatics (MI) has the potential to accelerate innovation and new product development in biotechnology, but the scarcity of large and standardized materials data is a major obstacle. Advances in polymer-based therapeutic delivery platforms provide ideal use-cases for machine learning to understand molecular interactions involved in drug protection and delivery.
Materials informatics (MI) has immense potential to accelerate the pace of innovation and new product development in biotechnology. Close collaborations between skilled physical and life scientists with data scientists are being established in pursuit of leveraging MI tools in automation and artificial intelligence (AI) to predict material properties in vitro and in vivo. However, the scarcity of large, standardized, and labeled materials data for connecting structure-function relationships represents one of the largest hurdles to overcome. In this Highlight, focus is brought to emerging developments in polymer-based therapeutic delivery platforms, where teams generate large experimental datasets around specific therapeutics and successfully establish a design-to-deployment cycle of specialized nanocarriers. Three select collaborations demonstrate how custom-built polymers protect and deliver small molecules, nucleic acids, and proteins, representing ideal use-cases for machine learning to understand how molecular-level interactions impact drug stabilization and release. We conclude with our perspectives on how MI innovations in automation efficiencies and digitalization of data-coupled with fundamental insight and creativity from the polymer science community-can accelerate translation of more gene therapies into lifesaving medicines. Materials informatics (MI) has immense potential to accelerate the pace of innovation and new product development for polymer-based therapeutic delivery platforms in biotechnology.

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