THE ML DRUG DISCOVERY STARTUP TRYING REALLY, REALLY HARD TO NOT CHEAT (LEASH BIO)

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Leash Bio is a Utah-based startup that aims to build big datasets of small-molecules x protein interactions and train a model on it, then use the trained model to design a drug. The startup has a nearly pathological design to make sure its models are learning the correct thing. The startup has produced a lot of interesting artifacts from its line of research. This post looks at a few of the discoveries the startup has made.