AI Best Practices Group 13 Dec 2017 Action Minutes

Date

Notes Nick Lynch (Unlicensed)

Attendees

  • Andrew Conkie, Carlos Faerman , Mark Roberts, Frederik Broek ,Chris Morris, Jens Hoefkens Peter Henstock, Kostas Vougas, Terry Stouch, Ted Slater, Nick Lynch

Goals

  • Support the awareness and adoption of AI within Life Science

  • What could help groups get started with their strategy and looking ahead

  • Avoiding pitfalls
    • Model use best practice (examples good & bad)

  • What could help those further ahead with adoption

  • How can we utilise learnings from other industries

Presentation Material

PPt from meeting

Timing:

To select best practice goals (possible exemplar business use case(s)) and create a business case(s) for funding by mid Feb 2018 to present at London Conference

Discussion items

ItemSummary
Use Cases

Failed Clinical Trials

Persuasive models, QSPR

Use Case (Chris): druglikeness. With larger datasets, it will be possible to provide a better molecule quality indicator than RO5 or QED. Public data is available from the point of USAN assignment, but not at the hit to lead stage when triage is most important. With suitable methods for ensuring confidentiality of individual molecules, it will be possible to collaborate on a shared model. 

ImplementationSupport those implementing models and a model environment.
ReproducibilityTie the pitfalls to larger issues of Model and Implementation reproducibility
Bad AI award.Make an effort to raise the standard of publication and peer review, by identifying non-reproducible and overfitted results in papers.
Training and training material

Should we develop a wider training course?

Fundamental part of Life Science capability

Who to partner with here? Online Courses (Moots) or add to others (EdX etc)

Partners/collaborators

Toolkit providers

Platform providers

Community sites

Service providers

Be clear about AI definition

Do we also mean Augmented AI

NLP, Machine learning and Neural Networks

Asking Pharma on their AI strategies for training/best practiceHow best to understand current challenges - see some of the survey outputs in community site

Action items

  • Document Areas for AI Community
  • Best Practices Group Folder
  • Working Document
  • Examples of pitfalls approaches: Mark R, Andrew C

    • Short compilation of pitfalls (and especially if there has been an impact or potential impact to data output or decision making)

      • Can we define any metrics 
    • Aim to show the business value a project that would address these issues


  • What would best pratices look like: - Peter H
    • How would this best practices look from the customer side?
  • Literature Examples/Signposting - Jabe, Carlos, Frederik, Lena
    • How best to draw on existing sites and communities?
    • What is different about Pistoia Alliance approach