Digital drug intelligence based on AI
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Artificial Intelligence is the branch of computer science which elaborates all the sectors in science and technology from Fundamental engineering to medicinal science. This review focused on different techniques and different types of technologies such as Activity relationship technologies, virtual screening, support vector machines, Recurrent Neural network including various different parameters. Pharmaceutical industry used AI for designing plan of treatment and helps in people health care. They reduce human work by using different tools while there are various challenges faces to work on AI.
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Corresponding author: Pratiksha Rajeshwar Bodke Copyright © 2025 Author(s) retain the copyright of this article. This article is published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Liscense 4.0. Digital drug intelligence based on AI Pratiksha Rajeshwar Bodke *, Shivam Pravin Renge, Apeksha Patole and R. S. Jadhav Under Graduate students, B Pharmacy, PRES, Institute of Pharmacy, Loni kd. Tal. Rahata Dist. Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, India. World Journal of Biology Pharmacy and Health Sciences, 2025, 21(03), 652-656 Publication history: Received on 08 February 2025; revised on 25 March 2025; accepted on 27 March 2025 Article DOI: https://doi.org/10.30574/wjbphs.2025.21.3.0317 Abstract Artificial Intelligence is the branch of computer science which elaborates all the sectors in science and technology from Fundamental engineering to medicinal science. This review focused on different techniques and different types of technologies such as Activity relationship technologies, virtual screening, support vector machines, Recurrent Neural network including various different parameters. Pharmaceutical industry used AI for designing plan of treatment and helps in people health care. They reduce human work by using different tools while there are various challenges faces to work on AI. Keywords: Activity relationship technology; Drug designing; Development process; Production of medications; Neural Networks 1. Introduction The future of AI in pharmacy is expected to bring transformative changes, including advancement in precision making, generative AI for drug development and enhance patient monitoring. The integration of AI in hypothesis generation represents a significance advancement in computer science research. It will revolutionizing virtual screening in pharmacy by enhancing the efficiency and accuracy of drug discovery processes. Through the application of sophisticated algorithms and data-driven methodologies, researchers can expedite the identification of promising drug candidates with enhanced precision, ultimately contributing to the advancement of therapeutic solutions for patients. When highlighting the field of pharmacy, the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) cannot be ignored due to its vast applications in various aspects of the industry. In the evolution of pharmaceutical medications, AI is utilized to select appropriate bulking agents, choose suitable development techniques, and ensure that parameters are met for optimal yield during the process. [1] In medical management, tasks such as prior authorization, updating patient records, and billing, which are repetitive, can be efficiently handled using AI technology. In future Artificial Intelligence techniques can help for the various works such as Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing, are also employed in opinion research, market research, and value monitoring. This given review discussed the importance significance of Artificial Intelligence in different areas. [2]
World Journal of Biology Pharmacy and Health Sciences, 2025, 21(03), 652-656 653 2. Digital Therapy/ Personalized treatment 2.1. Radiotherapy • Retina • Cancer • Other Chronic Disorders 2.2. Drug Discovery The process of discovering effective new drugs is challenging and largely the most difficult aspect of drug development. [3] 2.3. Forecasting of epidemic/ pandemic The accuracy of forecasts made before the peak of the epidemic largely relies on obtaining valid parameter estimates. [4] There are various Artificial Intelligence-based quantitative structures, such as: • Activity relationship technologies: This powerful technology is used in drug discovery to guide the possession or combination of desirable new compounds, as well as to further characterize existing molecules. used to forecast various biological activity from molecular structure. Figure 1 Activity relationship technologies Figure 2 Virtual Screening
World Journal of Biology Pharmacy and Health Sciences, 2025, 21(03), 652-656 654 • Virtual screening: It can also optimize the molecular pharmacokinetic properties and toxicity of natural products, thereby increasing the probability of successful drug discovery. By using computational programs, virtual screening can rapidly evaluate a large number of compounds and natural products at a lower cost. • Support vector machines: The support vector machine (SVM) algorithm is one of the most widely used machine learning (ML) methods for predicting active compounds and molecular properties. In chemo informatics and drug discovery, SVM has been a state-of-the-art ML approach for over a decade. Figure 3 Support vector Machine • Recurrent Neural network: Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are a class of artificial neural networks designed for sequential data processing. Unlike feedforward neural networks, which process data in a single pass, RNNs process data across multiple time steps, making them well-suited for modelling and processing text, speech, and other sequential data. Figure 4 Recurrent Neural Network 3. Applications of artificial intelligence in pharmacy • Treatment plan designing: The effective design of treatment plans in pharmacy is achieved with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) technology. There are various patients with critical health conditions where proper treatment planning becomes challenging. In such cases, AI technology plays a crucial role in overcoming these difficulties. AI suggests various approaches to treatment planning based on previous patient data, medical reports, and clinical expertise. For example, IBM Watson for Oncology is a software program based on AI technology. It serves as an advanced analytical support system that examines patient data and recommends treatment plans by comparing them with hundreds of historical cases. This demonstrates how AI technology contributes to treatment planning in the field of pharmacy.
World Journal of Biology Pharmacy and Health Sciences, 2025, 21(03), 652-656 655 • Drug Creations: The evolution and development of pharmaceutical drugs have taken many years and consumed billions of rupees. However, with the use of artificial intelligence (AI) technology in drug creation, supercomputers are utilized to design various types of drugs. Through AI-driven analysis of multiple atomic structures, researchers can identify effective therapies. This demonstrates how AI plays a crucial role in drug development, helping to discover treatments for various diseases. • AI helps people in the health care system: In 2016, the Open Artificial Intelligence Ecosystem was recognized as one of the top 10 promising technologies. It played a crucial role in comparing and collecting information related to social consciousness descriptions. [5] 4. Artificial intelligence tools in pharmacy There are various Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools used in the field of pharmacy that significantly reduce human effort, simplify tasks, and save time through efficient techniques. 4.1. Drug development Figure 5 Drug Development AI has the capability to transform the drug discovery process, enhancing efficiency and precision while speeding up drug development. [6] • Preclinical Research Preclinical research acts as a bridge to therapeutic intervention, enabling large-scale evaluation of new ideas, drugs, techniques, or technologies before their use in human participants, thereby enhancing the chances of successful clinical trials and implementation. [7] • Clinical Research Clinical trials play a crucial role in developing new medical treatments, but they often involve risks such as patient mortality, adverse events, and enrolment failures, which can lead to the loss of significant efforts over a decade or more. [8] • FDA Review: An FDA-cleared artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm incorrectly identified a finding as an intracranial haemorrhage in a patient who was ultimately diagnosed with an ischemic stroke. This case underscores a critical failure mode of AI tools, highlighting the significance of human-machine interaction. [9] • The Customer services: Customer service satisfaction with an outpatient pharmacy service at a VA medical centre improved following the implementation of several quality-improvement initiatives. [10] • Workflow Automation: Workflow management systems, a relatively new technology, are developed to enhance efficiency, integrate diverse application systems, and facilitate interorganizational processes in electronic commerce applications. [11] 5. Current pharmaceutical challenges and the role of artificial intelligence: In various pharmaceutical industries, extensive research on micro molecules is conducted to optimize medication production, ultimately leading to greater consumer satisfaction due to positive results. The treatment of rare diseases using micro molecules faces competition from genetic molecules, requiring extensive compound data, along with multiple clinical trials, for successful initiation.
World Journal of Biology Pharmacy and Health Sciences, 2025, 21(03), 652-656 656 Biomolecules are rapidly advancing in the pharmaceutical industry. These large molecules, primarily composed of amino acids from protein sources, have led to highly successful products such as insulin and albumins. For biomolecules, pharmacokinetics plays a crucial role, though they are highly complex, and infusion is the preferred route of administration. The development of these molecules and the study of their pharmacokinetics present significant challenges. However, with the help of new technologies, human expertise is leveraged for issue analysis, effective decision-making, and crossverification. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is capable of solving these complex tasks, reducing human workload and enhancing efficiency. [12] 6. Conclusion Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the pharmaceutical field enables the use of advanced machines, reducing human effort in medicinal processes. AI tools help accelerate the production of medicines in pharmaceutical industries, allowing for increased efficiency in a shorter time due to this advanced technology. Compliance with ethical standards Disclosure of conflict of interest No conflict of interest to be disclosed. References [1] Bajwa J, Munir U, Nori A, Williams B. Artificial intelligence in healthcare: transforming the practice of medicine. Future healthcare journal. 2021 Jul 1;8(2):e188-94. [2] Bhattamisra SK, Banerjee P, Gupta P, Mayuren J, Patra S, Candasamy M. Artificial intelligence in pharmaceutical and healthcare research. Big Data and Cognitive Computing. 2023 Jan 11;7(1):10 [3] Mak KK, Pichika MR. Artificial intelligence in drug development: present status and future prospects. Drug discovery today. 2019 Mar 1;24(3):773-80. [4] Nishiura H. Real-time forecasting of an epidemic using a discrete time stochastic model: a case study of pandemic influenza (H1N1-2009). Biomedical engineering online. 2011 Dec;10:1-6. [5] Raza MA, Aziz S, Noreen M, Saeed A, Anjum I, Ahmed M, Raza SM. Artificial intelligence (AI) in pharmacy: an overview of innovations. INNOVATIONS in pharmacy. 2022;13(2). [6] Blanco-Gonzalez A, Cabezon A, Seco-Gonzalez A, Conde-Torres D, Antelo-Riveiro P, Pineiro A, Garcia-Fandino R. The role of AI in drug discovery: challenges, opportunities, and strategies. Pharmaceuticals. 2023 Jun 18;16(6):891 [7] Nirschl TR, Liu JL, Singla N. Overview of preclinical research. InTranslational Urology 2025 Jan 1 (pp. 21-24). Academic Press. [8] Chen J, Hu Y, Wang Y, Lu Y, Cao X, Lin M, Xu H, Wu J, Xiao C, Sun J, Glass L. Trialbench: Multi-modal artificial intelligence-ready clinical trial datasets. arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.00631. 2024 Jun 30. [9] Zhang K, Khosravi B, Vahdati S, Erickson BJ. FDA review of radiologic AI algorithms: process and challenges. Radiology. 2024 Jan 2;310(1):e230242. [10] Poulin TJ, Bain KT, Balderose BK. Quality-improvement initiatives focused on enhancing customer service in the outpatient pharmacy. American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy. 2015 Sep 1;72(17_Supplement_2):S79-82. [11] Stohr EA, Zhao JL. Workflow automation: Overview and research issues. Information Systems Frontiers. 2001 Sep;3:281-96. [12] Vora LK, Gholap AD, Jetha K, Thakur RR, Solanki HK, Chavda VP. Artificial intelligence in pharmaceutical technology and drug delivery design. Pharmaceutics. 2023 Jul 10;15(7):1916