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Innovative drug discovery powered by nature and AI.

We harness proprietary AI to rapidly screen billions of plant-derived chemicals for promising bioactive properties — turning natural complexity into ranked, actionable candidates for our preclinical programs.

Key metrics

Compound library
2B+

Virtually screenable molecules accessible through our AI pipeline.

Natural compounds
10M+

Plant-derived bioactives indexed for screening.

Higher hit rate
64x

Improvement over the most popular molecular docking software.

Bioactivity prediction efficiency
44.83%

Increase reported in our IEEE DTIGN paper versus baseline.

Small Molecule Discovery Pipeline

Our pipeline is built upon three core modules. This holistic approach allows us to efficiently uncover and develop potent, nature-based compounds, accelerating the journey from discovery to market-ready treatments.

Drug-Target Interaction Graph Neural Network

DTIGN — graph-based bioactivity prediction.

Our DTIGN model is the cornerstone of our AI-driven drug discovery platform. Engineered to accelerate and enhance the prediction of drug-target interactions, DTIGN plays a pivotal role in understanding bioactivity and driving groundbreaking innovations in drug development.

  • · Enhanced hit selection and lead optimisation
  • · Accelerated drug discovery timelines
  • · Exploration of new therapeutic opportunities
  • · Integrates Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), self-attention, and semi-supervised learning

Benchmark

27.03% better than other leading methods

When compared to other leading approaches, DTIGN performs 27.03% better at accurately predicting how strong a drug's effect will be on its target. The model uses pIC₅₀ and pEC₅₀ measurements alongside basic physics priors, learning from a small set of real molecular structures.

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