In June, Microsoft available new Azure Machine Learning (ML) courses at Udacity, providing open source tools and frameworks such as PyTorch to build complex ML solutions. Last week at Ignite, Microsoft Power BI CVP Arun Ulag mentioned the importance of Azure ML services in building end-to-end systems.
Today, the biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca provided information on how it uses Azure ML and PyTorch to accelerate research into new drug development.
The team believes that machine learning is the key to analyzing data to find relevant connections, so it used a knowledge-based graph approach to understand the relationship between contextual scientific data networks.
Τα μέλη της επεξεργασίας της φυσικής γλώσσας (NLP από το natural language processing) προτίμησαν το PyTorch framework for the construction of various models, following the latest research.
Combined with Azure ML, they created recommendation systems that can be used to map nodes in the knowledge graph to numerical data. These systems are then used to train use-case models in a coherent manner through the advanced capabilities Azure ML compute.
A recent document AstraZeneca compares the performance of the model under different conditions. The company uses Azure Blob storage to handle the vast amounts of data required.
Similarly, end-to-end lifecycle management for the entire machine learning process is also facilitated through the Azure ML, as shown in the figure above, accelerating iterations and the model development process.
The models constructed using these approaches are ultimately used to discover and propose “potential new and novel drug targets” in a faster and more accurate manner.
In the future, the company plans to continue to expand its knowledge chart - applying machine learning through the aforementioned platforms, with the ultimate goal of building new drugs in the healthcare industry more efficiently.
