Most pharmaceuticals are naturally occurring, either directly or indirectly. Yet when it comes to cataloging all of proteins and enzymes that have evolved on Earth over the past 4 billion years, human knowledge barely scratches the surface. That’s why a company called Basecamp Research is bringing together graph and AI technologies to expand the scope of human knowledge and accelerate drug discovery.
Basecamp Research was founded in 2019 by Glen Gowers and Oliver Vince with the goal of accelerating data-driven breakthroughs in pharmaceutical research. The two biologists with PhDs from Oxford University were frustrated by the lack of progress in bringing field data into the lab to fuel drug discovery, so they decided to found a company to address it.
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