Kexin Huang, Payal Chandak, Qianwen Wang, Shreyas Havaldar, Akhil Vaid, Jure Leskovec, Girish N. Nadkarni, Benjamin Scott Glicksberg et al.
Nature Medicine·
2024·
cited by 239
Medicine & Health
Computational Drug Discovery Methods
partially solved
importance 7/10
scale stated
Drug repurposing AI models focus narrowly on diseases that already have drugs, leaving diseases with limited or no treatment options unaddressed.
Qiao Jin, Zifeng Wang, Charalampos S. Floudas, Fangyuan Chen, Changlin Gong, Dara Mark Bracken-Clarke, Elisabetta Xue, Yifan Yang et al.
Nature Communications·
2024·
cited by 283
Medicine & Health
Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
solved
importance 7/10
scale stated
Patient recruitment for clinical trials is challenging; matching patients to eligible trials manually does not scale.
Kai Li, Jifeng Wang, Yuanyuan Song, Ying Wang
Nature Communications·
2023·
cited by 115
Discovering ionic liquids for ionic polymer electrolytes to enable safe, high-energy-density lithium metal batteries.
Milind Jagota, Chengzhong Ye, Carlos Albors, Ruchir Rastogi, Antoine Koehl, Nilah M. Ioannidis, Yun S. Song
Genome biology·
2023·
cited by 67
Most human missense genetic variants have unknown disease effects, leaving clinicians unable to interpret them.
Karan Singhal, Shekoofeh Azizi, Tao Tu, S. Sara Mahdavi, JASON KAI WEI LEE, Hyung Won Chung, Nathan Scales, Ajay Kumar Tanwani et al.
Nature·
2023·
cited by 3,955
Medicine & Health
Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
partially solved
importance 7/10
scale stated
Reliably assessing whether large language models possess real clinical knowledge, beyond limited automated benchmarks.
Hwan‐Jin Song, Soonyoung Roh
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems·
2021·
cited by 44
Radiation parameterization is computationally expensive in operational weather forecasting models, slowing forecasts.
Dongdong Zhang, Samuel Yang, Xiaohui Yuan, Ping Zhang
iScience·
2021·
cited by 189
Medicine & Health
ECG Monitoring and Analysis
ai assisted
importance 7/10
scale stated
Growing ECG exam volumes and a shortage of cardiologists make automatic, accurate arrhythmia diagnosis from 12-lead ECGs necessary.
Ellery Wulczyn, David F. Steiner, Zhaoyang Xu, Apaar Sadhwani, Hongwu Wang, Isabelle Flament-Auvigne, Craig H. Mermel, Po-Hsuan Cameron Chen et al.
PLoS ONE·
2020·
cited by 265
Predicting disease-specific survival risk for cancer patients at diagnosis from histopathology images, where existing staging and clinical variables leave room for better risk stratification.
Jan Zrimec, Christoph S Börlin, Filip Buric, Azam Sheikh Muhammad, Rhongzen Chen, Verena Siewers, Vilhelm Verendel, JENS KVIST NIELSEN et al.
Nature Communications·
2020·
cited by 172
It was unclear how coding and non-coding regions of the gene regulatory structure interact to determine mRNA expression levels.
Marwin Segler, Mark P. Waller
Chemistry - A European Journal·
2017·
cited by 549
Science & Research
Computational Drug Discovery Methods
partially solved
importance 7/10
scale stated
Rule-based expert systems for reaction prediction and retrosynthesis often fail because they ignore molecular context, causing reactivity conflicts.
Details
Source
model: deep neural networks (architecture not fur...
Michael D. Abràmoff, Yiyue Lou, Ali Erginay, Warren Clarida, Ryan E. Amelon, James C. Folk, Meindert Niemeijer
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science·
2016·
cited by 1,095
Automated detection of diabetic retinopathy from fundus images needed improvement; a deep-learning-enhanced algorithm was benchmarked against a consensus reference standard from three US board-certified retinal specialists.
Haoquan Liu, Yiren Jian, Chen Zeng, Yunjie Zhao
Communications Biology·
2025·
cited by 32
Predicting which RNAs bind which proteins is computationally hard, especially for RNAs and proteins with no known data.
Tianlai Chen, Zachary Quinn, Madeleine Dumas, Christina Yi Peng, Lauren Hong, Moises Lopez-Gonzalez, Alexander A. Mestre, Rio Watson et al.
Nature Biotechnology·
2025·
cited by 59
Designing de novo linear peptide binders for disease targets, including 'undruggable' ones, is difficult without stable structural information.
Stefano Romano, Jakob Wirbel, Rebecca Ansorge, Christian Schudoma, Quinten R. Ducarmon, Arjan Narbad, Georg Zeller
Nature Communications·
2025·
cited by 61
Medicine & Health
Gut microbiota and health
partially solved
importance 7/10
scale stated
There was no consensus on which gut microbiome features are associated with Parkinson's disease or how well they can diagnose it across multiple studies.
Sarah M. Griffin, Anthony Wimmers, Christopher S. Velden
Weather and Forecasting·
2024·
cited by 17
Climate & Environment
Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
partially solved
importance 7/10
scale stated
Predicting current intensity and short-term intensity change of tropical cyclones more skillfully than existing operational methods.
Details
Source
model: D-MINT and D-PRINT (convolutional neural n...
Joosep Pata, Eric Wulff, Farouk Mokhtar, David Southwick, Mengke Zhang, Maria Girone, Javier Mauricio Duarte
Communications Physics·
2024·
cited by 9
Physics & Astronomy
Particle Detector Development and Performance
ai assisted
importance 7/10
scale stated
Reconstructing particles efficiently and accurately in the highly granular detectors expected at the High-Luminosity LHC and Future Circular Collider is computationally challenging.
Jack Bruno, Dylan Jervis, Daniel J. Varon, Daniel J. Jacob
Atmospheric measurement techniques·
2024·
cited by 39
Climate & Environment
Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
partially solved
importance 7/10
scale stated
Detecting atmospheric methane plumes and quantifying point-source rates from growing high-resolution satellite imagery is labor-intensive and not scalable.
Jan Ollé, Remmy A. M. Zen, Matteo Ballerini Puviani, Florian Marquardt
npj Quantum Information·
2024·
cited by 23
Physics & Astronomy
Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture
partially solved
importance 7/10
scale stated
Discovering quantum error correction codes and encoding circuits tailored to specific qubit hardware is critical and hard to do manually; prior reinforcement learning approaches were severely limited in scalability.
Jinkui Hao, William Robert Kwapong, Ting Shen, Huazhu Fu, Yanwu Xu, Qinkang Lu, Shouyue Liu, Jiong Zhang et al.
npj Digital Medicine·
2024·
cited by 58
Medicine & Health
Retinal Imaging and Analysis
ai assisted
importance 7/10
scale stated
Alzheimer's disease lacks a simple, affordable early detection method, leaving early-onset AD and mild cognitive impairment hard to identify.
Jintai Chen, Shuai Huang, Ying Zhang, Qing Hua Chang, Yixiao Zhang, Dantong Li, Jia Qiu, Lianting Hu et al.
Nature Communications·
2024·
cited by 76
Detecting congenital heart disease in children early using low-cost, non-invasive pediatric ECG instead of more invasive or expensive methods.
Martin Schmidt, Alessandro Motta, Meike Sievers, Moritz N. Helmstaedter
Nature Methods·
2024·
cited by 30
Reconstructing neuronal networks from 3D electron microscopy data requires costly manual proofreading, especially for thin axons.
Wei Hui Zheng, Qiqige Wuyun, Yang Li, Chengxin Zhang, Lydia Freddolino, Yang Zhang
Nature Methods·
2024·
cited by 130
Protein tertiary and quaternary structure prediction loses accuracy when multiple-sequence alignments (MSAs) are poorly constructed, especially for complexes.
Johannes Bausch, Andrew Senior, Francisco J. H. Heras, Thomas Edlich, Alex Davies, Michael E. Newman, Cody Jones, Kevin J. Satzinger et al.
Nature·
2024·
cited by 90
Physics & Astronomy
Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture
partially solved
importance 7/10
scale stated
Building large-scale quantum computers requires accurately decoding noisy syndrome information from quantum error-correction codes such as the surface code.
Alistair S. Dunham, Pedro Beltrão, Mohammed AlQuraishi
Genome biology·
2023·
cited by 30
The vast space of coding mutations cannot be experimentally characterised, and existing variant effect predictors are computationally intensive and difficult to scale.