The company’s AlphaFold platform impressed two years ago, and is now extending its machine learning tech into small-molecule drug discovery with big pharma partners.

Offering a challenging but blossoming free market model, strong academic institutions and an excellent track record in patents, the Swiss Biotech industry is one to watch. 

Clinical genomics company SOPHiA Genetics is integrating new radiomics capabilities to enhance its artificial intelligence (AI) platform SOPHiA, which is already used for analyses of oncology data from liquid biopsy tests. The news marks an increasing trend toward integrating in vivo and in vitro data onto a single diagnostic platform.

Artificial intelligence and machine-learning will be the biggest disrupters in the health care industry, forcing a major shift in how companies innovate and operate, offering physicians unprecedented tools to diagnose and treat patients to improve outcomes and connecting patients like never before through consumer-driven devices. This feature takes a close look at how smaller companies and giants like Abbott, as well as national health care systems, are leveraging the power of AI to expedite innovation and product development in diabetes and other diseases. It highlights some of the latest studies that show how AI is being harnessed to improve imaging analytics, predict hard-to-find risk factors for heart disease and detect cancer, and discusses the critical role tech giants such as IBM, Google and Amazon continue to play in this space.