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Thursday, November 05 2020 - 10:00
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Cellarity signs up with Excelra for GOSTAR database to enrich its drug discovery platform
HYDERABAD, India and CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 5, 2020 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --

    Excelra [https://www.excelra.com/], a leading global data science & data 
analytics company, and Cellarity, a flagship pioneering company working on the 
development of a new generation of medicines to treat diseases at the level of 
cell behaviours, have today announced an agreement whereby Excelra will provide 
Cellarity access to its Global Online Structure Activity Relationship database 
(GOSTAR). 

    GOSTAR [https://www.excelra.com/discovery/#gostar] is the world's largest 
small molecule medicinal chemistry intelligence platform that encompasses over 
8 million compounds, linking chemical structure to biological, pharmacological 
and therapeutic activities. With a vast knowledge base of 28 million SAR data 
points, GOSTAR equips researchers in the early as well as optimization stages 
of drug discovery.

    Cellarity's drug discovery platform uses high-resolution biological data 
and unique machine learning capabilities to pioneer an entirely new approach to 
drug discovery. Cellarity is designing medicines that target and change cell 
behaviors to unlock treatments in a large number of disease areas. "We are 
looking forward to using high quality annotated GOSTAR data on millions of 
small molecules, while leveraging Cellarity's proprietary AI/ML modules to 
generate predictable drug-like molecules that ultimately guide the design of 
novel Cell Behavior-Targeted therapies. Our preliminary assessment gives us the 
confidence in the utility of GOSTAR database," said Ramakanth Sarabu, Head of 
Chemistry, Cellarity.

    "GOSTAR is a widely used structure activity relationship database in AI/ML 
driven drug discovery programs. We strongly believe that this collaboration 
equips AI/ML and medicinal chemistry researchers at Cellarity to utilize 
curated interactions of millions of small molecules with potential drug targets 
to generate novel compounds with desired pharmacological profiles," said 
Raveendra Dayam, Director, Chemistry Services, Excelra.

About Cellarity: 

    Cellarity is a first-of-its-kind therapeutics company that is discovering 
and developing medicines by studying and altering cell behaviors. Cellarity has 
developed a powerful, generalizable platform harnessing single-cell 
technologies, machine learning and proprietary data models of disease to unveil 
the network state of a given cell. The platform digitizes and quantifies 
cellular behaviors, unravels the network dynamics that govern those behaviors, 
and generates medicines that can direct them. https://cellarity.com/

About Excelra:

    Excelra's data science and data analytics solutions empower innovation in 
life sciences. The Excelra Edge comes from a seamless amalgamation of 
proprietary data assets, domain expertise and data science to accelerate drug 
discovery & development. Visit www.excelra.com

Contact: 
Dorothy Paul- Director Marketing
dorothy.paul@excelra.com 



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Source: Excelra Knowledge Solutions Pvt Ltd

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