We have updated the Drug Name Recogniser Google Sheets™ plugin to cover molecular mass, chemical formula and SMILES strings.
Link to install the tool: https://fastdatascience.com/ai-in-pharma/drug-name-recogniser
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We have a Python library available which you can find on PyPI and on Github. It’s fully open source with MIT License.
You can install the Python library by typing in the command line:
pip install drug-named-entity-recognition
You can also try the library in your browser on Fast Data Science.
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Fast Data Science are pleased to announce the release Clinical Trial Data Lookup plugin for Google Sheets. It lets you look up data for multiple clinical trials by NCT ID and fills out information such as condition, sponsor, endpoints, or protocol URL in different columns.
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