
Listen to the new episode of the Clinical Trial Files podcast, where Karin Avila, Taymeyah Al-Toubah and Thomas Wood of Fast Data Science chat about AI and NLP in pharma, the Clinical Trial Risk Tool, what impact AI can make in clinical trials. This episode commemorates Alan Turing’s 113rd birthday on 23 June 2025.

Drug Name Recogniser Google Sheets plugin update We have updated the Drug Name Recogniser Google Sheets™ plugin to cover molecular mass, chemical formula and SMILES strings.

Harmony: A new AI data tool for Research at the Alan Turing Institute The Harmony project is an Official Partner of AI UK 2025, the UK’s national showcase of data science and artificial intelligence, hosted by The Alan Turing Institute.

Can AI handle legal questions yet? We have compared the capabilities of the older and newer large language models (LLMs) on English and Welsh insolvency law questions, as a continuation of the Insolvency Bot project.

We developed a tool using Natural Language Processing for a client in the pharmaceutical space to assist experts to estimate the risk of a clinical trial ending uninformatively. You can read more about it in our guest article on Clinical Leader.

The Clinical Trial Risk Tool has been featured in a guest column by Thomas Wood, director of Fast Data Science, in Clinical Leader, titled A Tool To Tackle The Risk Of Uninformative Trials, in cooperation with Abby Proch, Executive Editor at Clinical Leader.

Tech Talk: Building AI for Good - Showcase & Meetup at Newspeak House on 23 January 2025 Fast Data Science presented the open source AI tool Harmony at the second Building AI for Good - Showcase & Meetup on 23 January 2025 organised by Newspeak House.

Above: video of the AICamp meetup in London on 10 December 2024. Harmony starts at 40:00 - the first talk is by Connor Leahy of Conjecture

Image above: the winning teams and participants in the Harmony AI hackathon on 3 June 2024 AI Hackathons: A Playground for Innovation What is an AI hackathon? A hackathon is an event that may last for a day or several days where people collaborate to solve a problem. The word “hackathon” is a portmanteau of “hack” and “marathon”. The first hackathon was held in 1999 by OpenBSD in Calgary, Canada[1]. Initially, hackathons were used for software development problems, but now organisations are running hackathons for a much more eclectic range of tasks, such as planning the marketing strategy of a nonprofit, and now there are AI hackathons.
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