Creating a Next‑Gen Drug Discovery Solution

Consensus is an ultra‑fast, AI‑powered drug ideation system that simulates an early‑stage medicinal chemistry team in seconds. Instead of producing a single molecule, Consensus generates multiple candidate drug concepts, evaluates them across key pharmaceutical properties, iteratively improves them, and ranks the most promising options for human review.

By leveraging Cerebras’ extreme inference speed, Consensus compresses what traditionally takes researchers days or weeks of back‑and‑forth analysis into a single interactive session that takes seconds.

Why Drug Discovery Needs High Inference

Early-stage drug discovery is about reasoning through thousands of competing constraints at once. A good candidate has to balance biological effectiveness, safety, synthesizability, and chemical stability; most AI systems evaluate these one at a time or in sequence. That’s slow and misses complex trade-offs. High-inference AI lets us evaluate many possibilities in **parallel, compare them intelligently, and narrow down to the strongest options much faster.

Drug ideation requires simultaneous reasoning about:

• Target binding potential
• Toxicity and side-effect risk
• Drug-likeness (solubility, stability)
• Synthetic feasibility
• Novelty vs. existing compounds

We turn what is normally a slow, sequential filtering process into a fast, parallel decision engine. That’s exactly what is needed today.

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Technical Aspects of Consensus

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Model: Llama‑3.3‑70B via Cerebras Cloud SDK

Chemistry: RDKit for structure validation & property calculation

Frontend: Streamlit

Concurrency: asyncio.gather (parallel agent calls, no sequential loops)

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• Generation Agent: Creates initial candidate molecules tailored to the target and design goals.
• Evaluation Agents: Assess each candidate for binding potential, solubility, toxicity, and overall drug-likeness.
• Refinement Agent: Improves candidates based on evaluation feedback, addressing weaknesses and optimizing properties.
• Orchestrator: Coordinates all agents in parallel, tracks molecule versions, aggregates scores, and ranks the final candidates.