SLAS Journals Presents: Summer School

Welcome to the SLAS Journals Summer School Series! Imagine the best parts of summer camp, where SLAS teachers condense long lectures into short, insightful lessons. Watch each ‘class’ wherever you want, like on a boat or poolside! Each class features new research topics from authors, researchers, and other friends of the SLAS Journals. Real science, no lecture halls, and no homework.

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Class 1 | Building AI Tools for Non-Programmers

Taught by Raminderpal Singh, PhD (20/15 Visioneers, HitchhikersAI)

In our first episode of this limited series, we introduce "Professor Singh" (Raminderpal Singh, PhD), and his trusty pal “Fred,” an AI agent he built out of the need to gather insights from his never-ending piles of complex data. Professor Singh’s lesson is simple: AI doesn’t need to feel overwhelming; you don't have to be a software engineer to start building useful tools. With curiosity, the right AI partner and a willingness to experiment, researchers can take greater control of their own scientific workflows.

Whether you're AI-curious or already exploring what's possible, this five-minute lesson offers a simple example of how AI is changing the way complex research gets done.

Class Notes:

• SLAS Discovery Special Issue | Real-Life Case Studies in AI-Driven Drug Discovery Workflows
  This Special Issue invites original research, reviews and perspectives documenting the real-world implementation of AI and machine learning across drug discovery workflows. Rather than novel algorithms or theoretical projections, we seek case studies that report on what happened when AI was deployed in practice — from target identification and validation through screening, hit identification, lead optimization and ADME prediction.
• Meet Fred | visit https://www.projectfred.dev/ to see how Fred works!
• Professor Singh | View https://raminderpalsingh.com/ for resources from this class