Singapore, Oct. 23 -- The Australian National University (ANU) has been selected as a recipient of the Google.org Impact Challenge: AI for Science initiative. The research collaboration led by Dr Eli Niktab, Principal AI Engineer at the ANU National Centre for Indigenous Genomics (NCIG), will receive $2.2 million to crack the code of the biology underpinning resistance to chemotherapy drugs.The team is creating a Cytotoxic Resistance Atlas, an open molecular map of cancer cell lines that have been shown to survive chemotherapy. Using a two-tiered AI engine they can pinpoint the genomic mechanism underpinning cancer resistance in tumour samples for hospitals and pathology labs during routine care. The project brings together NCIG and The J...