Google Antigravity Launches Cheminformatics Skills to Accelerate Drug Discovery

Google DeepMind has introduced 'Cheminformatics Skills' for Google Antigravity, combining large language models with deterministic chemical tools like RDKit to screen thousands of compounds and design novel molecules in about an hour. This tool drastically compresses the preliminary drug discovery timeline—cutting processes that previously took days down to an hour—by automating literature retrieval, data cleaning, and molecular design. In a lung cancer drug demonstration, the AI analyzed 568 compounds from public databases like ChEMBL and PubChem, identified structural optimization opportunities, and designed macrocyclic candidates with synthesis proposals.