Ligand Pharmaceuticals Selects Landing AI's LandingLens Visual Inspection Software Platform to Enhance the Antibody Discovery Platforms

Landing AI announced today that it has entered into a software licensing deal with Ligand Pharmaceuticals Incorporated to integrate LandingLens into Ligand's OmniAb and xPloration antibody discovery platforms. LandingLens is a software platform that offers an end-to-end process for developing, experimenting and delivering AI-powered visual inspection solutions.

The new AI-powered tools enhance Ligand's high-throughput single B cell screening accuracy and throughput in a wide range of complex biological assays, possibly increasing the output of antibodies with desired characteristics in less time.

"Landing AI, led by world-renowned AI pioneer Andrew Ng, is a proven and trusted partner in enabling their clients to achieve the business value of computer vision," says Bob Chen, Ph.D., Ligand Pharmaceuticals' Director, Systems Engineering. "We selected Landing AI because of its unique data-centric approach, which puts collecting high-quality data at the core of AI development. Notably, the LandingLens software platform includes plenty of data preparation tools and features that enable us to create reliable and consistent datasets that we can iterate on over time to improve our existing AI systems continuously."

"Deep learning and AI have emerged as strong technologies for enabling a wide range of vision-based applications. We are happy to be working with Ligand Pharmaceuticals and are dedicated to providing the best tools to assist our customers in unlocking the promise of AI, "said John Reuter, Landing AI's Vice President of Sales.

About Ligand Pharmaceuticals
Ligand is a revenue-generating biopharmaceutical company that focuses on creating or acquiring technologies that aid pharmaceutical companies in discovering new medicines. Ligand's business strategy adds value to stockholders by offering a diverse portfolio of biotech and pharmaceutical product revenue streams backed by an efficient and low corporate cost structure. Ligand's goal is to provide investors with the chance to participate in the biotech industry's promise through a profitable, diversified, and lower-risk business than a typical biotech firm. Ligand's business strategy is built on what the company specializes in drug discovery, early-stage drug development, product reformulation, and partnering. In addition, Ligand collaborates with other pharmaceutical firms to capitalize on their capabilities (late-stage development, regulatory management, and commercialization) to generate revenue.

About AI Landing
Using enablement tools, Landing AI enables clients to realize the business and operational benefits of computer vision. LandingLens, the company's main product, is an enterprise MLOps system that enables end-to-end processes for developing, iterating, and deploying AI-powered visual inspection solutions. As data quality is important to the achievement of production AI systems, LandingLens includes plenty of specially designed data preparation tools and processes to assist users in achieving optimum data accuracy and consistency. Dr. Andrew Ng, the co-founder of Coursera, former chief scientist of Baidu, and founding lead of Google Brain, founded Landing AI, guided by a data-centric AI approach, and is uniquely positioned to help companies successfully move their AI projects from proof-of-concept to full-scale production.