Unit 1
6 hrsAI in Natural Products & Pharmacognostic Data Modeling Overview of ML applications in natural products: Representation of crude drug data (morphological, microscopic, phytochemical, chromatographic features) Structuring herbal datasets for predictive modeling Classification models for authentication of crude drugs (authentic vs adulterated) Regression models for prediction of secondary metabolite yield Application of AI in phytochemical screening and prioritization Herb-drug interaction prediction using database-driven approaches Limitations of predictive modeling in natural products.