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Veritas In Silico Inc. (Headquarters: Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo; CEO: Shingo Nakamura), a company leveraging its AI drug discovery platform "aibVIS" for mRNA-targeted drug development, has released a manga booklet titled "Tell Me More! Veritas In Silico: What is aibVIS?
". The booklet aims to clearly and engagingly explain the company's complex technologies. Concurrently, the company has introduced its corporate mascot, "Booky-kun", as a guide character featured in the manga.The manga, featuring Booky-kun explaining the company's technologies, is now available on the company's website:https://www.veritasinsilico.com/info/20260714_5837/1. About the Published Manga BookletThe manga booklet explains the company's AI drug discovery platform "aibVIS", highlighting that "aibVIS" is composed of multiple specialized rule-based AI systems integrated with specific rules and expert theories.2. About the Corporate Mascot "Booky-kun""Booky-kun", Veritas In Silico's mascot, is designed as a fluffy yellow character symbolizing a "guardian fairy of Veritas In Silico", as shown in the attached image. Notably, the number "14" on its chest represents the atomic number of silicon (Si), a key semiconductor material essential for computer CPUs and memory. This directly references the company's name "in silico" (meaning "in silicon"), symbolizing the core of the company's mission: using computational science to uncover truth.3. Background and Purpose of the Mascot's CreationVeritas In Silico is a biotech company developing mRNA-targeted therapeutics using its proprietary AI platform "aibVIS". The company's technologies are highly specialized and complex, making them difficult for the general public to understand. Particularly, the company wanted individual investors to grasp the future potential and societal impact of its technology in an accurate and approachable manner. To achieve this, the company decided to create an educational manga booklet to explain its technology in a friendly and understandable way. "Booky-kun" was created as the guide character for this manga, serving as a bridge to deepen public understanding of the company's work.4. About Veritas In SilicoVeritas In Silico integrates AI and biology to pioneer innovative drug discovery. The company's name, "Veritas In Silico", is derived from the Latin phrase "in vino veritas" (truth in wine), reinterpreted as "truth through computational science". The company combines deductive informatics using AI and in silico technologies with experimental biology to realize mRNA-targeted medicines.5. Future DevelopmentsVeritas In Silico will continue its sincere commitment to cutting-edge research and development. "Booky-kun" will continue to deliver information about the company's technologies and research outcomes in an accessible manner across various platforms.We kindly ask for your continued support.[Contact]● Veritas In Silico Website Contact Form: https://www.veritasinsilico.com/contact/