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A novel methodology for simulation and prediction of medicine solubility in supercritical solvent was developed based on supervised learning algorithms for classification of the data. The data for the simulations were collected on solubility of a model drug in supercritical carbon dioxide. The supercritical-based processing is usually used for preparation of nanomedicine with enhanced bioavailability, and the developed simulation method can help design and optimize the process for industrial applications. The data was obtained with temperature and pressure as the input parameters, whereas the drug solubility is considered as sole estimated output in the model. The validation outputs indicated that great agreement was obtained between the measured data and the simulated values with acceptable regression coefficient for the whole simulations. 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