{"id":80799,"date":"2018-07-21T04:42:22","date_gmt":"2018-07-21T11:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/robot-chemist-discovers-new-molecules-and-reactions"},"modified":"2018-07-21T04:42:22","modified_gmt":"2018-07-21T11:42:22","slug":"robot-chemist-discovers-new-molecules-and-reactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/robot-chemist-discovers-new-molecules-and-reactions","title":{"rendered":"Robot chemist discovers new molecules and reactions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/robot-chemist-discovers-new-molecules-and-reactions2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A glimpse at the coming AI researchers. (AI\u2019s that do research).<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A new type of artificial-intelligence-driven chemistry could revolutionise the way molecules are discovered, scientists claim.<\/p>\n<p>In a new paper published today in the journal <i>Nature<\/i>, chemists from the University of Glasgow discuss how they have trained an artificially-intelligent organic chemical synthesis robot to automatically explore a very large number of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/chemical+reactions\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">chemical reactions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Their \u2018self-driving\u2019 system, underpinned by machine learning algorithms, can find new reactions and molecules, allowing a digital-chemical data-driven approach to locating new molecules of interest, rather than being confined to a known database and the normal rules of organic synthesis.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-07-robot-chemist-molecules-reactions.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;07-robot-chemist-molecules-reactions.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A glimpse at the coming AI researchers. (AI\u2019s that do research). A new type of artificial-intelligence-driven chemistry could revolutionise the way molecules are discovered, scientists claim. In a new paper published today in the journal Nature, chemists from the University of Glasgow discuss how they have trained an artificially-intelligent organic chemical synthesis robot to automatically [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}