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> Chemistry is a bit late to the game This is not true. In the 80s? 90s? E.J. Corey spearheaded an attempt to create a database of all chemical reactions and
by throwawaymaths 3y ago
> Chemistry is a bit late to the game
This is not true. In the 80s? 90s? E.J. Corey spearheaded an attempt to create a database of all chemical reactions and tried to get programmers to design expert systems to create intelligent chemistry planners. If anything, they were too early to the game.
- jleyank 3y agoI suspect chemistry was playing about with automatic (retro)synthesis way earlier than you think: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/bk-1977-0061.ch001 https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/bk-1977-0061.ch001. I think it was work started in the 60's, and big names worked on it.
- throwawaymaths 3y agoHeh that was the exact paper I was talking about, guess I got the decade wrong
- EGreg 3y agoWasn’t the human genome mapped recently? That’s some of the most relevant (to us) chemistry In fact biochemistry is a data science AND also programming. It’s not von neumann architecture, but it’s far more complex!
- throwawaymaths 3y agoEh, the dimensionality and coupled-ness of the genome makes it a very different big data problem than basically every other big data problem.