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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Biochemistry Scientist” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #99 of 702. Estimated risk: 2.7%

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AI Exposure Risk

62%

“Biochemistry Scientist” will maybe be replaced by AI.

Based on the cognitive demands, communication requirements, and logical reasoning intrinsic to this occupation according to O*NET data, we project a 62% probability of disruption by generative AI and Large Language Models.

Automation & Robot Risk

47%

“Biochemistry Scientist” will probably not be replaced by robots.

Evaluating the physical dexterity, repetitive motion tasks, and manual labor associated with this role, our analysis indicates a 47% likelihood of substitution by advanced robotics systems.

Personal & Financial Insights

Every occupation has a unique profile. For Biochemists and Biophysicists, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and O*NET classify the day-to-day work broadly as: Study the chemical composition or physical principles of living cells and organisms, their electrical and mechanical energy, and related phenomena. May conduct research to further understanding of the complex chemical combinations and reactions involved in metabolism, reproduction, growth, and heredity. May determine the effects of foods, drugs, serums, hormones, and other substances on tissues and vital processes of living organisms.

Avg. Annual Salary $115,570
Avg. Hourly Wage $55.56
Available Jobs (US) 34,520
Job Title & Hierarchy Code (SOC) Biochemists and Biophysicists #19-1021
Wage vs. National Median
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Data is based on the reference occupation: “Biochemists and Biophysicists”

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Core Skills & Abilities

  • Teach or advise undergraduate or graduate students or supervise their research.

  • Develop new methods to study the mechanisms of biological processes.

  • Develop methods to process, store, or use foods, drugs, or chemical compounds.

  • Isolate, analyze, or synthesize vitamins, hormones, allergens, minerals, or enzymes and determine their effects on body functions.

  • Research transformations of substances in cells, using atomic isotopes.

  • Study the chemistry of living processes, such as cell development, breathing and digestion, or living energy changes, such as growth, aging, or death.

  • Prepare pharmaceutical compounds for commercial distribution.

  • Share research findings by writing scientific articles or by making presentations at scientific conferences.

  • Investigate the nature, composition, or expression of genes or research how genetic engineering can impact these processes.

  • Study physical principles of living cells or organisms and their electrical or mechanical energy, applying methods and knowledge of mathematics, physics, chemistry, or biology.

  • Determine the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules.

  • Design or build laboratory equipment needed for special research projects.

  • Develop or test new drugs or medications intended for commercial distribution.

  • Prepare reports or recommendations, based upon research outcomes.

  • Write grant proposals to obtain funding for research.

  • Research how characteristics of plants or animals are carried through successive generations.

  • Study the mutations in organisms that lead to cancer or other diseases.

  • Design or perform experiments with equipment, such as lasers, accelerators, or mass spectrometers.

  • Study spatial configurations of submicroscopic molecules, such as proteins, using x-rays or electron microscopes.

  • Manage laboratory teams or monitor the quality of a team's work.

  • Examine the molecular or chemical aspects of immune system functioning.

  • Develop or execute tests to detect diseases, genetic disorders, or other abnormalities.

  • Produce pharmaceutically or industrially useful proteins, using recombinant DNA technology.

  • Research the chemical effects of substances, such as drugs, serums, hormones, or food, on tissues or vital processes.

Technologies & Software

  • Presentation software
  • Macroscopic diffusion software
  • Scite AI
  • Genetics computer group GSG software
  • Semichem AMPAC
  • Mistral (Mistral AI)
  • Electronic lab notebook software
  • Microsoft Outlook
  • Word processing software
  • ChatGPT (OpenAI)
  • Internet browser software
  • Gemini for Workspace
  • Python
  • The MathWorks MATLAB
  • DeepSeek
  • SAP software
  • NotebookLM (Google)
  • Molecular simulation software
  • Golden Helix HelixTree
  • Perplexity AI
  • Fujitsu BioMedCache
  • Extensible markup language XML
  • Claude (Anthropic)
  • Perl
  • Molecular Devices Corporation MetaFluor
  • GEPASI
  • Basic Local Alignment Search Tool BLAST
  • Semantic Scholar AI
  • JustBio SeqPainter
  • ESRI What if?
  • Microsoft Office software
  • Hodgkin-Huxley Model software
  • Linux
  • Accelrys QAUNTA
  • Shrodinger Jaguar
  • Assisted model building with energy refinement AMBER
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Graphics software
  • Molecular Devices Corporation MetaMorph
  • Microsoft Word
  • Dassault Systemes Abaqus
  • Crystallography & NMR System (CNS)
  • Golden Helix ChemTree
  • Intelligent Imaging Innovations SlideBook
  • Llama (Meta)
  • Carrier-mediated transport software
  • Chemistry at Harvard Molecular Mechanics CHARMm
  • R
  • Yet another scientific artificial reality application YASARA software
  • AutoQuant AutoDeblur
  • Kimi (Moonshot AI)
  • SAS
  • Accelrys FELIX
  • ItemTracker
  • PREMIER Biosoft Array Designer
  • Nova (Amazon)
  • Wavefunction Spartan
  • Accelrys Cerius2
  • Fujitsu MOPAC
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Voltage-gated ion channels software
  • Sequence database software
  • Email software
  • Mistral AI (chat/models)
  • Expression DNA and protein sequence software
  • 3D graphics software
  • Laboratory information management system LIMS
  • ChemInnovation Software Chem 4-D
  • IBM SPSS Statistics
  • Elicit
  • Consensus
  • Structure prediction software
  • Multivariate statistical program MVSP software
  • Elsevier MDL ISIS/Draw
  • Docking and ligand binding software
  • Minitab
  • Microsoft Visio
  • Tripos SYBYL
  • Analysis and building software
  • Gaussian software
  • Chang Bioscience ToolKit
  • Grok (xAI)
  • Molecular Simulations WebLab ViewerPro
  • Gemini (Google)
  • Crystallography software
  • Accelrys Insight II
  • Wavefunction Titan
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Qwen (Alibaba)
  • GE Healthcare ImageQuant TL
  • Statistical software
  • Molecular Networks GmbH Biochemical Pathways
  • Video analysis software
  • Laser particle sizers
  • Liquid handling robots
  • Funnels
  • Heat incubators
  • Vibratome tissue sectioning systems
  • Shaking incubators
  • Basic vapor pressure osmometers
  • Positron emission tomography PET scanners
  • Test tubes
  • Growth chambers
  • Optical tweezers
  • Glassware adaptors
  • Microdosimeters
  • Circular dichroism spectroscopes
  • Darkroom equipment
  • Orbital shakers
  • Personal computers
  • Scanners
  • Analytical ultracentrifuges
  • Water baths
  • Heating mantles
  • Flexi-dry lyophilizers
  • Neodymium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet Nd:YAG lasers
  • Gamma ray irradiators
  • Microscope slides
  • pH meters
  • Cell sorters
  • Automatic pipetters
  • Vacuum freezers
  • Top-loading electronic balances
  • Microplate readers
  • Microcentrifuges
  • Homogenizers
  • Filtering funnels
  • Hot plates
  • Flame ionization detectors FID
  • Ultraviolet UV spectroscopes
  • Isothermal titration calorimeters ITC
  • Gas chromatographs GC
  • Magnetic piconewton-force transducers
  • Tabletop centrifuges
  • Dual wavelength spectroscopes
  • Desktop computers
  • Raman difference spectrometers
  • Peptide synthesizers
  • Light scattering devices
  • Thermal imagers
  • Beakers
  • Multichannel detectors
  • Analytical balances
  • Differential scanning calorimeters
  • Electroencephalography EEG equipment
  • Automated electrophoresis equipment
  • Cryogenic freezers
  • Cryotransmission electron microscopes
  • Flow cytometers
  • Solid state diode lasers
  • Graduated cylinders
  • Viscometers
  • High-pressure high-temperature reactors
  • Liquid nuclear magnetic resonance NMR equipment
  • Mettler balances
  • Lasers
  • Water purification units
  • Langmuir balances
  • Automatic x ray film developers
  • Incubators
  • Rheometers
  • Continuous flow centrifuges
  • Erlenmeyer flasks
  • Charge-coupled device CCD cameras
  • Solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance NMR equipment
  • Atomic force microscopes
  • Computerized axial tomography CAT scan equipment
  • Medical magnetic resonance imaging MRI microscopes
  • Nanoscopes
  • Biological safety hoods
  • Laser tweezers
  • Circulating water cooling systems
  • Video positioning equipment
  • Transmission electron microscopes TEM
  • Argon lasers
  • Laminar flow hoods
  • Megafuge centrifuges
  • Electron paramagnetic resonance EPR spectrometers
  • Scanning laser microscopes
  • Spectrofluorimeters
  • Cryocut microtomes
  • Carbon dioxide CO2 incubators
  • Heat blocks
  • Auto gamma counters
  • Laboratory vacuum pumps
  • Confocal microscopes
  • Synchrotrons
  • Multi-angle elastic-light scattering systems
  • Ultrasonic cleaners
  • Freeze dryers
  • Sonicators
  • X ray microscopes
  • Laser Doppler zeta potential analyzers
  • Microphysiometers
  • Fluorescence spectroscopes
  • Phosphorimagers
  • Pasteur pipettes
  • Deoxyribonucleic acid DNA sequencers
  • Specific gravity balances
  • Signal generators
  • Transillumination microscopes
  • Laser induced temperature jump nanosecond relaxation spectrometer systems
  • Fourier transform infrared FTIR spectroscopes
  • Balances
  • Chemical fume hoods
  • Brewster angle microscopes
  • Glassware condensers
  • Rotating anode X ray generators
  • Cryomicroscopes
  • Plotters
  • Microsusceptometers
  • Laboratory convection ovens
  • Power amplifiers
  • Microcalorimeters
  • Ionometers
  • Sapphire lasers
  • Microinjectors
  • Fermenters
  • Krypton lasers
  • Stopped-flow spectrophotometers
  • Gel boxes
  • Ultracentrifuges
  • Electrophoresis power supplies
  • Electron spin resonance spectroscopes
  • Spectropolarimeters
  • Mainframe computers
  • Protein sequencers
  • Sartorius balances
  • Electron microscopes
  • Phosphorimager video cameras
  • Large upright microscopes
  • Spectrophotometers
  • Near-field light microscopes
  • Pipettes
  • Notebook computers
  • Hemoglobin analyzers
  • X ray crystallography equipment
  • Video enhanced differential interference contrast microscopes
  • Cryostat tissue microtomes
  • Scanning electron microscopes SEM
  • Shaking waterbaths
  • Medical magnetic resonance imaging MRI equipment
  • Biofreezers
  • Ultraviolet UV transilluminators
  • Sample concentrators
  • Chemistry analyzers
  • High-pressure liquid chromatographs
  • Mossbauer spectroscopes
  • Nuclear magnetic resonance NMR spectroscopes
  • Ultramicrotomes
  • Mass spectrometers
  • Linear accelerators
  • Inverted microscopes
  • Dichroic beamsplitters
  • Magnetic tweezers
  • Cytospin centrifuges
  • Refrigerated centrifuges
  • Amino acid analyzers
  • Laser printers
  • Binocular light compound microscopes
  • Capillary electrophoresis equipment
  • Autoclaves
  • Scintillation counters

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