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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Biological Chemist” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #99 of 702. Estimated risk: 2.7%

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AI Exposure Risk

62%

“Biological Chemist” 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%

“Biological Chemist” 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

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

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

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

  • Prepare pharmaceutical compounds for commercial distribution.

  • Determine the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules.

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

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

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

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

  • Write grant proposals to obtain funding for research.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Prepare reports or recommendations, based upon research outcomes.

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

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

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

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

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

Technologies & Software

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

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