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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Protein Biochemist” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #99 of 702. Estimated risk: 2.7%

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AI Exposure Risk

62%

“Protein Biochemist” 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%

“Protein Biochemist” 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

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

  • Prepare reports or recommendations, based upon research outcomes.

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

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

  • Prepare pharmaceutical compounds for commercial distribution.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Write grant proposals to obtain funding for research.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Determine the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules.

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

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

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

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

Technologies & Software

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

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