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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Research Biochemist” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #99 of 702. Estimated risk: 2.7%

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AI Exposure Risk

62%

“Research 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%

“Research 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Write grant proposals to obtain funding for research.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Prepare pharmaceutical compounds for commercial distribution.

  • Determine the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules.

  • 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.

  • Prepare reports or recommendations, based upon research outcomes.

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

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

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

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

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

Technologies & Software

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

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