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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

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

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

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

  • Determine the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules.

  • 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.

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

  • Prepare reports or recommendations, based upon research outcomes.

  • Prepare pharmaceutical compounds for commercial distribution.

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

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

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

  • Write grant proposals to obtain funding for research.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Technologies & Software

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

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