How Digital Chemistry Will Improve Cross-Functional Collaboration In The Biopharma Industry

Contributed Commentary by Prof. Lee Cronin, Founder and CEO, Chemify

November 22, 2024 | Digital chemistry is the term given to recent developments in using digital control and big data approaches for designing molecules, optimizing and controlling chemical reactions, and performing complex chemical processes under digital control with sensor feedback. A fundamental development in digital chemistry is the evolution of the concept of chemputation, which allows chemical reactions to be easily done robotically using a general purpose programming language for chemical synthesis.

Today, the biopharmaceutical industry depends on collaboration to drive innovation and develop new therapies, and digital chemistry—encompassing computational tools, artificial intelligence and a universal, hardware agnostic chemical description language (χDL)—has...