IBM Brings AI Retrosynthetic Analysis to the Cloud IBM Research Blog

The future of computing is one of the strongest transformational forces on our planet. Everything we touch has built-in computing capabilities and is generating tremendous volumes of data. The impact is not only speeding up our daily lives, but also more traditional industrial sectors, including chemistry. Last year at the ACS Fall Meeting 2018 in Boston, IBM Research released IBM RXN for Chemistry, a cloud-based app that takes the idea of relating organic chemistry to a language. The magic behind the app is a state-of-the-art neural machine translation method, which can predict the most likely outcome of a chemical reaction using sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) models.