AI has analyzed every chemical reaction ever performed

According to the science magazine Nature, chemists are heralding a new artificial intelligence platform as a significant milestone. The platform has the potential to accelerate the process of drug discovery, and it should be able to make organic chemistry more efficient. The new platform is designed to help chemists to plan the syntheses of small organic molecules. Traditionally, chemists use the process of retrosynthesis, which is an established problem-solving technique whereby target molecules are recursively transformed into increasingly simpler precursors. The goal of retrosynthetic analysis is structural simplification.