EP 312 Lee Cronin on Automating Chemistry
Jim talks with Lee Cronin about Chemify, his startup that aims to automate chemistry through "chemifarms" that turn code into molecules. They discuss the development of the ChemChi programming language & its evolution to Turing completeness, quantum vs classical chemistry computation, open source tools & academic access, robotics & automation in chemistry, catalyst discovery & optimization, integration with tools like AlphaFold, business models & venture capital funding, supply chain implications & distributed manufacturing, personalized medicine possibilities, and much more.