> indexing all open research with free unlimited access, similar to arxiv-sanity.com but better
This space is pretty crowded, in my opinion.
I don’t know much about biology, but I can tell you that in materials, it’s all about data. The materials design problem and predicting new materials comes down to knowing properties of other materials. A lot of progress has been made by using datasets generated by quantum mechanical calculations by the Materials Project, OQMD, AFLOW and NOMAD, but materials design is tricky because what we want to predict are the outliers that we haven’t seen yet: materials with the highest strength, etc..
There’s value to be created for materials researchers by curating experimental data in a digital, usable form, since so much is locked up in papers, but you really need domain expertise for this and there’s another problem that the experiments are so sparse and have so many features (chemistry, microstructure, thermal history, etc) that people have really only been successful when focusing on particular classes of materials.
This space is pretty crowded, in my opinion.
I don’t know much about biology, but I can tell you that in materials, it’s all about data. The materials design problem and predicting new materials comes down to knowing properties of other materials. A lot of progress has been made by using datasets generated by quantum mechanical calculations by the Materials Project, OQMD, AFLOW and NOMAD, but materials design is tricky because what we want to predict are the outliers that we haven’t seen yet: materials with the highest strength, etc..
There’s value to be created for materials researchers by curating experimental data in a digital, usable form, since so much is locked up in papers, but you really need domain expertise for this and there’s another problem that the experiments are so sparse and have so many features (chemistry, microstructure, thermal history, etc) that people have really only been successful when focusing on particular classes of materials.