AI revolutionizes microbial experimentation with BacterAI.
BacterAI is an automated science platform that maps microbial metabolism without prior knowledge. It learns by converting scientific questions into simple games that it plays with laboratory robots and distills its findings into logical rules that can be interpreted by human scientists. BacterAI was used to learn the amino acid requirements for two oral streptococci and can accelerate when investigating new environments or larger media with up to 39 ingredients.