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ReviewEmerging topics in life sciences2025

Molecular life sciences in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution: sequencing, multi-omics and artificial intelligence.

Lee Keenan, R Lorna Younger, Paul R Race, Matt Bawn

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Review in Emerging topics in life sciences, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Lee Keenan *School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, U.K.ORCID 0009-0007-0885-1001
R Lorna Younger *School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, U.K.ORCID 0009-0007-6225-5841
Paul R RaceSchool of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, U.K.ORCID 0000-0003-0184-5630
Matt BawnSchool of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, U.K.ORCID 0000-0001-7245-4034

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The onset of the Fourth Industrial Revolution has catalysed a fundamental shift in how research within the molecular life sciences is approached and undertaken. Over the past decade, a multitude of nascent enabling technologies have progressed to maturity and have become irreversibly embedded in laboratory practice. Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a mainstay within the molecular sciences, facilitating major advances across a multitude of sub-disciplines, including synthetic biology, industrial biotechnology and drug discovery. One area where this impact is being particularly felt is within multi-omics, where the marriage of AI with low-cost high-throughput sequencing is delivering unprecedented advances, allowing large and often complex datasets to be deconvoluted on timescales previously considered unimaginable. In this mini-review, we outline how the integration of AI into multi-omics has been realised and forecast future trajectories for research in this important area.

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Artificial IntelligenceBiological Science DisciplinesGenomicsBiotechnologyHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingHumansMultiomicsSynthetic Biologybiotechnologycomputational biochemistryDNA sequencinggenomicstranscriptomics

Identifiers

PMID41385245
PMCPMC12794320

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