Microsoft Research publishes RetroChimera for retrosynthesis prediction at industrial scale
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Microsoft Research announced RetroChimera, a retrosynthesis model covered in a new Nature paper, aimed at predicting how to actually make custom small molecules for medicine, materials and agriculture rather than just proposing structures. The blog frames synthesis planning, not molecule design, as the slow and expensive step the model targets. This is a first-party announcement of a peer-reviewed result; the blog post does not carry the head-to-head accuracy figures, which are in the paper.