Exploring Bacterial Metabolism through Gaming.

BacterAI, an integrated lab automation and machine learning platform, could help overcome the challenges of culturing understudied microorganisms by learning appropriate culture conditions as a game. Currently, fewer than 2% of all microbial species are culturable due to a lack of knowledge about growth requirements and the tedious, labour-intensive experiments that stand in the way of this essential knowledge. BacterAI could be the future of studying microbial diversity and discovering novel bioactive molecules such as antibiotics.