“…Materials design, , novel drug discovery, , catalyst optimization, , and clean energy production , are some of the many fields where knowledge has expanded because of ML. Advances in molecular dynamics, in combination with machine learning, have also paved the way for bridging the connection between molecular structure and physical characteristics. , Recent work emphasizes the improved application of FTIR spectroscopy, and more broadly, vibrational spectroscopy, for qualitative and quantitative assignment, especially when combined with ML models. , Takamura and colleagues explored methods to identify donor biological sex from urine samples . They presented several ML applications, including partial least-squares discriminant analysis with and without a genetic algorithm, to explore the chemical information contained in their FTIR spectra.…”