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“The Cavendish Women in Physics have made unparalleled contributions to the Cavendish Laboratory’s extraordinary history of discovery and innovation in Physics and continue to do so.”

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These fields encompass a variety of research groups, each with its own scientific aims and ambitions but united by two common goals:

  • the search for a fundamental understanding of the Universe and the laws which govern it
  • seeking new ways to apply the laws of nature.

Click on each of the themes to learn more about our researchers and their work.

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Contact Details

Email address:
dfb@mrao.cam.ac.uk

Astrophysics Group
Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics
Cavendish Laboratory
JJ Thomson Avenue
Cambridge
CB3 0HE

+44 (0)1223 337302

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Our group has built a range of open-source scientific software tools to serve the AI for Materials global research community, some of which continue to be developed within the research group.

ChemDataExtractor

A ‘chemistry-aware’ text-mining tool that auto-generates custom materials databases from scientific documents.

Online tutorials and documentation | Source code on GitHub

PDFDataExtractor

A tool for reading scientific text and interpreting metadata from the typeset literature in the portable document format.

Documentation | Source code on GitHub | Read the paper

ImageDataExtractor

A tool that extracts microscopy images from scientific documents and quantifies particle information in these images, such as particle size, shape and radial distribution.

Project website | Read the paper

ReactionDataExtractor

A tool that extracts 2-D schematic diagrams of chemical reactions from documents and resolves the reactant, product, intermediate(s), reaction conditions and labels.

Read the paper | Source code on GitHub

ChemSchematicResolver

A tool that extracts images of 2-D chemical schematic diagrams from documents, matches each molecule to its label in the diagram, resolving R-groups where present, and converts each molecule into a SMILES text string.

Read the paper | Source code on GitHub

ChemDataWriter

A transformer-based toolkit that employs generative AI to auto-generate books that summarise research.

Documentation | Read the paper | Source code on GitHub

Tormat

A program for the automated structural alignment of molecular conformations. This code was developed via a PhD project in our group that was sponsored by the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, who adopted this program into their core product codebase.

Read the paper