Informatics is a whole new approach to solving chemical problems. We talk big data, machine learning and dogs.

We review a chemistry machine learning competition and talk to Professor Jeremy Frey, from the University of Southampton, about e-science.

Links:
- https://www.kaggle.com (data science and machine learning)
- https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ci800058v (solubility challenge paper, subscription required)

Credits:
- Support: TMCS, EPSRC
- Theme music: from "Earnest's Understanding" © 2017 Charles Ormrod