Life Sciences In Vitro and In Silico: Computations, Artificial Intelligence and Experiments in a Chemoinformatics Laboratory
[Nauki o zhizni in vitro i in silico: vychisleniia, iskusstvennyi intellekt i eksperimenty v khemoinformaticheskoi laboratorii]
Type of publication: Research Article
Submitted: 29.11.2025
Accepted: 10.02.2026
About author(s)
Vladislava Bobrova | https://orcid.org/0009-0007-6473-7887 | vu.bobrova@gmail.com | European University at St. Petersburg (6/1a Gagarinskaya Str., St. Petersburg, 191187, Russia)
Keywords
science and technology studies, STS, sociology of science, laboratory studies, actor-network theory, computational movement, calculation, artificial intelligence
Abstract
The article examines the import of information technologies, particularly AI, into the life sciences. To address the issue of the content of computational research practices, I draw on B. Latour’s actornetwork theory and its extension proposed by M. Callon and F. Muniesa. The ethnography conducted in an operating cheminformatics laboratory demonstrates the complex and hybrid character of computation in the life sciences and challenges the notion of the “paradigm shift”.
Citation
Bobrova, V.U. 2026. Nauki o zhizni in vitro i in silico: vychisleniia, iskusstvennyi intellekt i eksperimenty v khemoinformaticheskoi laboratorii [Life Sciences In Vitro and In Silico: Computations, Artificial Intelligence and Experiments in a Chemoinformatics Laboratory]. Etnograficheskoe obozrenie 2: 43–66. https://doi.org/10.7868/S3034627426020037
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