DataScribe: An AI-Native, Policy-Aligned Web Platform for Multi-Objective Materials Design and Discovery
This provides a general-purpose platform for materials science researchers, including self-driving labs, to streamline discovery processes, though it appears incremental by combining existing methods into a unified system.
The authors tackled the challenge of accelerating materials discovery by developing DataScribe, an AI-native web platform that integrates data management, optimization, and decision-making into research workflows, demonstrating its effectiveness through case studies in electrochemical materials and high-entropy alloys with real-time optimization and reproducible exploration.
The acceleration of materials discovery requires digital platforms that go beyond data repositories to embed learning, optimization, and decision-making directly into research workflows. We introduce DataScribe, an AI-native, cloud-based materials discovery platform that unifies heterogeneous experimental and computational data through ontology-backed ingestion and machine-actionable knowledge graphs. The platform integrates FAIR-compliant metadata capture, schema and unit harmonization, uncertainty-aware surrogate modeling, and native multi-objective multi-fidelity Bayesian optimization, enabling closed-loop propose-measure-learn workflows across experimental and computational pipelines. DataScribe functions as an application-layer intelligence stack, coupling data governance, optimization, and explainability rather than treating them as downstream add-ons. We validate the platform through case studies in electrochemical materials and high-entropy alloys, demonstrating end-to-end data fusion, real-time optimization, and reproducible exploration of multi-objective trade spaces. By embedding optimization engines, machine learning, and unified access to public and private scientific data directly within the data infrastructure, and by supporting open, free use for academic and non-profit researchers, DataScribe functions as a general-purpose application-layer backbone for laboratories of any scale, including self-driving laboratories and geographically distributed materials acceleration platforms, with built-in support for performance, sustainability, and supply-chain-aware objectives.