Develop methods to process, store, or use foods, drugs, or chemical compounds.

“Develop methods to process, store, or use foods, drugs, or chemical compounds.” is a supplemental task performed by Biochemists and Biophysicists. Among the occupation's 24 rated tasks, workers place it 3rd by importance (#22 most important). About 60% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Research technology designs or applications. in Getting Information

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E2. Exposure with tools — software built on top of a language model (not the model alone) could cut the time by at least half.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 0.50. Automation potential label: T1.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Share research findings by writing scientific articles or by making presentations at scientific conferences. · importance 4.7
• Teach or advise undergraduate or graduate students or supervise their research. · importance 4.5
• Manage laboratory teams or monitor the quality of a team's work. · importance 4.5
• Study physical principles of living cells or organisms and their electrical or mechanical energy, applying methods and knowledge of mathematics, physics, chemistry, or biology. · importance 4.5
• Develop new methods to study the mechanisms of biological processes. · importance 4.4
• Write grant proposals to obtain funding for research. · importance 4.4
• Design or perform experiments with equipment, such as lasers, accelerators, or mass spectrometers. · importance 4.2
• Determine the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules. · importance 4.2
• Prepare reports or recommendations, based upon research outcomes. · importance 4.0
• Design or build laboratory equipment needed for special research projects. · importance 4.0
• Study spatial configurations of submicroscopic molecules, such as proteins, using x-rays or electron microscopes. · importance 4.0
• Study the chemistry of living processes, such as cell development, breathing and digestion, or living energy changes, such as growth, aging, or death. · importance 3.9
• Prepare pharmaceutical compounds for commercial distribution. · importance 3.8
• Study the mutations in organisms that lead to cancer or other diseases. · importance 3.7

See all tasks on the Biochemists and Biophysicists page.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

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  title  = {Develop methods to process, store, or use foods, drugs, or chemical compounds.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-12942}
}