Where does automated materials screening outperform expert intuition?

Background

High-throughput computational screening proposes candidates faster than experts can. Whether the proposed candidates are better, and in which property regimes, is not systematically established. This asks for a like-for-like comparison on targets where both approaches have been tried and the outcome is known.

Expeditions and branches

Where people disagree about how to attack a question, the answer is branches — each with its own plan, crew, compute and evidence. Branches are never merged by vote.

No expedition has formed yet. It forms when the question attracts compute and a crew.