How to Use in silico in a Sentence

in silico

adverb or adjective
  • Rather than putting that on the page, Codemasters used it to describe each car in silico.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 17 Aug. 2018
  • Levy’s book about the science and nuance of life creation in silico.
    New York Times, 13 Mar. 2020
  • The in silico movement for drug discovery is in its nascence, but researchers like Shoichet have advanced the field over the past four years.
    Meghana Keshavan, STAT, 1 Oct. 2022
  • Finkbeiner and his team call their machine-learning approach in silico labeling, or ISL for short.
    Robbie Gonzalez, WIRED, 12 Apr. 2018
  • How to best use that space is something Airbus is also exploring, although that's being done full size and in silico rather than with action figures and a scale model.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 11 Feb. 2020
  • But that hasn't stopped our friends at CXC Simulations from having a go at reverse-engineering things in silico.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 13 Jan. 2020
  • Silver and colleagues might phrase this explicitly by highlighting the in silico nature of the forecasts: His predictions aren’t for the world as is, but are based on data that might reflect voter behavior.
    C. Brandon Ogbunu, Wired, 10 Nov. 2020
  • But not everyone is confident about the applications of in silico testing.
    Arvind Dilawar, Newsweek, 12 Oct. 2017
  • For all its apparent power, in silico work will not replace in vitro testing — and certainly not clinical trials.
    Quanta Magazine, 9 Mar. 2020
  • Each one orchestrates a biochemical ballet, transforming a string of in silico instructions into the company’s first product: a custom Crispr kit.
    Megan Molteni, WIRED, 3 May 2018
  • Wylie was fascinated by the concept of reconstructing a society in silico—capturing people’s data trails and their behavior to remake the actual world.
    Wired, 15 Oct. 2019
  • His lab combines a machine learning platform that generates new molecules in silico with a synthesizer that prints out these new molecules for a pipetting robot, which then performs experiments on them.
    Quanta Magazine, 9 Mar. 2020
  • Beyond speeding results and mitigating the risks of clinical trials, in silico medicine can be used in place of risky interventions that are required for diagnosing or planning treatment of certain medical conditions.
    Daniel E. Hurtado, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2020
  • Millions of p-JAMs are burned every time a single supercomputer simulates, say, a drug molecule’s interaction with biological cells in silico, rather than in humans.
    Mark P. Mills, National Review, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Biotech entrepreneurs now routinely utilize in silico modeling and contract research organizations to conduct early-stage experiments.
    Neil Littman, Forbes, 16 June 2021

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