# Silico

Silico is an AI-assisted method development platform for analytical chemistry and High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC).

## What Silico Does
Silico helps analytical chemists and research scientists discover, evaluate, and scale HPLC methods. It uses retrieval-augmented workflows to extract proven chromatography methods from scientific literature and local corpus data, scaling them to match the user's specific local instrument hardware (column physics, flow rates, etc.).

## Key Features
- **Literature Extraction**: Automatically parses complex, dense chemical literature to find relevant separation methods.
- **Physics-Based Scaling**: Adapts literature methods to local laboratory hardware configurations using established chromatography physics.
- **Trust and Provenance**: All recommendations include citations, extraction confidence scores, and warnings about potential incompatibilities.
- **Corpus Curation**: Operators can review, approve, and promote strong extractions into a reusable local knowledge corpus.

## Important Links
- [Homepage](https://silico.example.com/): Product overview and value proposition.
- [Showcase](https://silico.example.com/showcase): Interactive demonstration of the method development predictor and extraction capabilities.
- [Contact](https://silico.example.com/contact): Reach out for evaluation and sales inquiries.

## Intended Audience
Silico is designed for technical experts: analytical chemists, lab operators, and research scientists handling complex target analytes and impurities.

Note: The public showcase is a simulated demonstration. Full retrieval and extraction capabilities require a configured local instance or authorized API access.