In a single day, JianJun Jin might switch from writing code on his computer to experimenting at a lab bench or working under greenhouse lights as an assistant curator at the New York Botanical Garden. His research spans several fields—plant systematics, genomics and computational biology—and his aim is to better understand the inner workings of plants. Jin is the developer of GetOrganelle, an AI software tool that helps biologists to disentangle the DNA of organelles—small cellular structures...