The best AI tools for research include Paperpal for writing, Granted AI to identify funders, R Discovery to search the literature, NotebookLM to understand textbook chpaters and lecture recordings, Julius AI for data analysis, Otter AI for note taking and transcription, Gamma to make presentations, and BioRender to generate flowchart and protocol diagrams. We\u2019ll explore each of these in this blogpost, with tips on how to use them to maximize your productivity and efficiency<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Paperpal is an AI-powered academic writing assistant, trained specially on a database of millions of published research papers. Writing with Paperpal means that you can be confident about not just language quality but also an appropriate academic tone and style. Researchers can generate outlines, search and cite the literature, look up citations to support their arguments, and format citations and references in more than 10,000 styles. Paperpal also includes a plagiarism checker and AI detector, for you to run pre-submission checks on your final manuscript.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Price: Free, premium version at USD 11.50 per month onwards<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Granted AI helps you match your research goals with funders of interest or identify funding opportunities for any stage of your research career. Its database covers federal, private and non-profit funding agencies across all 50 states and 15 other countries. For example, NIH, NSF and USDA, American Red Cross and Memorial Sloan Kettering. The tool helps you find grants, write compelling proposals, track your application and monitor compliance. You can also save your searches to get alerts via email in the future. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Price: USD 57 per month onwards<\/p>\n\n\n\n
R Discovery is a powerful tool for busy researchers or students to stay updated with the latest research, get research-backed answers to any questions, and generate an insightful literature review. You can get a personalized feed of the latest updates on topics of your choice, or ask any question (\u201cIs heavy metal exposure linked to fibromyalgia?\u201d) and get a comprehensive answer with supporting citations to legitimate published research. The app offers access to more than 150 million journal articles, over 10 million conference proceedings, and over 5 million preprints. You can also get audio versions or translations of research papers you\u2019re interested in. Users can upload PDFs and get summaries or answers to their questions about that PDF.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Price: Free, prime version available at USD 3-12 per month<\/p>\n\n\n\n
NotebookLM helps you collate information from sources like PDFs, YouTube video transcripts, Google Docs, website URLs, and videos and turn it into outlines or video\/audio summaries. These summaries are both accessible and engaging, which makes this app very popular among students, researchers exploring new fields, or those in interdisciplinary projects. The tool is also good at creating infographics and slide decks, which makes it very convenient for professors and educators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Price: free for 100 notebooks and 50 sources per notebook, USD 9 per month onwards for premium version<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Julius AI is a very versatile and efficient data analysis tool. You can either upload datasets in Excel\/CSV or connect it directly to databases. Julius AI can provide whatever statistics, charts, or tables you need, perform modelling and predictive forecasting, train machine learning models, and generate plain-language reports or summaries. What\u2019s more, the tool does everything data-related, right from cleaning to visualization. Julius AI is preferred by researchers because of its strict security and confidentiality policies: each user has access to only their own data and data is completely erased from the servers whenever a user deletes it within the app. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Price: Free, premium versions for USD 16 per month onwards<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Otter AI is very useful for researchers conducting qualitative interviews, focus group discussions, etc. Users get automated, real-time transcription and summarization, from live or uploaded recordings. It identifies different speakers and extracts themes from the transcript. This allows researchers to give 100% attention to the participants and facilitate appropriately without distractions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Price: free, USD 8.33 per month onwards for Pro plan<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you\u2019ve an upcoming conference or symposium, Gamma helps researchers create captivating pitch decks that can be exported as PPT, PDF, or Google Slides. The tool has prompts to help educators from K-2 to graduate programs create effective educational materials. For researchers with industry partnerships, Gamma can help create training manuals, whitepapers, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Price: Free, subscriptions from USD 8-18 per month for Gamma Pro<\/p>\n\n\n\n
BioRender is best known for its premium scientific illustration libraries, but it also uses AI to help researchers create custom scientific figures. We recommend BioRender for creating flowcharts or protocols, and for turning your photos into professional-looking scientific icons to use in posters, slide decks, etc. Just remember that most journals forbid using AI-generated\/edited images for research results, experimental data, or diagnostics (so no AI at all in your Western blots, micrographs, scatter plots, etc.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Price: The free version of BioRender does not provide images suitable for publication. You\u2019ll need at least the Individual plan, at USD 35 per month onwards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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