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Comb DNA databases with 950 agents and spot a new enzyme system

Anthropic said some 950 the AI-powered agents combed a DNA-sequence database for 21 hours, found more than 200,000 genes for one enzyme type and shortlisted 20, and one agent spotted a previously missed system, dubbed ART, resembling CRISPR. Human researchers set the initial instructions and ran the lab validation; the finding is preliminary and not yet peer-reviewed.

How it works

  1. Give agents initial instructions
  2. 950 AI agents comb a DNA database for 21 hours
  3. Catalog more than 200,000 genes for one enzyme type
  4. Shortlist 20 leads
  5. One agent spots a repeating-DNA pattern beside a known enzyme gene
  6. Human scientists validate in the lab

Why it’s worth knowing

Hundreds of agents working autonomously for 21 hours surfaced a biological system human scientists had missed.

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Summarized from a public post on phys.org. See the original ↗

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