AI for science

Anthropic announced that a 950-agent Claude system in its molecular biology lab flagged a gene-repeat pattern near a known enzyme after 21 hours, calling it reminiscent of the discovery path that led to CRISPR. Biologists, including one who says his team found the same pattern earlier, dispute that this constitutes a genuine scientific discovery.

Google DeepMind has released AlphaGenome Atlas, a free research platform containing precomputed predictions for the effects of all 9 billion possible single-letter DNA variants in the human genome. The 1-petabyte dataset includes a new AlphaGenome Variant Impact (AVI) score that combines AlphaGenome and AlphaMissense predictions to help researchers rank genetic variants by likely impact.