This single step by Anthropic could be the founding stone of AI moving from research to discovery. According to Anthropic, 950 Claude agents searched more than 200,000 reverse transcriptases in a span of 21 hours, processing around 210 million tokens. They generated about 3,500 candidates and narrowed down the search to 20 for highly detailed investigation. If we go by the old-school methods, genome mining needs scientists to manually search huge biological databases, identify unusual patterns and formulate hypotheses. AI can potentially compress that process on a considerable level.
