Paving the way for agents in biology \ Anthropic
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Science Paving the way for agents in biology Jun 8, 2026 Written by Laura Luebbert. Based on research by Ferdous Nasri, Sarah Gurev, Patrick Varilly, Krithik Ramesh, Nuala A. O’Leary, Jonah Cool, Bernhard Y. Renard, Pardis Sabeti, and Laura Luebbert. In this post, Laura Luebbert argues that we need to make biological data infrastructure more agent-friendly. As a case study, she and her team tasked scientific research agents (Claude, Biomni Open Source (Biomni OSS) 1 , Edison Analysis, 2 GPT) to retrieve the sequence data from NCBI Virus, a database virologists use for tasks such as surveillanc
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