Agents in action
950 Claude agents searched DNA for 21 hours and flagged a new kind of enzyme system
Anthropic says its part was limited to the initial prompt and the lab work. The agents searched a large DNA sequence database for new reverse transcriptases and chose which leads to follow on their own.
950 agents21 hours · 210M tokens
What the agent did
- Ran about 950 agents for 21 hours, using 210 million tokens
- Collected 200,000+ reverse transcriptases and picked out 3,500 new candidate systems
- Narrowed them to the 20 most compelling and wrote a report on each
- Spotted a repeat pattern next to an unusual enzyme, counted and measured the repeats and checked the literature before reporting it
Why it matters
The agents did the screening, from hundreds of thousands of sequences down to 20 worth a scientist's time. People kept the lab: first experiments show the array is expressed as distinct short RNAs.
Early results from a pre-print by Anthropic's own scientists. In their words, "we don't yet know its function."
Source: Anthropic
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