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Stanford-led team releases open-source biomedical AI agent Biomni
The Biomni system was described as turning plain-language requests into full research workflows, from database searches to lab step instructions.
Stanford University researchers, with two Chinese co-authors, say they have built a general-purpose biomedical AI agent designed to work alongside human scientists on complex research tasks, and they have released it as an open-source system with a web interface, according to SCMP Economy.
The outlet reports that in a Science paper this week, the team said Biomni can convert plain-language requests into end-to-end research workflows, including searching databases, generating analysis code, identifying disease-causing genes, and producing step-by-step lab instructions that scientists followed in real experiments.
SCMP Economy adds that the researchers demonstrated Biomni using hundreds of raw wearable-device files, where the system cleaned the data, ran analyses, and generated new hypotheses.
Jure Leskovec, a Stanford computer science professor who supervised the project, also said the platform has been taken up by more than 10,000 scientists worldwide for everyday work.