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Claude AI identifies previously unknown enzyme system in bacteriophages

Anthropic's Claude agents identified ART (array-associated reverse transcriptases)—a previously uncharacterized enzyme system in bacteriophages—by scanning DNA data. Part of broader pattern where AI accelerates discovery across biology, physics, and ecology.

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Exemplifies AI doing science at software speed, compressing research timelines dramatically. Demonstrates AI as research multiplier, though humans still guide and validate. Fuels excitement about AI-assisted discovery and opens questions about enzyme function and evolution in viral systems.

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@Dr_Singularityhuge news from Anthropic / amazing acceleration AI is starting to do years of science in days 👀 Anthropic published an extraordinary account of Prof. Matthew Schwartz using Claude + his BootLoops system across 18 scientific fields. In just 3 months, the effort produced 36 manuscripts with 19 coauthors, selected from roughly 400 candidate problems. Some of the standout results: - Claude reproduced results that had taken Schwartz weeks to code in about 20 minutes, then helped generalize the method to harder classes of physics problems. - The system completed 30 difficult Feynman integrals, including 15 that had apparently never been computed before. - In ecology, it solved an equation that had resisted scalable computation for about 20 years, then helped build a better predictive model with domain experts. - In population genetics, it analyzed 5.7 billion pairs of nearby mutations and found evidence for gene conversion that could matter for how genetic datasets are interpreted. - In economics, Claude helped port and check replication packages from 4,452 papers, covering around 30,000 routines. - In linguistics, it helped create a word stress database spanning 6,072 languages and a bibliography of 160,000 phonology works. - It also contributed to work in Earth science, genomics, cosmology, statistics, phylogenetics, sunspots, and mathematical physics. Now imagine what the next generation of models will do. Science is about to move much, much faster.1d
@trewknowledge8. 🧬 Claude Finds a New CRISPR-Like Enzyme System Anthropic says roughly 950 Claude agents searched more than 200,000 reverse transcriptases and identified a previously uncharacterized enzyme system in under a day. +10h
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    @Dr_Singularityhuge news from Anthropic / amazing acceleration AI is starting to do years of science in days 👀 Anthropic published an extraordinary account of Prof. Matthew Schwartz using Claude + his BootLoops system across 18 scientific fields. In just 3 months, the effort produced 36 manuscripts with 19 coauthors, selected from roughly 400 candidate problems. Some of the standout results: - Claude reproduced results that had taken Schwartz weeks to code in about 20 minutes, then helped generalize the method to harder classes of physics problems. - The system completed 30 difficult Feynman integrals, including 15 that had apparently never been computed before. - In ecology, it solved an equation that had resisted scalable computation for about 20 years, then helped build a better predictive model with domain experts. - In population genetics, it analyzed 5.7 billion pairs of nearby mutations and found evidence for gene conversion that could matter for how genetic datasets are interpreted. - In economics, Claude helped port and check replication packages from 4,452 papers, covering around 30,000 routines. - In linguistics, it helped create a word stress database spanning 6,072 languages and a bibliography of 160,000 phonology works. - It also contributed to work in Earth science, genomics, cosmology, statistics, phylogenetics, sunspots, and mathematical physics. Now imagine what the next generation of models will do. Science is about to move much, much faster.1d
    @trewknowledge8. 🧬 Claude Finds a New CRISPR-Like Enzyme System Anthropic says roughly 950 Claude agents searched more than 200,000 reverse transcriptases and identified a previously uncharacterized enzyme system in under a day. +10h
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