Anthropic says Claude AI helped discover novel enzyme system
Anthropic said 950 Claude-powered agents found the system after 21 hours of searching DNA sequences.
- On Wednesday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei announced that Claude, its AI system, discovered a previously unknown enzyme system in DNA that may constitute a new gene editing mechanism with applications in gene therapy.
- Some 950 Claude-powered software agents analyzed DNA sequences for 21 hours, scanning more than 200,000 genes to identify 20 candidates—work that would typically require weeks of laboratory effort.
- Beside the enzyme's gene sits a long array of repeating DNA, a structure resembling CRISPR, the natural defense system bacteria use to modify living organisms.
- Feng Zhang, a professor at MIT and the Broad Institute, called the findings 'genuinely intriguing' and said the discovery 'merits further investigation,' though results remain preliminary and unpeer-reviewed.
- Anthropic dubbed the newly identified system ART, and Amodei stated the finding is 'Preliminary,' suggesting AI could eventually autonomously control lab equipment to accelerate drug discovery research.
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Anthropic says Claude AI helped discover novel enzyme system
Anthropic on Wednesday said its Claude model helped discover a novel enzyme system with properties reminiscent of mechanisms in gene-editing technology CRISPR, marking the first result from the AI startup's biology research efforts.
It is not a 'new Crispr' nor has it yet been shown to be useful for editing DNA, but it seems to him very much and, if it is as Anthropic tells it, it has been discovered without human intervention.The US company announced on Thursday that its artificial intelligence system (IA) Claude has found "in an autonomous manner" an enzyme system previously unknown similar to the powerful genetic editing tool.The results, the first of the new biological …
Claude Finds Hidden DNA System With CRISPR-Like Features That Could Cut, Copy and Paste Genetic Material
Anthropic says its Claude AI system identified a previously uncharacterised enzyme system in bacteriophage DNA, but researchers are still investigating whether it can perform programmable genetic operations.
Anthropic reported that Claude had discovered a new enzyme ART system in the DNA of bacteriaters with properties similar to CRISPR.
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A thousand copies of AI Claude scrutinized a DNA sequence base for 21 hours to perform an analysis that would take weeks, if not months, to a researcher. For Anthropic, this result demonstrates that his IA can speed up fundamental research.
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