Meet Biomni: the free powerful biomed AI agent turning data into hypotheses

A team from Stanford University, including two Chinese researchers, has created Biomni, the first general-purpose biomedical artificial intelligence agent. This AI is designed to collaborate with human scientists, tackling intricate tasks that previously required teams of specialists.

Jure Leskovec, a computer science professor at Stanford who supervised the project, stated that Biomni has been released as an open-source system. It features a web interface, allowing biologists to utilize its capabilities without needing to write code. "We have over 10,000 scientists all over the world using the system for their everyday tasks," Leskovec announced on Tuesday.

Published in the journal Science this week, the system, named Biomni, can transform a simple text request into a comprehensive research workflow. This includes searching databases, writing analysis code, identifying genes linked to diseases, and even generating step-by-step laboratory instructions that have been successfully implemented in real experiments by scientists. In one test, the AI was presented with hundreds of raw data files from wearable devices and asked to identify biological patterns. It successfully cleaned the data, performed the analysis, and generated new hypotheses.

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We have over 10,000 scientists all over the world using the system for their everyday tasks.