Anthropic announced the first achievements of its molecular biology laboratory. The company stated that Claude discovered a set of previously unrecorded enzyme systems within the bacteriophage DNA, which were subsequently reviewed and experimentally verified by human scientists.
AI First filter, then human verification.
Anthropic indicates that this task is completed in parallel by multiple Claude Agent. The system first screens candidates from the public sequences, followed by researchers who then assess the evidence and proceed with wet experiment verification. The company states that the entire process takes about 21 hours and consumes approximately 210 million Token.
The new system name is ART.
The team named this discovery ART, which stands for "Array-Associated Reverse Transcriptase System." It is primarily found in bacteriophages and consists of reverse transcriptase, companion genes, and regularly arranged DNA repeat sequences. Researchers say that this structure has similarities to the array characteristics of CRISPR.
Experimental confirmation of the existence of new features.
Preliminary experiments show that the ART array expresses a set of different short RNA. The research team believes that this indicates it may have a working mechanism similar to programmable recognition, but the specific mechanism still requires further study. Anthropic stated that this is also the first public achievement of their new molecular biology laboratory.
