Claude Autonomously Designed 354 Protein Binders That Worked in the Lab
Anthropic says Claude orchestrated a pipeline of open-source biology models to design protein binders that succeeded at hit rates well above the field norm — one of the clearest signs yet of an agent doing real wet-lab science.
Anthropic reported that Claude autonomously designed 354 protein binders that later validated in the lab, according to @TraffAlex. Crucially, @marcopapa99 noted the binders "succeeded above the usual field hit rate" — meaning this was not a model producing plausible-looking sequences, but a model producing molecules that actually did their job when synthesized and tested.
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