Stanford teaches SI to turn a scientific paper into a working agent in 45 minutes and $14
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Scientific papers stop being dead text — their methods can be immediately "run" and queried, which means discoveries will spread and be verified much faster.
The Paper2Agent system, described in Nature, parses a paper's text, code, data and applications, puts them on an MCP server and assembles the methods into callable tools, producing a "virtual corresponding author" that answers questions and applies the methods to new data. Of 100 computational biology papers, 74 were turned into agents with nearly 600 tools, with 91.2% accuracy on 300 questions. An agent for the AlphaGenome paper was built in 45 minutes and $14.
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