AI Agent · Gemini · IEEE Spectrum AI
Paper2Agent lets scientists “agentify” their published research for others to query
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Elie Dolgin is a science writer specializing in biomedical research.
Key facts
- About 45 minutes later, with no human intervention, the AI had produced 22 tools covering different aspects of AlphaGenome’s functionality, all on a personal laptop and for less than US $15
- The validated tools were then packaged into a Model Context Protocol server and connected to Claude Code (though any compatible chat-based AI assistant could do)
- What’s more, the AI proposed 10 ways to validate this inference
- Zou and his colleagues described the tool 16 September in Nature
Summary
Have you ever read a paper in Science or Nature and thought, “Man, that research was so cool. Well, now you can, more or less. Say hello to Paper2Agent, a new open-source framework that transforms academic reports into interactive AI agents you can talk to. The concept may sound a little like Google’s NotebookLM (now called Gemini Notebook ), which lets you upload documents and chat with an AI about what’s in them. The goal, explains Stanford computer scientist James Zou, is to change what a scientific paper fundamentally is.