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ArticleNature2026

An AI system to help scientists write expert-level empirical software.

Eser Aygün, Anastasiya Belyaeva, Gheorghe Comanici, Marc Coram, Hao Cui, Jake Garrison, Renee Johnston, Anton Kast, Cory Y McLean, Peter Norgaard and 32 more

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Article in Nature, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
7citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

42 authors.

Eser Aygün *Google DeepMind, Montréal, Quebec, Canada.
Anastasiya Belyaeva *Google Research, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Gheorghe Comanici *Google DeepMind, Montréal, Quebec, Canada.
Marc Coram *Google Research, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Hao Cui *Google Research, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0006-2456-083X
Jake Garrison *Google Platforms and Devices, Mountain View, CA, USA.
Renee Johnston *Google Research, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Anton Kast *Google Research, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0755-9996
Cory Y McLean *Google Research, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9928-8216
Peter Norgaard *Google Research, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Zahra Shamsi *Google Research, Cambridge, MA, USA.
David Smalling *Google DeepMind, Montréal, Quebec, Canada.
James Thompson *Google Research, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Subhashini Venugopalan *Google Research, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3729-8456
Brian P Williams *Google Research, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2839-0106
Chujun HeGoogle Research, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Sarah MartinsonGoogle Research, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0004-4636-5061
Martyna PlomeckaGoogle Research, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Lai WeiGoogle Research, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Yuchen ZhouGoogle Research, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Qian-Ze ZhuGoogle Research, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Matthew AbrahamGoogle Research, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Erica BrandGoogle Research, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Anna BulanovaGoogle DeepMind, Montréal, Quebec, Canada.
Jeffrey A CardilleGoogle Research, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Chris CoGoogle Research, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Scott EllsworthGoogle Research, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Grace JosephGoogle Research, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Malcolm KaneGoogle Research, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Ryan KruegerGoogle Research, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Johan KartiwaGoogle Research, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Dan LieblingGoogle Research, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Jan-Matthis LueckmannGoogle Research, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4320-4663
Paul RaccugliaGoogle Research, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2434-2852
Xuefei Julie WangGoogle Research, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Katherine ChouGoogle Research, Cambridge, MA, USA.
James ManyikaGoogle Research, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Yossi MatiasGoogle Research, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3960-6002
John C PlattGoogle Research, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Lizzie DorfmanGoogle Research, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Shibl MouradGoogle DeepMind, Montréal, Quebec, Canada. shibl@google.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0002-2040-7011
Michael P BrennerGoogle Research, Cambridge, MA, USA. mbrenner@google.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5673-7947

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The cycle of scientific discovery is frequently bottlenecked by the slow, manual creation of software to support computational experiments

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PMCPMC13293872

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