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ArticleArXiv2026

Accelerating scientific discovery with Co-Scientist.

Juraj Gottweis, Wei-Hung Weng, Alexander Daryin, Tao Tu, Petar Sirkovic, Artiom Myaskovsky, Grzegorz Glowaty, Felix Weissenberger, Alessio Orlandi, Dan Popovici and 41 more

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Article in ArXiv, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited 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

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

51 authors.

Juraj GottweisGoogle Cloud AI Research, Zurich, Switzerland.
Wei-Hung WengGoogle DeepMind, Mountain View, California, USA.
Alexander DaryinGoogle Cloud AI Research, Zurich, Switzerland.
Tao TuGoogle DeepMind, Mountain View, California, USA.
Petar SirkovicGoogle Cloud AI Research, Zurich, Switzerland.
Artiom MyaskovskyGoogle Cloud AI Research, Zurich, Switzerland.
Grzegorz GlowatyGoogle Cloud AI Research, Zurich, Switzerland.
Felix WeissenbergerGoogle Cloud AI Research, Zurich, Switzerland.
Alessio OrlandiGoogle Cloud AI Research, Zurich, Switzerland.
Dan PopoviciGoogle Research, Mountain View, California, USA.
Anil PalepuGoogle Research, Mountain View, California, USA.
Keran RongGoogle DeepMind, Mountain View, California, USA.
Ryutaro TannoGoogle DeepMind, Mountain View, California, USA.
Khaled SaabGoogle DeepMind, Mountain View, California, USA.
Fan ZhangGoogle Research, Mountain View, California, USA.
Jacob BlumStanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, USA.
Andrew CarrollGoogle Research, Mountain View, California, USA.
Kavita KulkarniGoogle Research, Mountain View, California, USA.
Nenad TomaševGoogle DeepMind, Mountain View, California, USA.
Dina ZverinskiGoogle Cloud AI Research, Zurich, Switzerland.
Ivor RendulicGoogle Cloud AI Research, Zurich, Switzerland.
Elahe VedadiGoogle DeepMind, Mountain View, California, USA.
Florian HaslerGoogle Cloud AI Research, Zurich, Switzerland.
Luka RimanicGoogle Cloud AI Research, Zurich, Switzerland.
Marina BoiaGoogle Cloud AI Research, Zurich, Switzerland.
Ivan BudiselicGoogle Cloud AI Research, Zurich, Switzerland.
Ben FeinsteinGoogle Research, Mountain View, California, USA.
Mathias BellaicheGoogle Research, Mountain View, California, USA.
Tom ShefferGoogle Research, Mountain View, California, USA.
Jan FreybergGoogle DeepMind, Mountain View, California, USA.
Jeremy RatcliffGoogle DeepMind, Mountain View, California, USA.
Ottavia BertolliGoogle DeepMind, Mountain View, California, USA.
Katherine ChouGoogle Research, Mountain View, California, USA.
Avinatan HassidimGoogle Research, Mountain View, California, USA.
Burak GokturkGoogle Cloud AI Research, Zurich, Switzerland.
Amin VahdatGoogle Cloud AI Research, Zurich, Switzerland.
Yuan GuanStanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, USA.
Vikram DhillonHouston Methodist, Houston, Texas, USA.
Eeshit Dhaval VaishnavSequome, South San Francisco, California, USA.
Byron LeeSequome, South San Francisco, California, USA.
Tiago R D CostaFleming Initiative and Imperial College London, London, UK.
José R PenadésFleming Initiative and Imperial College London, London, UK.
Gary PeltzStanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, USA.
Yossi MatiasGoogle Research, Mountain View, California, USA.
James ManyikaGoogle Research, Mountain View, California, USA.
Demis HassabisGoogle DeepMind, Mountain View, California, USA.
Yunhan XuGoogle DeepMind, Mountain View, California, USA.
Pushmeet KohliGoogle DeepMind, Mountain View, California, USA.
Annalisa PawloskyGoogle Research, Mountain View, California, USA.
Alan KarthikesalingamGoogle DeepMind, Mountain View, California, USA.
Vivek NatarajanGoogle DeepMind, Mountain View, California, USA.

Funding

Enabling AI-based Mouse Genetic DiscoveryR24OD035408 · OD · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI GARY A PELTZ · 2023 to 2026
$3.0M
AI-based genetic discovery for hearing lossR01DC021133 · NIDCD · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI GARY A PELTZ · 2023 to 2026
$2.5M
NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC021133NIH HHS R24 OD035408
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Scientific discovery is driven by scientists generating novel hypotheses for complex problems that undergo rigorous experimental validation. To augment this process, we introduce Co-Scientist, a multi-agent AI system built on Gemini for structured scientific thinking and hypothesis generation. Co-Scientist aims to help scientists discover new original knowledge. Conditioned on their research objectives and prior scientific evidence, it formulates demonstrably novel research hypotheses for experimental verification. The system's design involves agents continuously generating, critiquing and refining hypotheses accelerated by scaling test-time compute. Key contributions include: (1) a multi-agent architecture with an asynchronous task execution framework for flexible compute scaling; (2) a tournament evolution process for self-improving hypotheses generation. Automated evaluations show continued benefits of test-time compute scaling, improving hypothesis quality over time. While general purpose, we focus the validation in three biomedical applications: drug repurposing, novel target discovery

Identifiers

PMID42428019
PMCPMC13345588

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