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Virtual AI Lab for Scientific Research with VirtualLab

Best for: ai research team

Multi-agent virtual lab for scientific discussion, critique, and consensus building.

Coordinate open-ended research workflows with AI scientist roles for planning, critique, and iteration.

VirtualLab is a multi-agent research system that simulates an interdisciplinary scientific team, with AI agents playing different research roles and a human guiding the overall direction. Instead of only answering isolated questions, it is designed for open-ended research workflows that involve brainstorming, critique, planning, and iteration across methods. The goal is to help scientists access a broader range of expertise and accelerate complex discovery projects.

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20minds Co-Scientist workspace showing agent output, code, and controls

Details

  • License: MIT
  • Citation: Swanson et al. (2025). The Virtual Lab of AI agents designs new SARS-CoV-2 nanobodies. Nature, 646, 716-723.
  • Models: gpt-5-mini

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