Artificial Intelligence agents for biological research: a survey

Cong Qi*, Wenbo Wang*, Siqi Jiang, Qin Liu, Xun Song, Hanzhang Fang, Zhi Wei

New Jersey Institute of Technology · Hamilton College   *equal contribution

Briefings in Bioinformatics 27(1), bbag075, 2026

Publication trend

New biological AI agent papers per month, from journals, bioRxiv, medRxiv and arXiv. Hover the line to read a month; click it to see that month's recommended papers.

Recommended reading

    Taxonomy

    The survey organises biological AI agents along five dimensions. Each box gives the number of papers in this collection and its most-cited systems. Click boxes to filter the table below; boxes in the same dimension combine with OR, different dimensions with AND.

    Year Paper Task Architecture Interaction Evaluation Resources

    † cited in the survey (Qi et al., 2026). Papers added after publication are tagged by the maintainers using the same criteria. Also available as a plain list and as JSON.

    Resources

    Benchmarks, libraries, knowledge sources and tools that biological agents are evaluated with and built on.