EMBL AI Librarian: Life-Sciences Knowledge Layer for AI Agents

arXiv:2607.28229 · cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.IR, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-07-30 · Read on arXiv

Luigi Sigillo, Matteo Silvestri, Francesco Tabaro, Rajat Bhatnagar, Syed Irtaza Mubashar, Matt Jeffryes, Daljit Nijjer, Vittorio Perera, Ola Spjuth, Julio Saez-Rodriguez, Melissa Harrison, Fabio Petroni

cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.IR, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-07-30

Code: https://github.com/petroni-lab/librarian

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Papers — 55× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Accuracy — 24× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 24× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AI Agents — 15× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 15× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Planner — 9× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Adam — 5× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Grounding — 5× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Verifier — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Embeddings — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abstention — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• RAG — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Hallucination — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• LLM judge — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Model-Agnostic — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Sufficiency — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Agentic AI — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes
• Commentary — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Decode — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• EMMA — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Evaluation Protocol — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fidelity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Knowledge Base Construction — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• LLM-as-a-Judge — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Localization — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Multi-Agent Framework — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Multi-Agent System — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
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Sources

• Towards an Agent-First Web: Redesigning the Web for AI Agents
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• GLM-5: from Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering
• Rethinking Agentic Search with Pi-Serini: Is Lexical Retrieval Sufficient?
• An AI Co-Data-Scientist for Prioritizing Candidate Biomarkers from Wearable Sensor Data
• LAB-Bench: Measuring Capabilities of Language Models for Biology Research
• Beyond Semantic Similarity: Rethinking Retrieval for Agentic Search via Direct Corpus Interaction
• Kosmos: An AI Scientist for Autonomous Discovery
• GPT-4o System Card
• SciSage: A Multi-Agent Framework for High-Quality Scientific Survey Generation
• Language agents achieve superhuman synthesis of scientific knowledge
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• Agentic Web: Weaving the Next Web with AI Agents
• Superintelligent Retrieval Agent: The Next Frontier of Agentic Retrieval
• Automatic Evaluation of Attribution by Large Language Models

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