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A virtual lab of LLM agents for science research
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# Virtual Lab [](https://badge.fury.io/py/virtual-lab) [](https://badge.fury.io/py/virtual-lab) [](https://pepy.tech/project/virtual-lab) [](https://github.com/zou-group/virtual-lab/blob/main/LICENSE.txt)  The **Virtual Lab** is an AI-human collaboration for science research. In the Virtual Lab, a human researcher works with a team of large language model (LLM) **agents** to perform scientific research. Interaction between the human researcher and the LLM agents occurs via a series of **team meetings**, where all the LLM agents discuss a scientific agenda posed by the human researcher, and **individual meetings**, where the human researcher interacts with a single LLM agent to solve a particular scientific task. Please see our paper [The Virtual Lab of AI agents designs new SARS-CoV-2 nanobodies](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09442-9) for more details on the Virtual Lab and an application to nanobody design for SARS-CoV-2. If you use the Virtual Lab, please cite our work as follows: Swanson, K., Wu, W., Bulaong, N.L. et al. The Virtual Lab of AI agents designs new SARS-CoV-2 nanobodies. *Nature* (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09442-9 ## Virtual Lab for nanobody design As a real-world demonstration, we applied the Virtual Lab to design nanobodies for one of the latest variants of SARS-CoV-2 (see [nanobody_design](https://github.com/zou-group/virtual-lab/tree/main/nanobody_design)). The Virtual Lab built a computational pipeline consisting of [ESM](https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade2574), [AlphaFold-Multimer](https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.10.04.463034v2), and [Rosetta](https://rosettacommons.org/software/) and used it to design 92 nanobodies that were experimentally validated. Please see the notebook [nanobody_design/run_nanobody_design.ipynb](https://github.com/zou-group/virtual-lab/blob/main/nanobody_design/run_nanobody_design.ipynb) for an example of how to use the Virtual Lab to create agents and run team and individual meetings. ## Installation The Virtual Lab can be installed using pip or by cloning the repo and installing the required packages. Installation should only take a couple of minutes. Optionally, first create a conda environment. ```bash conda create -y -n virtual_lab python=3.14 conda activate virtual_lab ``` The Virtual Lab can be installed via pip. ```bash pip install virtual-lab ``` To install the latest version of the Virtual Lab locally, clone the repo and then install the package. ```bash git clone https://github.com/zou-group/virtual_lab.git cd virtual_lab pip install -e . ``` ## OpenAI API Key The Virtual Lab currently uses GPT-5.2 from OpenAI by default. Save your OpenAI API key as the environment variable `OPENAI_API_KEY`. For example, add `export OPENAI_API_KEY=<your_key>` to your `.bashrc` or `.bash_profile`.
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