Empowering biomedical evidence exploration and synthesis with deep knowledge graph research
摘要
Compared with generic artificial intelligence agents, deep research agents perform longer-horizon reasoning and deeper literature exploration to investigate complex questions. Here we present DeepEvidence, a deep research agent for evidence exploration and synthesis across heterogeneous biomedical knowledge sources. DeepEvidence advances deep research through coordinated multi-agent collaboration combining breadth-first and depth-first research strategies to search, explore and aggregate evidence from multiple biomedical knowledge bases and literature. It also incrementally constructs an evidence graph of key entities and observations to support transparent tracking, attribution and validation of the research process. DeepEvidence substantially outperforms generic artificial intelligence agents across four open benchmarks. We further establish seven benchmark tasks spanning major stages of biomedical discovery, including drug discovery, preclinical experimentation, clinical trial development and evidence-based medicine. DeepEvidence demonstrates substantial improvements in systematic evidence exploration and synthesis. These results highlight the potential of deep research agents to accelerate biomedical discovery and translational research.