Do not index
Do not index
The amount of scientific literature in the world is exploding. Every year there are over 2 million scientific papers published in more than 30,000 peer reviewed journals - and this number continues to grow each year.
The rising amount of published research has caused a wide array of challenges for those who produce and consume science on a daily basis.
Firstly for scientists - keeping up with the sheer amount of published research has become a full time job. Additionally, collecting and synthesizing contextual information - for tasks like grant writing, literature reviews, and identifying new research ideas - is an increasingly daunting challenge. Interdisciplinary research is also challenging today. Science is incredibly fragmented, with a seemingly infinite number of niches consisting of different terminologies, methodologies, and key opinion leaders.
Secondly for non-scientists - science has become increasingly unapproachable. It’s hard to read papers even tangentially outside of one’s domain of expertise due of the amount jargon, technicalities, and bloat in academic writing. It’s hard to judge the quality of new research or to know whether a paper is relevant today or already out-of-date. This makes it hard for students trying to break into the field and for service oriented roles like consultants, investors, healthcare workers, or journalists who are trying to help distribute ground breaking research to other audiences.
These challenges need solutions. At Epsilon, we’re tackling this by building a tool to summarize the world’s scientific knowledge.
What does that mean? With Epsilon, researchers can enter questions and get evidence backed answers where every claim contains a citation to high quality academic articles. They can also generate reports that describe high level findings, latest research trends, and open questions pertaining to a field of study. They can easily run meta-analyses by extracting information from hundreds of papers at once or upload their own papers to easily analyze and synthesize information they’ve collected themselves.
Epsilon can read over 200 million papers and deliver digestible insights to researchers in record time. For someone writing a grant proposal, scientific article, or presentation - Epsilon turns what would be 20 hours of research into just 20 minutes.
The outcomes of this are far reaching.
The majority of time spent in scientific fields can be broken down into time spent reading, writing, and collecting data. At Epsilon, we believe that by making research more accessible, we will accelerate processes involved in reading and writing, allowing scientists to focus their time on creating real scientific value through experimentation and data collection.
By collecting insights across all fields of research, Epsilon can also break down barriers for interdisciplinary research - helping scientists make connections or discover research questions that might have otherwise been lost in dense and siloed texts.
By reducing friction to consume scientific knowledge, Epsilon can help create the 10x scientist.
Meanwhile, these same tools can have wide reaching effects on students and non-scientists as well. Reading new science and understanding the context of old science is challenging. This adds friction for students breaking into new fields, for journalists communicating findings to the public, for patent lawyers accurately portraying claims, for investors conducting due diligence, for consultants producing sound advice to clients, etc.
Tools that enable non-scientists to consume science in ways that were previously unimaginable will help optimize decision making in the real world, accelerate deployment of innovative research, and improve overall scientific literacy.
Scientific research is exploding in volume and growing in complexity. By building tools to search and summarize the world’s scientific knowledge, we can have immense impact - not only on the scientific world but also for those around it.
