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The launch article explains the company name by the view that biology "can be thought of as an information processing system" and that there may be "an isomorphic mapping between the two". Copy claim link
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Provision Statement · provision ID labs-iso-name-rationale-2021 Date 2021-11 · publication Records dated 2021 → Scope and limits The article's own account of its name and outlook, recorded as stated; the view of biology as an information system is recorded separately as a proposition that texts state. No agreement by others is implied. Read in the page as served in 2026; its wording is not independently attested for November 2021.
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Introducing Isomorphic Labs ↗ Isomorphic Labs · Publication date unknown
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Paraphrase the article says that biology can be thought of as an information processing system.
Location in source section "An AI-first approach to drug discovery and biology"
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Machine-checked · 2026-10-30
Source details and check notes Authors Isomorphic Labs Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 9876851e2f44bb952fe106ec7f44f18c48ee9265e8622eabd0f6d158e9fdd354). Isomorphic Labs article page as served on 2026-10-30; the page shows the date "November 1, 2021" and names no author. The original-period capture of 5 November 2021, opened by the cross-family check of 2026-10-30, displays November 2021 without a day; it is recorded as a source of its own. Its wording can change; earlier wording is not authenticated. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-30 Language English (en) Attribution Isomorphic Labs, “Introducing Isomorphic Labs”. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, AI in biology (research/ai-in-biology). The paraphrase is Selekoa’s, written from the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-30; it is not a quotation and was not machine-matched. Given as a paraphrase because the source’s quotation limit is shared with a record that quotes the fuller sentence. No human editorial review. primary source Supports the claim
Introducing Isomorphic Labs ↗ Isomorphic Labs · Publication date unknown
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Paraphrase the article says there may be a common underlying structure, an isomorphic mapping, between biology and information science, and that this is the reason for the company’s name.
Location in source section "An AI-first approach to drug discovery and biology", next sentence
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Machine-checked · 2026-10-30
Source details and check notes Authors Isomorphic Labs Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 9876851e2f44bb952fe106ec7f44f18c48ee9265e8622eabd0f6d158e9fdd354). Isomorphic Labs article page as served on 2026-10-30; the page shows the date "November 1, 2021" and names no author. The original-period capture of 5 November 2021, opened by the cross-family check of 2026-10-30, displays November 2021 without a day; it is recorded as a source of its own. Its wording can change; earlier wording is not authenticated. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-30 Language English (en) Attribution Isomorphic Labs, “Introducing Isomorphic Labs”. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, AI in biology (research/ai-in-biology). The paraphrase is Selekoa’s, written from the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-30; it is not a quotation and was not machine-matched. Given as a paraphrase to keep within the source’s quotation limit. No human editorial review. primary source Context only
Introducing Isomorphic Labs ↗ Isomorphic Labs · 2021-11
Archived copy, captured 2021-11-05: Introducing Isomorphic Labs ↗
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Paraphrase The launch article is dated November 2021, without a day, names Demis Hassabis as founder and chief executive, and announces the creation of the Alphabet company; its mission sentence has “from the ground up” where the later page has “from first principles”.
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Source details and check notes Authors Isomorphic Labs Version Internet Archive capture of 5 November 2021 of the original address of the launch article, opened by the cross-family machine check on 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 4581ef4e346e2f0919f878fd5a1272117b68fdd86cde1215010ee54af47997ef). The check reports the date “NOVEMBER 2021” without a day, Demis Hassabis named as founder and chief executive, and “from the ground up” where the later page says “from first principles”. This admission could not reach the Internet Archive and did not repeat the reading. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-30 Language English (en) Archive copy Open archived copy, captured 2021-11-05: Introducing Isomorphic Labs ↗ . An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2021-11-05. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-30.Attribution Isomorphic Labs, “Introducing Isomorphic Labs”, 2021-11. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Added at the admission of the AI in biology pack (research/ai-in-biology). The cross-family machine check of 2026-10-30 opened the Internet Archive capture this source names; this admission could not reach the Internet Archive and did not repeat the reading. The passage is Selekoa’s paraphrase of what the check reported, not a quotation. No human editorial review. Status and meaning Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor . An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
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Date. Month of the launch article as its original-period capture of 5 November 2021 displays it (“NOVEMBER 2021”), read by the cross-family machine check of 2026-10-30; the page as served in 2026 displays 1 November 2021, a day no contemporaneous expression confirms.
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