Artificial Intelligence for Science: Empower R&D with Luma's Intelligent Insights
Luma AI empowers scientific R&D by integrating domain-specific artificial intelligence directly into workflows to capture structured experimental data with full context, enabling fast, traceable, and reliable analysis through its embedded AI tools and the Luma Agent, which autonomously plans, executes complex analyses, configures data models, and generates documentation tailored to life sciences domains like flow cytometry, cheminformatics, and bioinformatics.
Luma AI Capabilities
AI that does the work of science
Describe what you need. Luma plans the work, runs the analysis, configures what needs building, and delivers a result you can trust.
How it works
AI is only as good as the data underneath it.
Most AI in life sciences runs on fragmented, unstructured data—spreadsheets, free text, disconnected systems. The models are powerful. The foundation is not.
Luma captures scientific data structured at the point of work—with full context of experiments, materials, and decisions. That's why Luma doesn't guess what your data means. It understands it.
The result is fast, traceable, and verifiable answers you can trust in real scientific workflows.
Three ways Luma brings AI to scientific work
AI built into the platform
Summarize datasets, classify results, and surface trends without writing SQL or switching tools. AI is embedded directly into Luma workflows, so scientists can get value from day one.
Luma Agent: AI that handles the whole task
Luma Agent goes beyond a single prompt. It understands your data, your workflows, and the science behind them, then handles the steps in between, whether that's running an analysis, generating documentation, or configuring the platform itself, so you can stay focused on the outcome.
Scientific AI built for the domain
Purpose-built capabilities for flow cytometry, cheminformatics, and bioinformatics bring specialized AI directly into scientific workflows where it can drive real work forward.
Meet Luma Agent: your AI co-scientist
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Complex analysis, done for you. Configuration too.
- Ask the question or describe what you need built. Luma Agent builds the plan, works across your scientific data, and returns a structured result in one conversation.
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Luma Agent configures what your science needs next.
- Describe your domain in plain language and Luma Agent builds the data model, columns, relationships, and workflows for you. What you get is a fully configured application with auto-generated data flows and documented metadata, ready to capture structured data from day one. The scientist approves. The work is done.
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Documentation that writes itself.
- When the work is done, Luma Agent traces the full lineage of the experiment and generates a complete, audit-ready report from the data already in Luma.
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From question to outcome, without the in-between work.
- Luma Agent handles the work between your question and the answer, from finding the right data to running the analysis and pulling everything together into something useful.
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Built for real-world governance.
- Every action is logged. Every write requires your explicit approval before it executes. The audit trail is built into how Luma Agent works.
AI you can trust with your science
Luma Agent is built on the same principles of control and traceability that govern your scientific data today. The agent does the work. You make every decision.
Human approval
- Every data-modifying action requires your sign-off.
Full transparency
- Every step is logged. Nothing happens behind the scenes.
Verifiable answers
- Every answer is backed by a query you can inspect and re-run.
Scientist in control
- You make the decisions. The agent handles the work.
AI that does more than answer
See how Luma Agent completes analysis, reporting and configuration work across your scientific data, with traceable results ready to review.
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