Scientific knowledge has been accumulated for hundreds or even thousands of years. With 'accumulation', it means scientific discoveries have been recorded and published, mostly through scientific literature. By accessing the accumulated knowledge, development of new knowledge could be efficient. Particularly in life sciences, the existence of public online libraries, e.g. PubMed, has played an important role in enabling scientists to instantly access scientific articles of interest. As technology progresses, however, the velocity of knowledge extension is rapidly increasing, and it is becoming almost impossible for human researchers to comprehend even their own expert areas.
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