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Life & fun · July 9, 2026

I mapped 8.5M research papers into an interactive atlas

When I read papers, I have to jump between multiple tabs to find the dataset, code, videos, peer reviews, and so on. I tried to fix this with this project. It started as a project just for papers on arXiv, but after its initial success on Twitter (got like 1.9k views: the most I have gotten for a post), I have now expanded it to include other openly available papers from PubMed Central, bioRxiv, medRxiv, and eLife. These papers have been linked with their genes, proteins, diseases, drugs, clinical trials, 3D protein structures, code, and cited and similar papers. This project now has four…

I mapped 8.5M research papers into an interactive atlas launched on July 9, 2026 with 85 votes, #490 of 24,623 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.

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In plain words

This project maps 8.5 million research papers from arXiv, PubMed Central, bioRxiv, medRxiv, and eLife into an interactive visual atlas. Researchers can click on paper dots to access summaries, key findings, peer reviews, datasets, code, and linked information like genes, proteins, diseases, drugs, and clinical trials in one place. The tool aims to eliminate the need to jump between multiple tabs when researching scientific papers.

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From the sources

Tomesphere makes every arxiv paper readable. The free Chrome extension adds a side panel on arxiv with TLDR, OpenReview reviewer feedback and scores, GitHub and Hugging Face links, conference videos, the citation graph, and a semantic neighbor graph from SPECTER2 embeddings. Or browse 3 million papers directly at tomesphere.com. No signup, no payment. Built for researchers, ML practitioners, and anyone tired of scrolling 12-page PDFs to figure out what a paper actually does.

The map of human research — pick a field, see where the work is most active, drill into sub-clusters.

In the maker’s words, at launch

When I read papers, I have to jump between multiple tabs to find the dataset, code, videos, peer reviews, and so on. I tried to fix this with this project. It started as a project just for papers on arXiv, but after its initial success on Twitter (got like 1.9k views: the most I have gotten for a post), I have now…

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