Tools
n8n as your lab bench
Five sessions on building real scientific AI tools in n8n — scientific database APIs, error handling, a tool-using research assistant, a five-stage literature pipeline, and your own domain-tuned review pipeline. By the end you can ship a small but useful research tool.
After this chapter you can
→ Query PubMed (esearch + efetch) and other scientific APIs from n8n
→ Build a pipeline that handles API failures without crashing
→ Compose a research assistant from PubMed search + paper details + AI synthesis
→ Run a five-stage pipeline that extracts structured data from abstracts
→ Tune a literature review pipeline to a question from your own field