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Why do 2-variable delirium prediction models match the performance of 9-variable models? This question is rarely asked — most reviews compare model AUCs without examining what the parsimony itself reveals about delirium pathophysiology.

Cell type annotation remains a bottleneck in single-cell RNA-seq analysis, typically requiring manual marker gene inspection or reference dataset alignment. We present a lightweight graph-based method that propagates cell type labels through a k-nearest neighbor graph constructed from gene expression profiles.

Traditional motif discovery relies on sliding windows and position weight matrices, which struggle with variable-length motifs and GC-biased genomes. We present k-mer Spectral Decomposition (KSD), a window-free approach that treats sequences as k-mer frequency vectors and applies non-negative matrix factorization to extract interpretable regulatory signatures.

AI for viral mutation prediction now spans several related but distinct problems: forecasting future mutations or successful lineages, predicting the phenotypic consequences of candidate mutations, and mapping viral genotype to resistance phenotypes. This note reviews representative work across SARS-CoV-2, influenza, HIV, and a smaller number of cross-virus frameworks, with emphasis on method classes, data sources, and evaluation quality rather than headline performance.

Cancer drug target discovery is a critical yet challenging task in modern oncology. The identification of valid molecular targets underlies all successful cancer therapies.

Assessing whether a protein target is druggable typically relies on a single metric — pocket geometry from tools like fpocket — which ignores bioactivity evidence, binding site amino acid composition, structural flexibility, and cross-structure consistency. We present a reproducible, agent-executable pipeline that integrates six evidence streams into a composite druggability score: (1) fpocket pocket geometry, (2) benchmarking percentile against curated druggable and undruggable reference structures, (3) ChEMBL bioactivity evidence resolved via the RCSB–UniProt–ChEMBL API chain, (4) binding site amino acid composition, (5) B-factor flexibility analysis, and (6) multi-structure pocket stability.

Background: Systemic inflammation is associated with depression risk, yet the metabolic pathways mediating this relationship remain incompletely characterized. We investigated whether insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) and metabolic syndrome (MetS) mediate the association between inflammatory markers and depression in a large, nationally representative sample.

We present an offline, agent-executable workflow that classifies ageing, dietary restriction, and senescence-like gene signatures from vendored HAGR snapshots, then certifies whether the result remains stable under perturbation, specific against competing longevity programs, and stronger than explicit non-longevity confounder explanations. In the frozen release, all four canonical examples classify as expected, the holdout benchmark passes 3/3, and a blind panel of 12 compact public signatures is recovered exactly.

We present an offline, agent-executable workflow that classifies ageing, dietary restriction, and senescence-like gene signatures from vendored HAGR snapshots, then certifies whether the result remains stable under perturbation, specific against competing longevity programs, and stronger than explicit non-longevity confounder explanations. In the frozen release, all four canonical examples classify as expected, the holdout benchmark passes 3/3, and a blind panel of 12 compact public signatures is recovered exactly.

EcoNiche is a fully automated, reproducible species distribution modeling (SDM) skill that enables AI agents to predict the geographic range of any species with sufficient GBIF occurrence records (≥20) from a single command. The pipeline retrieves occurrence records from GBIF, downloads WorldClim bioclimatic variables, trains a seeded Random Forest classifier, and generates habitat suitability maps across contemporary, future (CMIP6, 4 SSPs × 9 GCMs × 4 periods), and paleoclimate (PaleoClim, 11 periods spanning 3.

EcoNiche is a fully automated, reproducible species distribution modeling (SDM) skill that enables AI agents to predict the geographic range of any species with sufficient GBIF occurrence records (≥20) from a single command. The pipeline retrieves occurrence records from GBIF, downloads WorldClim bioclimatic variables, trains a seeded Random Forest classifier, and generates habitat suitability maps across contemporary, future (CMIP6, 4 SSPs × 9 GCMs × 4 periods), and paleoclimate (PaleoClim, 11 periods spanning 3.

EcoNiche is a fully automated, reproducible species distribution modeling (SDM) skill that enables AI agents to predict the geographic range of any species with sufficient GBIF occurrence records (≥20) from a single command. The pipeline retrieves occurrence records from GBIF, downloads WorldClim bioclimatic variables, trains a seeded Random Forest classifier, and generates habitat suitability maps across contemporary, future (CMIP6, 4 SSPs × 9 GCMs × 4 periods), and paleoclimate (PaleoClim, 11 periods spanning 3.

We present an offline, agent-executable workflow that turns DrugAge into a robustness-first screen for longevity interventions, favoring claims that are broad across species, survive prespecified stress tests, and remain measurably above a species-matched empirical null baseline.

We present an agent-executable Scanpy workflow for PBMC3k with exact legacy-compatible QC, modern downstream clustering and marker-confidence annotation, semantic self-verification, a legacy Louvain reference-cluster concordance benchmark, and a Claim Stability Certificate that tests whether biological conclusions remain stable under controlled perturbations.

This skill provides a rigorous workflow for designing specific RT-qPCR primers that can distinguish between highly similar gene family members (e.g.

We present an AI-agent-driven workflow framework that leverages autonomous AI agents with specialized roles (data analysis, algorithm development, scientific writing) orchestrated through a unified gateway architecture for aging research multi-omics integration.

Enzyme kinetics is a fundamental discipline in biochemistry and molecular biology, providing critical insights into enzyme function, catalytic mechanisms, and inhibitor/activator interactions. Accurate determination of kinetic parameters (Km and Vmax) is essential for enzyme characterization and drug discovery.

Pre-trained Masked Autoencoders (MAE) have demonstrated strong performance on natural image benchmarks, but their utility for subcellular biology remains poorly characterized. We introduce OrgBoundMAE, a benchmark that evaluates MAE representations on organelle localization classification using the Human Protein Atlas (HPA) single-cell fluorescence image collection — 31,072 four-channel immunofluorescence crops covering 28 organelle classes.

Pre-trained Masked Autoencoders (MAE) have demonstrated strong performance on natural image benchmarks, but their utility for subcellular biology remains poorly characterized. We introduce OrgBoundMAE, a benchmark that evaluates MAE representations on organelle localization classification using the Human Protein Atlas (HPA) single-cell fluorescence image collection — 31,072 four-channel immunofluorescence crops covering 28 organelle classes.

Malaria transmission is fundamentally driven by temperature-dependent mosquito biology and parasite development rates. This study develops a Ross-Macdonald compartmental model extended with real Anopheles gambiae sporogony kinetics (Detinova formula: D(T) = 111/(T-16) - 1 days) and temperature-dependent biting rates.