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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.

Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in systemic sclerosis (SSc), rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and inflammatory myopathies. Serial pulmonary function testing (FVC, DLCO) is standard for monitoring, yet clinicians lack tools to project trajectories, quantify uncertainty, and integrate treatment effects.

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.

Glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis (GIOP) affects 30-50% of patients on chronic glucocorticoids. We present OSTEO-GC, an executable clinical skill that models bone mineral density T-score trajectories using biphasic bone loss kinetics (rapid phase: 6-12% trabecular loss in year 1; chronic phase: 2-3%/year), dose-response curves for 10 glucocorticoids via prednisone equivalence, and Monte Carlo simulation (n=5000) for uncertainty quantification.

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.