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Consumer wearable biosensors generate continuous multivariate physiological time series — heart rate variability, photoplethysmography-derived SpO2, skin temperature, and accelerometry — that are shaped by a hierarchy of biological rhythms operating across timescales from minutes to weeks. Existing time-series foundation models apply generic positional encodings that are agnostic to this temporal structure, forcing the model to infer circadian and ultradian patterns from data alone and conflating pathological deviations with normal chronobiological variation. We introduce BioWaveNet, the first temporal foundation model to incorporate coupled oscillator dynamics as an architectural prior through a novel Kuramoto Circadian Positional Encoding (K-CPE) layer. BioWaveNet learns a synchronized master oscillator whose phase tracks circadian time, enabling the attention mechanism to explicitly compute within-phase and cross-phase similarity. We prove that standard sinusoidal positional encodings are a limiting degenerate case of K-CPE when inter-oscillator coupling strength K→0. Pre-trained on a curated corpus of 3.2 billion biosensor epochs spanning 847,000 person-nights from seven public datasets (MESA, NHANES, PhysioNet Apnea-ECG, SHHS, MIMIC-IV Waveforms, LifeSnaps, and PMData), BioWaveNet achieves state-of-the-art performance across four independent benchmarks: circadian phase estimation (MAE 0.28h vs. 0.71h for best baseline), disease episode detection (rhinitis, OSA, paroxysmal AF; mean AUROC 0.912), 24-hour HRV forecasting (RMSE 3.8ms vs. 6.1ms), and physiological anomaly detection (AUPRC 0.847). Critically, rhinitis-active periods, obstructive sleep apnea events, and atrial fibrillation episodes each occupy distinct, separable regions of the circadian-residual embedding space, enabling zero-shot disease fingerprinting. We release pre-trained model weights, training code, and benchmark evaluation harness.

We present ngs-advisor, a prompt-driven AI agent skill that enables experimental biologists to obtain pragmatic, economical, and executable next-generation sequencing (NGS) plans with minimal back-and-forth. Unlike traditional consultation workflows, ngs-advisor structures the entire planning process into a standardized, machine-parseable output format with eight stable anchors: [RECOMMENDATION], [BUDGET_TIERS], [PARAMETERS], [PITFALLS], [QC_LINES], [DECISION_LOG], [PUBMED_QUERY], and [PUBMED_URL]. The skill supports six major NGS assay types (WGS, WES, Bulk RNA-seq, scRNA-seq, ATAC-seq, and Metagenome), provides unified parameter conversion formulas, implements three-tier budget analysis (A/B/C), and generates copy-ready PubMed queries with clickable search links. A deliberate anti-hallucination policy prohibits fabrication of PMIDs or papers. We demonstrate the skill on a maize salt-stress transcriptomics scenario, producing a complete sequencing plan from a single user sentence. Source code and skill definition are available at https://github.com/Wuhl00/ngs-advisor.

Foundation models like Geneformer identify disease-relevant genes through attention mechanisms, but whether high-attention genes are mechanistically critical remains unclear. We investigated PCDH9, the only gene with elevated attention across all cell types in our cross-disease neurodegeneration study. Expression analysis reveals significant PCDH9 dysregulation across AD, PD, and ALS (p<0.05 in 9/12 disease-cell type combinations). However, in silico perturbation shows minimal impact on model predictions (mean confidence drop: -0.0001 to -0.0029). These results demonstrate that PCDH9 is a biomarker of neurodegeneration but not functionally critical for disease classification, highlighting the distinction between attention-based gene discovery and mechanistic relevance.

Transfer learning with foundation models like Geneformer has shown promise for cross-disease prediction in neurodegeneration, but methodological concerns about cell-type composition confounds remain unaddressed. We conducted cell-type stratified experiments across Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD), and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), fine-tuning Geneformer within four homogeneous cell populations. Transfer learning persists within cell types (PD 10% few-shot F1: 0.920-0.949), but attention analysis reveals that previously reported shared genes like EMX2 were composition artifacts. Only PCDH9 appears across all cell types. These results demonstrate that cross-disease transfer learning works but requires cell-type stratification to avoid spurious biological interpretations.

Patients with autoimmune rheumatic diseases frequently require 5-8 concurrent medications spanning DMARDs, biologics, glucocorticoids, NSAIDs, and supportive therapies. POLYCHECK is an executable clinical decision support tool that screens all pairwise medication combinations against a curated, evidence-grounded DDI knowledge base specific to rheumatology. It classifies interactions by severity (Contraindicated, Major, Moderate, Minor), provides pharmacokinetic mechanism annotation, generates a Composite Polypharmacy Risk Score (CPRS) with Monte Carlo uncertainty estimation, and outputs consolidated monitoring guidance. Implemented in pure Python with no external dependencies.

**Background:** Similar to human genomics research, microbiome research may exhibit geographic biases due to economic, political, and infrastructure disparities. This study investigates whether microbiome research shows overrepresentation of Western populations and underrepresentation of African populations. **Methods:** We analyzed metadata from 42,571 studies in the NCBI Sequence Read Archive (SRA) and 3,747 studies from China's National GeneBank Database (NGDC), comprising a total of 46,318 microbiome/metagenome studies with over 5.2 million samples. Geographic origin was inferred from study titles, center names, and accession prefixes using keyword-based classification. **Results:** Severe geographic disparities were identified. North America accounted for 14.64% of studies despite representing only 4.7% of the global population (3.1× overrepresented). In contrast, Africa contributed merely 0.91% of studies while comprising 17.9% of the world population (0.05× represented, 20× underrepresented). The North America-to-Africa study ratio was 16.1:1. This bias exceeds that observed in human genome-wide association studies (GWAS: 2% African ancestry). China's domestic repository (NGDC) contained 5.4× more Chinese studies than identified in SRA, indicating a shift toward data sovereignty. **Conclusions:** Microbiome research exhibits severe geographic bias that exceeds disparities in human genomics. The microbiome of approximately 1.4 billion Africans remains largely uncharacterized, limiting the generalizability of current microbiome knowledge to underrepresented populations. Targeted funding and international collaborative efforts are urgently needed to address this inequity.

We present dna-report, a Python-based, one-command pipeline that transforms a raw DNA FASTA sequence into a comprehensive, publication-ready analysis report (bookmarked PDF + Markdown). The pipeline integrates basic sequence property computation (length, GC content, molecular weight for dsDNA/ssDNA/RNA), restriction enzyme site scanning for 10 common 6-cutter enzymes (EcoRI, BamHI, HindIII, XhoI, NotI, NdeI, NheI, NcoI, BglII, SalI), asynchronous NCBI BLASTN homology search against the comprehensive nt database, and structured AI-assisted functional prediction with dynamic PubMed literature linking. Each analysis run is fully isolated into timestamped output folders, ensuring reproducibility and non-destructive workflows. Network-dependent steps (BLASTN) employ async submit/poll/fetch with a 300-second hard timeout and graceful degradation, guaranteeing that a partial network failure never blocks report generation. The pipeline also integrates Evo 2, a genomic foundation model, providing users with direct access to sequence-level perplexity scoring and nucleotide conservation analysis. dna-report is designed as a skill for AI agent platforms, enabling any agent to execute end-to-end DNA bioinformatics analysis without manual intervention. Source code is available at https://github.com/Wuhl00/dna-report.

We present an offline, self-verifying target-cartography workflow for prioritizing solid-tumor cell-therapy single-antigen leads from compact frozen snapshots of tumor RNA, normal-tissue RNA and protein, and adult healthy single-cell atlases. Canonical v1 ranks safety-filtered single-antigen targets only. Optional logic-gate outputs are generated separately as bulk-supported rescue hypotheses from bulk tumor co-detection plus adult normal-risk filtering and are not same-cell-validated gate designs. The workflow emits transparent feature terms, safety and coverage certificates, and separate rediscovery benchmarks against a naive tumor-overexpression plus bulk-normal-RNA baseline.

Falls are the leading cause of injury-related morbidity in elderly patients, with rheumatic disease patients facing 2-4x higher risk due to glucocorticoid-induced myopathy, joint instability, polypharmacy, and visual impairment. FALLS-RHEUM implements a 10-domain weighted composite scoring system grounded in AGS/BGS 2010 guidelines, Tinetti POMA, and the TUG test, with rheumatology-specific adjustments for GC exposure, joint involvement, and sarcopenia. Monte Carlo simulation (n=5000) provides 95% CIs. Generates actionable guideline-based recommendations.

Neurodegenerative diseases share core transcriptomic programs — neuroinflammation, mitochondrial dysfunction, and proteostasis collapse — yet computational models are typically trained in disease-specific silos. We investigate whether a single-cell RNA-seq foundation model fine-tuned on one neurodegenerative disease can transfer learned representations to others. We fine-tune Geneformer V2 (104M parameters) on 20,000 single-nucleus transcriptomes from Alzheimer's disease (AD) brain tissue, achieving 98.9% F1 and 99.6% AUROC on held-out AD test data. We then evaluate cross-disease transfer to Parkinson's disease (PD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) under zero-shot, few-shot (10–100% of target data), and train-from-scratch conditions. While zero-shot transfer fails (F1 < 0.04), few-shot fine-tuning with just 10% of target disease data achieves F1 = 0.912 for PD and 0.887 for ALS, approaching from-scratch performance (0.976 and 0.971 respectively) at a fraction of the data. Attention analysis reveals three genes — DHFR, EEF1A1, and EMX2 — consistently attended across all three diseases, with 34 shared high-attention genes between PD and ALS suggesting closer transcriptomic kinship than either shares with AD. These results demonstrate that transformer-based foundation models capture transferable neurodegenerative signatures and that cross-disease transfer learning is a viable strategy for data-scarce neurological conditions.

Structural variants (SVs) are a major source of genomic diversity but remain challenging to detect accurately. We benchmark five widely used long-read SV callers — Sniffles2, cuteSV, SVIM, pbsv, and DeBreak — on simulated and real (GIAB HG002) datasets across PacBio HiFi and Oxford Nanopore platforms. We stratify performance by SV type, size class, repetitive context, and sequencing depth. Sniffles2 and DeBreak achieve the highest F1 scores (0.958) on real data with complementary strengths in recall and precision. A k=2 ensemble strategy improves F1 to 0.972, outperforming any individual caller. Small SVs (50–300 bp) in repetitive regions remain the primary challenge across all tools. We provide practical recommendations for caller selection, ensemble design, and minimum coverage thresholds for research and clinical applications.

Antimicrobial peptide discovery often rewards assay-positive hits that later fail in salt, serum, shifted pH, or liability-sensitive settings. We present a biology-first, offline workflow that ranks APD-derived peptide leads by deployability rather than activity alone and then proposes bounded rescue edits for near misses. The frozen scored path vendors 6,574 standard-amino-acid APD entries retrieved from the official APD site and combines interpretable sequence features with APD-derived activity, salt, serum, pH, resistance, and liability labels. On a frozen rediscovery panel of 320 APD peptides, the full deployability score outperformed an activity-only baseline on every primary ranking metric, improving AUPRC from `0.4188` to `0.9176`, AUROC from `0.3498` to `0.8751`, EF@5% from `0.75` to `2.00`, and recall@25 from `0.0563` to `0.1563`. On a 24-pair masked analog benchmark constrained to the v1 redesign search space, the rescue engine recovered the exact target sequence within the accepted rescue set for 22 pairs (`91.7%`) with a mean accepted proposal gain of `0.0988` deployability units over parent peptides. In the default canonical library, Chicken CATH-1 (`AP00557`) ranked first. The contribution is therefore not a generic AMP classifier, but an executable workflow that separates deployable leads from liability-heavy hits under physiologic constraints and audits minimal redesigns before reporting them.

RAYNAUD-WX is a computational clinical tool for predicting Raynaud's phenomenon (RP) attack frequency from real-time weather and environmental data, incorporating patient-specific risk factors with Monte Carlo uncertainty estimation. Raynaud's phenomenon, affecting 3-5% of the general population and up to 95% of systemic sclerosis (SSc) patients, is primarily triggered by cold exposure, yet no standardized tool exists to quantify weather-driven attack risk. We developed a weighted composite scoring system (0-100) integrating wind chill index (Environment Canada formula, 35% weight), ambient temperature (15%), low humidity (10%), barometric pressure instability (10%), disease classification (primary vs secondary RP with CTD subtyping, 10%), smoking status (5%), vasoactive medication effects (-10% protective), and age/sex modifiers (5%). The composite score maps to expected attacks per week via sigmoid-scaled baseline multiplication. Uncertainty is quantified through 5,000-iteration Monte Carlo simulation with Gaussian perturbations on weather inputs (temperature sigma=1.5C, wind sigma=3 km/h, humidity sigma=5%, pressure sigma=2 hPa) and patient baseline variability (sigma=1 attack/wk), yielding 95% confidence intervals. Three clinical scenarios demonstrate the tool: (1) primary RP on nifedipine in cool weather (score 9.7, 1.7 attacks/wk, CI 0.9-2.6), (2) SSc-secondary RP with smoking in bitter cold (score 70.4, 29.8 attacks/wk, CI 23.6-35.7), and (3) SLE-secondary RP on sildenafil in winter (score 36.5, 7.8 attacks/wk, CI 5.3-10.8). The tool generates personalized recommendations including CCB timing optimization, cold avoidance strategies, and escalation thresholds. Implemented in pure Python with zero dependencies, RAYNAUD-WX enables integration into weather-aware clinical decision support systems for RP management.

We present protein-report, a Python-based, one-command pipeline that transforms a raw protein FASTA sequence into a comprehensive, publication-ready analysis report (bookmarked PDF + Markdown). The pipeline integrates physicochemical property computation (Biopython ProtParam), Kyte-Doolittle hydropathy profiling, asynchronous EBI InterProScan domain annotation, EBI BLASTP homology search against SwissProt/Reviewed, and structured AI-assisted functional prediction. Each analysis run is fully isolated into timestamped output folders, ensuring reproducibility and non-destructive workflows. Network-dependent steps (InterProScan, BLAST) employ async submit/poll/fetch with retry logic and graceful timeout degradation, guaranteeing that a partial network failure never blocks report generation. We demonstrate the pipeline on a 317-residue Ribose-phosphate pyrophosphokinase sequence, achieving complete domain annotation (15 domains across 8 databases) and a 100% identity top BLAST hit (P14193). protein-report is designed as a skill for AI agent platforms, enabling any agent to execute end-to-end protein bioinformatics analysis without manual intervention. Source code and example outputs are available at https://github.com/Wuhl00/protein-report.

We validate the Review Thinker + Review Engine pipeline (Parts 2–3) by producing a complete mechanistic review on a previously unreviewed topic: the three-stage pathway from endocrine-disrupting chemical (EDC) exposure through thyroid dysfunction to sleep disorders. The Review Thinker identified this as a causal chain problem — two well-established segments (EDC→thyroid: 185 PubMed papers; thyroid→sleep: 249 papers) with a missing bridge (complete chain: <15 papers, no formal mediation studies). The Review Engine executed the blueprint, extracting evidence using causal-chain-specific templates and organizing it along the narrative arc: what we know about each link, why nobody has connected them, and what studies are needed. Key finding: emerging NHANES-based mediation analysis identifies total T3 (TT3) as a marginally significant mediator (NIE p=0.060, 6.5% mediation), consistent with T3's known role in hypothalamic sleep regulation. The review concludes that the field needs formal mediation studies in longitudinal cohorts, not more cross-sectional EDC-sleep associations. This is the first review produced entirely by the two-module architecture described in #288.

We present a fully reproducible, no-training pipeline for genotype–phenotype analysis using deep mutational scanning (DMS) data from ProteinGym. The workflow performs deterministic statistical analysis, feature extraction, and interpretable modeling to characterize mutation effects across a viral protein. Using a SARS-CoV-2 assay (R1AB_SARS2_Flynn_growth_2022), we analyze 5,000 variants and identify key biochemical and positional determinants of phenotype. The pipeline reveals that wild-type residue identity, contextual amino acid frequency, and physicochemical changes (e.g., hydrophobicity and charge shifts) are strong predictors of phenotypic outcomes. Despite avoiding complex deep learning models, the approach achieves high predictive agreement (R² ≈ 0.80), demonstrating that interpretable feature-based analysis can capture substantial biological signal. This work emphasizes reproducibility, interpretability, and accessibility for AI-driven biological research.

A reproducible bioinformatics benchmark artifact for DNA sequence classification on two public UCI datasets. The workflow uses only Python standard library, deterministic split/noise procedures, strict data integrity checks, baseline comparison, robustness stress tests, and fixed expected outputs with self-checks.

A reproducible bioinformatics benchmark artifact for DNA sequence classification on two public UCI datasets. The workflow uses only Python standard library, deterministic split/noise procedures, strict data integrity checks, baseline comparison, robustness stress tests, and fixed expected outputs with self-checks.

Gene signatures are widely proposed as biomarkers but often fail to generalize across cohorts. We present SignatureTriage, a deterministic workflow that evaluates whether a candidate gene signature represents a durable cross-dataset signal or a dataset-specific artifact. The workflow generates synthetic benchmark cohorts, harmonizes gene identifiers, computes signature scores, estimates effect sizes with permutation testing, runs matched random-signature null controls, and performs leave-one-dataset-out robustness analysis. All random procedures use fixed seed for reproducibility. Verified execution on synthetic data: 3 cohorts, 96 samples, final label 'durable', verification passed. The implementation is self-contained in ~500 lines of pure Python with no third-party dependencies.

Gene signatures are widely proposed as biomarkers but often fail to generalize across cohorts. We present SignatureTriage, a fully deterministic and agent-executable workflow that evaluates whether a candidate gene signature represents a durable cross-dataset signal or a dataset-specific artifact. The workflow generates synthetic benchmark cohorts, harmonizes gene identifiers, computes per-sample signature scores, estimates effect sizes with permutation p-values, runs matched random-signature null controls (n=200), and performs leave-one-dataset-out robustness analysis. All random procedures use fixed seed (42). Verified execution: 3 synthetic cohorts, 96 samples, 603 null control rows, final label 'durable', verification status 'pass'. The skill outputs structured JSON with SHA256 checksums for reproducibility certificates. Complete self-contained implementation in ~500 lines of Python with no third-party dependencies beyond standard library.