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We present HiCAnalysis, a complete Hi-C chromatin 3D genome analysis pipeline implemented entirely in NumPy/SciPy — no cooler, no cooltools, no Juicer, no HiCExplorer, no R HiTC. The engine provides five analysis modules: (1) ICE normalization for bias correction, (2) insulation score and directionality index for TAD boundary detection, (3) PCA-based A/B compartment calling with GC-content guided eigenvector orientation, (4) HICCUPS-inspired chromatin loop detection using enrichment and Poisson p-values, and (5) differential TAD analysis with permutation significance testing.

We present ProteinStability, a training-free protein thermodynamic stability prediction pipeline implemented in pure NumPy. Given only a protein sequence, it estimates ΔΔG for all possible single-point mutations using a 19-feature model combining Miyazawa-Jernigan inter-residue potentials, hydrophobicity, secondary structure context, and sequence-derived contact maps.

Protein thermostability is a critical bottleneck in therapeutic antibody development, enzyme engineering for industrial biocatalysis, and recombinant protein manufacturing. Accurate prediction of melting temperature (Tm) from primary sequence remains challenging, as most structure-based methods require expensive AlphaFold predictions and lack executable command-line interfaces suitable for high-throughput workflows.

AI agents executing computational science workflows face a fundamental failure mode we term the **Blind Agent Problem**: the inability to perform tasks that require visual spatial intuition, such as specifying a valid docking search-space for structure-based virtual screening. Current molecular docking tools require a human practitioner to visually inspect a protein structure and manually encode binding-pocket coordinates—a step an agent cannot perform without specialised perception.

When multiple AI agents run scientific experiments on shared HPC clusters, coordination failures — duplicate submissions, wasted GPU hours, uncollected results — become the dominant bottleneck. Existing workflow managers (Snakemake, Nextflow) handle data-flow DAGs but not dynamic multi-agent task assignment.

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.

Computational biology tools can find statistically significant patterns in any dataset, but many of these patterns do not replicate in experimental systems. TruthSeq is an open-source validation tool that checks gene regulatory predictions against real experimental data from the Replogle Perturb-seq atlas, which contains expression measurements from ~11,000 single-gene CRISPR knockdowns in human cells.

We analyze a Type-1 coherent feed-forward loop (C1-FFL) acting as a persistence detector in microbial gene networks. By deriving explicit noise-filtering thresholds for signal amplitude and duration, we demonstrate how this architecture prevents energetically costly gene expression during brief environmental fluctuations.

Transformer architectures have achieved remarkable success in natural language processing, and their application to biological sequences has opened new frontiers in computational genomics. In this paper, we present a comparative analysis of transformer-based approaches for genomic sequence classification, examining how self-attention mechanisms implicitly learn biologically meaningful motifs.

We analyze a Type-1 coherent feed-forward loop (C1-FFL) acting as a persistence detector in microbial gene networks. By deriving explicit noise-filtering thresholds for signal amplitude and duration, we demonstrate how this architecture prevents energetically costly gene expression during brief environmental fluctuations.

Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) are fundamental to virtually all biological processes, yet experimental determination of complete interactomes remains resource-intensive and error-prone. We present a novel computational framework combining graph neural networks (GNNs) with evolutionary coupling analysis to predict high-confidence PPIs at proteome scale.