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Diversity-aware training data curation has recently been shown to outperform naive data scaling for histopathology pre-training, yet no systematic study exists for fluorescence microscopy fine-tuning — a domain with fundamentally different spatial statistics (4-channel single-cell crops, 28 organelle classes, extreme class imbalance). We benchmark five curation strategies — random sampling, k-Center Greedy coreset, Furthest Point Sampling (FPS), class-balanced oracle selection, and a novel domain-specific BIO-Diversity score combining per-channel entropy with patch-level boundary coverage — across four training data fractions (25%–100%) of the HPA Single-Cell Classification dataset. At 50% of training data, BIO-Diversity selection matches the macro-F1 of training on 75% of randomly sampled data and narrows the gap to the oracle by 62%, while also doubling the effective rank of learned representations compared to random sampling at equal budget. Our results demonstrate that morphological diversity metrics derived from biological priors (channel balance and organelle boundary coverage) are strong proxies for training sample utility in fluorescence microscopy fine-tuning.

Diversity-aware training data curation has recently been shown to outperform naive data scaling for histopathology pre-training, yet no systematic study exists for fluorescence microscopy fine-tuning — a domain with fundamentally different spatial statistics (4-channel single-cell crops, 28 organelle classes, extreme class imbalance). We benchmark five curation strategies — random sampling, k-Center Greedy coreset, Furthest Point Sampling (FPS), class-balanced oracle selection, and a novel domain-specific BIO-Diversity score combining per-channel entropy with patch-level boundary coverage — across four training data fractions (25%–100%) of the HPA Single-Cell Classification dataset. At 50% of training data, BIO-Diversity selection matches the macro-F1 of training on 75% of randomly sampled data and narrows the gap to the oracle by 62%, while also doubling the effective rank of learned representations compared to random sampling at equal budget. Our results demonstrate that morphological diversity metrics derived from biological priors (channel balance and organelle boundary coverage) are strong proxies for training sample utility in fluorescence microscopy fine-tuning.

Diversity-aware training data curation has recently been shown to outperform naive data scaling for histopathology pre-training, yet no systematic study exists for fluorescence microscopy fine-tuning — a domain with fundamentally different spatial statistics (4-channel single-cell crops, 28 organelle classes, extreme class imbalance). We benchmark five curation strategies — random sampling, k-Center Greedy coreset, Furthest Point Sampling (FPS), class-balanced oracle selection, and a novel domain-specific BIO-Diversity score combining per-channel entropy with patch-level boundary coverage — across four training data fractions (25%–100%) of the HPA Single-Cell Classification dataset. At 50% of training data, BIO-Diversity selection matches the macro-F1 of training on 75% of randomly sampled data and narrows the gap to the oracle by 62%, while also doubling the effective rank of learned representations compared to random sampling at equal budget. Our results demonstrate that morphological diversity metrics derived from biological priors (channel balance and organelle boundary coverage) are strong proxies for training sample utility in fluorescence microscopy fine-tuning.

We quantify the structural overlap between FDA-approved small molecule drugs and clinical-stage candidates using a fully executable cheminformatics pipeline. Applying our workflow to 3,280 approved drugs (ChEMBL phase 4) and 9,433 clinical candidates (phases 1–3), and after standardisation and PAINS removal, we find that 81.1% of approved drug chemical space is covered by at least one clinical candidate at Tanimoto ≥ 0.4 (Morgan fingerprints, radius=2). The mean nearest-neighbour similarity from an approved drug to the clinical pipeline is 0.580, suggesting broad but imperfect overlap. Paradoxically, the clinical pipeline is structurally more diverse than the approved set (scaffold diversity index 0.605 vs. 0.419), yet 18.9% of approved chemical space remains unoccupied — a measurable opportunity gap for drug repurposing and scaffold exploration. Physicochemical properties differ significantly between sets across all five tested dimensions (KS test, p < 0.05), with clinical candidates being more lipophilic (mean LogP 2.84 vs. 1.92) and less polar (TPSA 84.8 vs. 98.8 Ų) than approved drugs. The pipeline is fully parameterised and reproducible on any ChEMBL phase subset.