arXiv AI

BaseCamp --- An Agentic AI Framework for Automating DNA Sequencing Data Pipelines

BaseCamp is an agentic AI framework that automates the decision layer of DNA sequencing pipelines by deploying six specialized AI agents for tasks such as sample intake, quality control, alignment, variant calling, annotation, cross‑stage monitoring, and reporting. The agents rely on established bioinformatics tools for actual sequence analysis, while using fine‑tuned, domain‑specialized large language models to select, configure, and interpret these tools’ outputs, ensuring reproducibility and local data privacy. Evaluation demonstrates that the agents’ configurations align with expert practice, provide an explicit filtering ledger for traceability, and detect anomalies that traditional monitoring may miss.

arXiv AI
Jun 9

A case study of evaluating AI agents on a neuroscience data-to-discovery pipeline

arXiv:2606. 07718v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic AI tools offer a promising path to automating software development bottlenecks in scientific research pipelines, particularly for stages that take domain experts days to months to build, where scientists care about correctness and robustness, not implementation details.

By Kai A. Horstmann, Ethan Lin, Alice A. Robie, Jennifer J. Sun, Kristin Branson
arXiv AI
Jun 2

AutoMedBench: Towards Medical AutoResearch with Agentic AI Models

arXiv:2606. 01961v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous agents are increasingly expected to support end-to-end medical-AI research workflows, moving beyond isolated prediction tasks or short-form clinical question answering.

By Junqi Liu, Salena Song, Yuhan Wang, Jiawei Mao, Hardy Chen, Xiaoke Huang, Tianhao Qi, Pengfei Guo, Yucheng Tang, Yufan He, Can Zhao, Andriy Myronenko, Dong Yang, Daguang Xu, Yuyin Zhou
arXiv AI
Aug 12

DSAgentBench: Can Agents Automate End-to-End Data-Science Workflows in Real Computer Environments?

arXiv:2608. 10366v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world data science involves long-horizon workflows that span data wrangling, exploration, modeling, visualization, and validation, and require coordinated use of tools such as notebooks, IDEs, terminals, browsers, and databases within real operating environments.

By Mizanur Rahman, Mohammed Saidul Islam, Ridwan Mahbub, Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar, Shafiq Joty, Enamul Hoque Prince
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 25

LabFactory: Building and Evaluating Executable AI Labs

LabFactory is a framework that transforms a scientific brief into an executable AI lab, integrating models, knowledge resources, tools, and a controller behind a fixed interface. The builder packages the lab in a metered workspace, and a separate host evaluates the delivered artifact on held‑out inputs, ensuring the system itself is the evaluation target. Across 28 constructions in seven scientific domains, the delivered labs surpassed reference values on all 33 subtests, demonstrating that an AI agent can fully realize a scientific brief into a working, inspectable lab.

By Jinge Wu, Hongjian Zhou, Mingde Zeng, Jiayuan Zhu, Junde Wu, Jiazhen Pan, Lei Clifton, Andrew Liu, David A. Clifton
arXiv AI
Sep 4

Bioinfoysis Technical Report

The Bioinfoysis Technical Report introduces a multi‑agent harness designed to improve long‑horizon bioinformatics tasks by maintaining persistent, artifact‑grounded analysis runs. It combines global planning with step‑wise, evidence‑driven replanning, ensuring intermediate results are tied to responsible agents and preventing stale evidence reuse. The system was evaluated on BixBench and LAB‑Bench 2, achieving state‑of‑the‑art accuracy and demonstrating that reliable bioinformatics automation relies on robust planning, execution, memory, and evidence flow.

By Qingyang Shao, Xin Zhang, Zhouyang Yuan, Xianying Chen, Yujia Xiang, Zihao Yang, Tong Ye, Yangqi Zhang, Jiakang Xu, Xiaoqing Yan, Xuan Luo, Keyi Li, Enci Fan, Kai Kang, Zhuohan Liu, Xingyu Jin, Chunran Teng, Tao Li, Xinyu Lv, Minghui Wang, Wenfeng Li, Yidan Gao, Siyu Liu, Mingrui Luo, Zhu Liang, Guanren Qiao, Zhiping Xu
arXiv AI
Jul 7

Automated Data Readiness for Scientific AI

arXiv:2607. 02771v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Leadership computing facilities steward large-scale scientific datasets that routinely require substantial transformation before serving as AI training data.

By Sean R. Wilkinson, Valentine G. Anantharaj, Jong Youl Choi, Ketan Maheshwari, Marshall McDonnell, Massimiliano Lupo Pasini, Polina Shpilker, Renan Souza, Patrick Widener, Sarp Oral, Wesley Brewer