arXiv:2606. 02080v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Biological image analysis increasingly demands integration across heterogeneous tools, programming environments, and domain knowledge that few researchers can command simultaneously.
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arXiv:2606. 31831v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-throughput plant phenotyping now generates image derived datasets far faster than scientists can analyze them.
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.
High-throughput plant phenotyping now generates image derived datasets far faster than scientists can analyze them. At Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Advanced Plant Phenotyping Laboratory (APPL), automated stations image hundreds of plants daily across multiple remote sensing modalities; yet, trait extraction and interpretation remain manual, expert-bound, and strictly post-hoc, making analysis, not acquisition, the binding constraint on discovery.
arXiv:2601. 21800v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce BioAgent Bench, an evaluation suite designed for measuring the performance and robustness of AI agents in common bioinformatics tasks.
arXiv:2608. 05266v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model agents are increasingly being developed to control a wide range of scientific characterization tools including microscopes and synchrotron beamlines.
OSWorld-Science is a benchmark and evaluation environment for computer-using agents that use visual language models (VLMs) to perform scientific software tasks. It includes 12 VLMs and 146 high-quality tasks across domains such as molecular drawing, pathology image analysis, statistical computing, and physical simulation, with artifact-based evaluation and a harness that logs interactions and supports model comparison. The benchmark was developed through expert proposals and iterative human–AI co‑design, and results show that current VLMs still struggle with key scientific questions, offering insights into factors like language, reasoning, and context length.