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DeepTaxa is a hybrid CNN-BERT deep learning framework for multi-rank taxonomic classification of 16S rRNA gene sequences. It predicts all seven Linnaean ranks from domain to species in a single forward pass and provides pre-trained checkpoints for full-length 16S and V3-V4 amplicons.

standR is an user-friendly R package providing functions to assist conducting good-practice analysis of Nanostring's GeoMX DSP data. All functions in the package are built based on the SpatialExperiment object, allowing integration into various spatial transcriptomics-related packages from Bioconductor. standR allows data inspection, quality control, normalization, batch correction and evaluation with informative visualizations.

A cross-platform and ultrafast toolkit for FASTA/Q file manipulation in Golang.

Tools to compute and visualize overlaps between gene sets or genomic regions. Venn diagrams with proportional areas are provided, while UpSet plots are recommended for larger numbers of sets. The package supports GRanges and GRangesList inputs, and integrates with analysis workflows for ChIP-seq, ATAC-seq, and other genomic interval data. It generates clean, interpretable, and publication-ready figures.

A package for creating fast and accurate interatomic potentials.

Learning operators in Fourier space

Toolkit for identification and statistical testing of RNA editing signals from within R. Provides support for identifying sites from bulk-RNA and single cell RNA-seq datasets, and general methods for extraction of allelic read counts from alignment files. Facilitates annotation and exploratory analysis of editing signals using Bioconductor packages and resources.

Ensemble of automated QM workflows that can be run through jupyter notebooks, command lines and yaml files.

Compare differential gene expression results with those from known cellular perturbations (such as gene knock-down, overexpression or small molecules) derived from the Connectivity Map. Such analyses allow not only to infer the molecular causes of the observed difference in gene expression but also to identify small molecules that could drive or revert specific transcriptomic alterations.

Long-context generative genomic foundation model using 6-mer tokenization for DNA sequence modeling and generation, with v2 model families for prokaryote and eukaryote genomes and pretrained weights available on HuggingFace (GenerTeam, 460+ stars, MIT License, 2025-2026)

LLM papers for scientific discovery

"rhinotypeR" is designed to automate the comparison of sequence data against prototype strains, streamlining the genotype assignment process. By implementing predefined pairwise distance thresholds, this package makes genotype assignment accessible to researchers and public health professionals. This tool enhances our epidemiological toolkit by enabling more efficient surveillance and analysis of rhinoviruses (RVs) and other viral pathogens with complex genomic landscapes. Additionally, "rhinotypeR" supports comprehensive visualization and analysis of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and amino acid substitutions, facilitating in-depth genetic and evolutionary studies.

Family of large language models for materials research via continued pretraining of LLaMA-2/3 on ~30B materials science tokens, outperforming commercial LLMs on materials science tasks while identifying "adaptation rigidity" in overtrained models; includes MatNLP benchmark and CIF crystal generation capabilities (IIT Delhi M3RG, MIT License)

Polymathic AI's large omnimodal foundation model for astronomical surveys, seamlessly integrating 39 distinct data modalities including imaging, spectra, photometry, and catalog entries for similarity search, property prediction, and generative modeling across legacy surveys (MIT)

Galaxy Tool Shed repositories maintained and developed by the GalaxyP community

compareMS2 is a tool for comparing sets of (tandem) mass spectra for clustering samples, molecular phylogenetics, identification of biological species or tissues, and quality control. compareMS2 currently consumes Mascot Generic Format, or MGF, and produces output in a variety of common image and distance matrix formats.

This package addresses two broad areas. It allows for in-depth analysis of spatial transcriptomic data by identifying tissue neighbourhoods. These are contiguous regions of tissue surrounding individual cells. 'CatsCradle' allows for the categorisation of neighbourhoods by the cell types contained in them and the genes expressed in them. In particular, it produces Seurat objects whose individual elements are neighbourhoods rather than cells. In addition, it enables the categorisation and annotation of genes by producing Seurat objects whose elements are genes.

Medical time series foundation model pretrained on 454B time points from heterogeneous clinical corpora spanning ICU physiological signals and hospital EHR, with continuous-time rotary positional encoding, frequency-specialized Mixture-of-Experts, and neural ODE extrapolation for zero-shot forecasting across irregular and multimodal temporal health data (Microsoft, 399+ stars, MIT License)

Gene regulatory networks model the underlying gene regulation hierarchies that drive gene expression and observed phenotypes. Epiregulon infers TF activity in single cells by constructing a gene regulatory network (regulons). This is achieved through integration of scATAC-seq and scRNA-seq data and incorporation of public bulk TF ChIP-seq data. Links between regulatory elements and their target genes are established by computing correlations between chromatin accessibility and gene expressions.

MCP server, CLI, and agent skills for searching and downloading academic papers from multiple open sources (arXiv, PubMed, bioRxiv, Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, CORE, Europe PMC, etc.) with unified, deduplicated, LLM-friendly retrieval and an OA-first download fallback chain (OpenAGS, 1.9K+ stars, MIT License, 2025)

First agentic LLM for autonomous data science with end-to-end pipeline from data to analyst-grade reports

scToppR provides an easy-to-use API wrapper for the ToppGene web platform, used for gene ontology and functional enrichment research. The package also integrates visualization tools, making it a convenient tool directly connecting ToppGene to code-based workflows in R. The tool can also easily save results into different formats.

The package implements an algorithm for fast gene set enrichment analysis. Using the fast algorithm allows to make more permutations and get more fine grained p-values, which allows to use accurate stantard approaches to multiple hypothesis correction.

Cython + HTSlib == fast VCF parsing; even faster parsing than pyVCF.

Provides hurdle negative binomial models for differential expression analysis with long-read RNA-Seq data.

Provides a streamlined workflow for clustering and visualizing gene expression patterns, particularly from time-series RNA-Seq and single-cell experiments. The package is designed to integrate seamlessly within the Bioconductor ecosystem by operating directly on standard data classes such as `SummarizedExperiment` and `SingleCellExperiment`. It implements common clustering algorithms (e.g., k-means, fuzzy c-means) and generates a suite of publication-ready visualizations to explore co-expressed gene modules. Functions are also included to facilitate the visualization of clustering results derived from other popular tools.

Autonomous AI scientist research

R Package for interactive visualization and browsing NGS data. It contains a browser for both transcript and genomic coordinate view. In addition a QC and general metaplots are included, among others differential translation plots and gene expression plots. The package is still under development.

RBPBench is a multi-function tool to evaluate CLIP-seq and other related genomic region data using a comprehensive collection of known RNA-binding protein (RBP) binding motifs. RBPBench can be used for a variety of purposes, from RBP motif search (database or user-supplied RBP motifs) in genomic regions, over motif enrichment and co-occurrence analysis, in-depth comparisons over multiple datasets via sequence and genomic annotation statistics, to benchmarking CLIP-seq peak caller methods as well as comparisons across cell types and CLIP-seq protocols. RBPBench supports both sequence and structure motifs, as well as regular expressions (sequence and structure patterns). Moreover, users can easily provide their own motif collections.

A powerful, high-performance bioinformatics framework for discovering, evaluating, and verifying microRNA (miRNA) interactions across DNA, RNA, and protein target sequences. The mirnaprotpred package provides two core modules: SeqFinder: A discovery engine to find all potential miRNA interactions across a genome or target sequence. Validator: A targeted verification engine to test specific, user-provided miRNAs against a target sequence. Both modules are powered by a shared, rigorous biological engine that evaluates exact seed matching, wobble pairing, AU-rich context, and RNAduplex thermodynamic stability.

PhantasusLite – a lightweight package with helper functions of general interest extracted from phantasus package. In parituclar it simplifies working with public RNA-seq datasets from GEO by providing access to the remote HSDS repository with the precomputed gene counts from ARCHS4 and DEE2 projects.

This package implements a metabolic network analysis pipeline to identify an active metabolic module based on high throughput data. The pipeline takes as input transcriptional and/or metabolic data and finds a metabolic subnetwork (module) most regulated between the two conditions of interest. The package further provides functions for module post-processing, annotation and visualization.

Cross-domain foundation model for continuum dynamics trained on 19 physical scenarios spanning 63 variables, featuring adaptive compute via stride modulation and patch jittering for long-run stability (Polymathic AI, 293+ stars, MIT License)

Provides a reproducible and modular workflow for absolute microbial quantification using spike-in controls. Supports both single spike-in taxa and synthetic microbial communities with user-defined spike-in volumes and genome copy numbers. Compatible with 'phyloseq' and 'TreeSummarizedExperiment' (TSE) data structures. The package implements methods for spike-in validation, preprocessing, scaling factor estimation, absolute abundance conversion, bias correction, and normalization. Facilitates downstream statistical analyses with 'DESeq2', 'edgeR', and other Bioconductor-compatible methods. Visualization tools are provided via 'ggplot2', 'ggtree', and related packages. Includes detailed vignettes, case studies, and function-level documentation to guide users through experimental design, quantification, and interpretation.

Autonomous multi-agent AI scientist that mirrors a PhD workflow: literature review → grounded hypothesis → real ML experiments → self-critique → write-up; features a deterministic harness with frozen-metric scoring, edit allowlists, and a verified registry to make reward-hacking and hallucination impossible, plus 108 unit tests runnable without API keys or GPUs (461+ stars, MIT License, 2026)

STADyUM is a package with functionality for analyzing nascent RNA read counts to infer transcription rates. This includes utilities for processing experimental nascent RNA read counts as well as for simulating PRO-seq data. Rates such as initiation, pause release and landing pad occupancy are estimated from either synthetic or experimental data. There are also options for varying pause sites and including steric hindrance of initiation in the model.

DenoIST identifies and removes contamination in Image-based Spatial Transcriptomics data, using a transposed poisson mixture model with local neighbourhood offsets to infer genes that are likely to be due to neighbourhood contamination rather than endogenous expression.

MeLSI (Metric Learning for Statistical Inference) is a novel machine learning method for microbiome data analysis that learns optimal distance metrics to improve statistical power in detecting group differences. Unlike traditional distance metrics (Bray-Curtis, Euclidean, Jaccard), MeLSI adapts to the specific characteristics of your dataset to maximize separation between groups. The method uses an ensemble of weak learners to identify which microbial features drive group differences, providing both improved statistical power and biological interpretability through feature importance weights.

Have you ever index sorted cells in a 96 or 384-well plate and then sequenced using Sanger sequencing? If so, you probably had some struggles to either check the electropherogram of each cell sequenced manually, or when you tried to identify which cell was sorted where after sequencing the plate. Scifer was developed to solve this issue by performing basic quality control of Sanger sequences and merging flow cytometry data from probed single-cell sorted B cells with sequencing data. scifer can export summary tables, 'fasta' files, electropherograms for visual inspection, and generate reports.

Diffusion-based document OCR framework replacing autoregressive decoding with block-level parallel diffusion decoding, enabling high-accuracy text recognition in scientific PDFs (613+ stars, MIT License)

pairedGSEA makes it simple to run a paired Differential Gene Expression (DGE) and Differencital Gene Splicing (DGS) analysis. The package allows you to store intermediate results for further investiation, if desired. pairedGSEA comes with a wrapper function for running an Over-Representation Analysis (ORA) and functionalities for plotting the results.

Annotate a VCF with other VCFs/BEDs/tabixed files.

Cross-platform system optimizations for accelerating AlphaFold3 training with 1.73x speedup and 1.23x memory reduction

Minimalist, batteries-included repository for training video world models with diffusion-forcing, supporting long-horizon rollouts, 3D point-cloud generation, and model-predictive control with pretrained checkpoints (Simchowitz Lab, 700+ stars, MIT License, 2026)

Learning the language of protein-protein interactions

Genomic foundation model for metagenomic and genome annotation, featuring an 8k base-pair context and 500M parameters trained on 386B base pairs of eukaryotic DNA; provides expert models and a unified CLI for prokaryotic/eukaryotic coding-sequence annotation with strong performance on Genomic Benchmarks, Nucleotide Transformer tasks, and custom Gener tasks (GenerTeam, 314+ stars, MIT License)

Automatic atomic model building program for cryo-EM maps using deep learning, enabling rapid de novo protein structure determination from electron density with high accuracy (3DEM/EMBL, 169+ stars)

Gene regulatory networks model the underlying gene regulation hierarchies that drive gene expression and observed phenotypes. Epiregulon infers TF activity in single cells by constructing a gene regulatory network (regulons). This is achieved through integration of scATAC-seq and scRNA-seq data and incorporation of public bulk TF ChIP-seq data. Links between regulatory elements and their target genes are established by computing correlations between chromatin accessibility and gene expressions.

Python library to train, interpret, and apply deep learning models to DNA sequences, providing a unified framework for regulatory genomics with support for CNN and transformer architectures, variant effect prediction, and attribution analysis (325+ stars)

General-purpose deep learning backbone for molecular modeling