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  1. 1. A ReAct Agentic AI System for Natural Language Querying and Statistical Analysis of The Cancer Genome Atlas Clinical Data

    The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) holds clinical data for over 11,000 patients across 33 cancer types, but access is hard because of complex file structures, heterogeneous formats, and the need for programming.

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  2. 2. Universal scaling relationships of marine and terrestrial photoautotrophs with differing developmental trajectories

    Backgrounds and Aims: Partitioning of biomass to various organs is fundamental to growth and survival strategies of plant species, with broad-scale ecological implications from competition to carbon flux of ecosystems.

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  3. 3. vep-rs: high-throughput Rust variant annotation with population-scale concordance to Ensembl VEP

    Summary: Ensembl VEP is the de facto reference for variant consequence annotation, but its Perl implementation limits throughput, and the open reimplementation benchmarked here is validated on a set too small to bound…

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