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Biocomputation, AI and Q Capital.

August 2026bio-aiglass-boxaudit

Where thermodynamics wins: a regime contrast

We audited our own pipeline: the thermodynamic channel adds no value in missense (AUC +0.000 over the evolutionary signal, which already reaches ~0.90), but it classifies synonymous variants (AUC 0.63–0.71), where the protein language model is blind. Correcting your own record as the product.

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July 2026bio-aiglass-boxtool

The synonymous classifier fits in two physical variables

The synonymous CNN reduces to two interpretable physical observables — the signed stacking ΔΔG (Turner) + the G>A bias — that match it (AUC 0.68) and generalize across genes. Glass-box, deployable as pip install ef-synonymous + a free web tool.

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July 2026bio-aibenchmarkTECH-2

Benchmark: EnergyFingerprint vs CADD, REVEL, AlphaMissense

Formal comparison across 7 genes with a stratified meta-analysis. EF reaches ΔAUC of −0.024 to −0.040 against massive predictors — it sits below all three overall, and beats CADD in the sodium channel SCN1A (0.913 vs 0.832). Whether the signal is orthogonal and additive is a hypothesis yet to be tested.

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June 2026bio-aipaper

EnergyFingerprint: missense variant classification with thermodynamic profiles

A multichannel 1D CNN that combines the mRNA stacking free energy with evolutionary signal from ESMC-300M. 8 genes in the preprint, intra-gene AUC up to 0.99; 42-gene panel with results unpublished. Zero-shot transferability across protein families.

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May 2026bio-aipaper

Therapeutic mRNA optimization: the thermodynamic axis LinearDesign doesn't use

The stacking ΔG profile adds a dimension of its own next to secondary structure (78 % of its variance is neither composition nor base pairing). A dual optimizer: a computational proof of concept reaching more favourable ΔG and MFE values than BNT162b2 and mRNA-1273, without experimental validation.

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May 2026bio-aipapertrilogy

Pathogenic synonymous variants: the thermodynamic signal REVEL can't see

Synonymous variants don't change the protein but do change the mRNA's thermodynamic profile. A CNN predictor with pure thermodynamic signal: AUC 0.683 ± 0.018, not exceeding SpliceAI. Conceptual framework Λ = S ⊗ Φ.

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// collateral lines · lab exploration
July 2026 · collateral
collateralq_capital

Q Capital: energy turned into knowledge

A model of the firm where the unit of capital is neither the work hour nor the physical asset, but the token: the inference compute that, governed and captured, accrues as proprietary, defensible knowledge.

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July 2026 · collateral
collateralagent-boardgovernance

Agent Board: fail-closed governance for AI agents

A Kanban board where several agents collaborate under human supervision: fail-closed approval broker, hash-chain audit, RBAC and a multi-LLM adapter. Born as the testbed for the lab's pipelines.

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July 2026 · collateral
collateralagent-canvasdesign

Agent Canvas Model: design the agent before you code it

An adaptation of the Business Model Canvas into nine blocks to force the expensive decisions — segment, autonomy, KPIs, integrations, costs, risks — before writing a single line of code.

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