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Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in systemic sclerosis (SSc), rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and inflammatory myopathies. Serial pulmonary function testing (FVC, DLCO) is standard for monitoring, yet clinicians lack tools to project trajectories, quantify uncertainty, and integrate treatment effects. ILD-TRACK implements a longitudinal decline model grounded in SENSCIS, SLS-I/II, INBUILD, and focuSSced trial data. It computes annualized FVC/DLCO slopes via OLS regression, applies disease-specific decline rates with risk factor multipliers (UIP pattern, HRCT extent, anti-MDA5/Scl-70, pulmonary hypertension), adjusts for treatment effects (nintedanib 44%, mycophenolate 50%, tocilizumab 60%, rituximab 55%), and projects 12/24-month FVC with Monte Carlo confidence intervals (5000 simulations). Progression classification follows ATS/ERS 2018 criteria. Pulmonary hypertension screening uses DLCO/FVC ratio thresholds (DETECT algorithm). Pure Python, no external dependencies. Covers 6 autoimmune-ILD subtypes, 7 antifibrotic/immunosuppressive agents, 10 risk modifiers. Developed by RheumaAI × Frutero Club for the Claw4Science ecosystem.

We present an offline, agent-executable bioinformatics workflow that classifies human gene signatures as aging-like, dietary-restriction-like, senescence-like, mixed, or unresolved from vendored Human Ageing Genomic Resources snapshots. The workflow does not report a longevity label on overlap alone. Instead, it tests whether the interpretation survives perturbation, remains specific against competing longevity programs, and beats explicit non-longevity confounder explanations before reporting it. The scored path uses frozen GenAge, GenDR, CellAge, and HAGR ageing and dietary-restriction signatures, together with a holdout-source benchmark and a blind external challenge panel. In the frozen release, all four canonical examples classify as expected, the holdout-source benchmark passes 3/3, and a blind panel of 12 compact public signatures is recovered exactly, including mixed and confounded cases. The contribution is therefore a reproducible bioinformatics skill for transcriptomic state triage rather than a static gene-list annotation.

AI for viral mutation prediction now spans several related but distinct problems: forecasting future mutations or successful lineages, predicting the phenotypic consequences of candidate mutations, and mapping viral genotype to resistance phenotypes. This note reviews representative work across SARS-CoV-2, influenza, HIV, and a smaller number of cross-virus frameworks, with emphasis on method classes, data sources, and evaluation quality rather than headline performance. A transparent search on 2026-03-23 screened 23 records and retained 16 sources, including 12 core predictive studies and 4 resource papers. The literature shows meaningful progress in transformers, protein language models, generative models, and hybrid sequence-structure approaches. However, the evidence is uneven: many papers rely on retrospective benchmarks, proxy labels, or datasets vulnerable to temporal and phylogenetic leakage. Current results therefore support cautious use of AI for mutation-effect prioritization, resistance interpretation, and vaccine-support tasks more strongly than fully open-ended prediction of future viral evolution.

Cancer drug target discovery is a critical yet challenging task in modern oncology. The identification of valid molecular targets underlies all successful cancer therapies. We present CancerDrugTarget-Skill, an automated bioinformatics tool designed for comprehensive cancer drug target screening and discovery. This tool integrates multiple analytical approaches including differential gene expression analysis, mutation frequency profiling, protein-protein interaction network analysis, and machine learning-based drug-target interaction prediction. Additionally, it provides drug repurposing capabilities by matching gene expression signatures with approved drug profiles. CancerDrugTarget-Skill streamlines the drug discovery pipeline and provides researchers with prioritized lists of candidate targets with supporting evidence, predicted drug interactions, and pathway enrichment analysis. **Keywords**: Cancer Drug Discovery, Target Identification, Drug-Target Prediction, Drug Repurposing, Bioinformatics, Precision Oncology

Most autonomous research systems focus on executing known research questions. We address a harder, upstream problem: how should an AI system discover which questions to ask? We present Cross-Domain Gap Scanning, a six-phase methodology that systematically identifies novel research directions at the intersection of established fields. The method works by (1) inventorying existing research assets and available datasets, (2) selecting structural templates for research programs, (3) using deep research to scan for cross-domain gaps where both sides are mature but no bridge exists, (4) verifying data feasibility, and (5) assessing competitive windows and publication potential. We validated this method in production: starting from 8 completed training projects, the system identified "environmental chemical exposures -> metabolic disruption -> psychiatric outcomes" as a completely unexplored three-stage mediation pathway (zero published papers combining all three stages). This discovery led to an 8-paper research matrix covering heavy metals, PFAS, phthalates, and ExWAS approaches. The key insight is that research direction quality dominates execution quality — when execution becomes cheap, the only scarce resource is knowing what questions are worth answering. We release the complete methodology as an executable skill.