Ladon embeds 1M RNA-seq samples to let Claude search biology, not text
ycombinator · x · 2026-07-28
Ladon embeds more than 1 million public RNA-seq samples into a shared biological space and exposes that space through MCP so Claude can search by biological similarity instead of text.
- The project spans 20+ years of public transcriptomics data.
- The goal is to retrieve studies by transcriptomic signature — what changed biologically — rather than by titles, abstracts, or keywords.
- The authors argue this could make AI agents better at scientific discovery because they can search the biology itself, not just the literature metadata.
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