AI × bioinformatics for global health 🧬🤖 | PhD researcher @HPI_DE and @broadinstitute | @codecurious_bln co-founder
Berlin, Germany
Joined February 2015
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Use of AI agents is becoming more prevalent in science. But in an outbreak, a single wrong sequence can shift what we think a virus came from, or if a treatment still works.
We ask, can a deterministic retrieval layer fix the unreliability of AI agents querying NCBI Virus?
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Quick paper overview video:
youtube.com/watch?v=QiP65fft…
The paper:
openreview.net/forum?id=xjCJ…
Try the beta version of our tool for free at auditowl.ai. We'd be super interested in your feedback!
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Code is the blind spot of peer review, and many serious errors that may invalidate a paper's conclusions can stay hidden in scientific repositories. We study whether coding agents can help make code review feasible for science.
Check out our paper, where we apply agentic scientific code review to 100 NeurIPS 2025 papers (link below), and meet us at NeurIPS 2026!
We find that codebases are often missing, incomplete, or contain methodological problems.
We think that AI-auditing can make computational science more rigorous and reproducible!
Thanks to my co-first @ferbsx, and co-authors Katharina Baum and Bernhard Renard.
The bottleneck for AI in science isn't just smarter models. It's the missing infrastructure and trust to rely on them.
gget virus is one piece of that. The bigger goal is still to make AI genuinely able to accelerate global health.
That's the future I want to help build! 🚀
"Using AI agents to navigate biological data infrastructure is like driving through an old city that was designed before cars." @NeuroLuebbert in the @AnthropicAI blog post about our work.
Adding highway tunnels, like gget virus, is the fix!
anthropic.com/research/agent…
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New Science Blog: Why has AI advanced faster in coding than in biology?
To agents, bio databases are like cities built before cars—maddening to drive in because they're designed for different traffic.
How do we build infrastructure agents can use?
anthropic.com/research/agent…
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For a case study in why proper sequence retrieval matters - we look for existing Ebolavirus mutations in the footprints (spheres) of WHO priority antibodies for the ongoing outbreak.
Without the right tools, the initial sequence sets are wrong, and downstream analysis fails.
New Science Blog: Why has AI advanced faster in coding than in biology?
To agents, bio databases are like cities built before cars—maddening to drive in because they're designed for different traffic.
How do we build infrastructure agents can use?
anthropic.com/research/agent…
AI is incredible for speeding up science, but in an outbreak response, one data error can have life-or-death consequences.
Super proud to share our work showing how deterministic retrieval layers bridge this gap to guarantee 100% reliable workflows for global health security!
New Science Blog: Why has AI advanced faster in coding than in biology?
To agents, bio databases are like cities built before cars—maddening to drive in because they're designed for different traffic.
How do we build infrastructure agents can use?
anthropic.com/research/agent…
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Ferdous Nasri presenting her work on the 'Spatio-temporal immunity index tool for infectious diseases' at the Digital Health Summit @UCT_news in Cape Town, South Africa!
ALT Ferdous joyously next to her poster at UCT.
Happy that I had the honour of presenting my work at the Digital Health Summit in Cape Town, and got the chance to get into great discussions with researchers on the continent!
Thanks to @ictdchick for organising the summit and bringing us all together 💐
ALT Group photo of the Digital Health Summit attendees at the University of Cape Town in South Africa.
ALT Ferdous presenting a poster of her research on "Spatio-temporal immunity index tool for infectious diseases"
Happy that I had the honour of presenting my work at the Digital Health Summit in Cape Town, and got the chance to get into great discussions with researchers on the continent!
Thanks to @ictdchick for organising the summit and bringing us all together 💐
ALT Group photo of the Digital Health Summit attendees at the University of Cape Town in South Africa.
ALT Ferdous presenting a poster of her research on "Spatio-temporal immunity index tool for infectious diseases"
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... and that's a wrap from our group at #ECCB2024!
Thank you and congratulations to @EloLab_fi, @nyronen and
the organising teams for bringing together such a great conference!
Looking forward to the next @ECCBinfo 🚀 – at Turku, Finland
ALT Group photo in front of the ECCB banner. Smiling faces from left: Bernhard Renard, Julian Zabbarov, Ferdous Nasri, Yannick Hartmaring, Tobias Pietz, Marta Lemanczyk, Simon Witzke, and Katharina Baum.
Happy to present my work @ECCBinfo!
Thanks for all the great conversations during the poster session. Feel free to reach out if you missed it! Always happy to discuss :)
Check out Ferdous Nasri's poster (P410) @ECCBinfo now!
She will tell you about the spatiotemporal immunity index tool for infectious diseases ✨
#ECCB2024 #immunity #modelling #spatiotemporal
ALT Ferdous Nasri standing happily in front of her poster.