01 · CAPABILITIES
Curate before concluding.
Sec separates acquisition, normalization, validation, interpretation, and publication. This sequence keeps facts, inferences, hypotheses, and recommendations in distinct layers.
CAPABILITY 01Scientific curation
Receives primary and secondary sources, identifies their function, and prepares provenance-aware records.
- DOI, PMID, taxonomy, and persistent identifiers
- source scope, method, date, and version
- evidence grade and interpretive limits
CAPABILITY 02Knowledge discovery
Integrates fragmented data to reveal useful relations without turning association into causality.
- question-led acquisition and cleaning
- feature construction and analytical matrices
- hypotheses separated from observed results
CAPABILITY 03Evolutionary bioinformatics
Connects systematics, phylogeny, homology, orthology, comparative genomics, and metabolite diversification.
- relations among taxa and characters
- uncertainty, support, and method choice
- translation of analysis into scientific interfaces
CAPABILITY 04Knowledge governance
Preserves data lineage and makes the path from source to publication auditable.
- entity, evidence, relation, and version
- controlled vocabulary and canonical names
- explicit record of what cannot be concluded
CAPABILITY 05Scientific products
Turns curated knowledge into observatories, editorial pages, panels, graphs, and SGBD- or API-ready packages.
- editorial hierarchy and accessibility
- data that remains readable without JavaScript
- separation of content, visualization, and interaction
CAPABILITY 06Critical review
Challenges extrapolations, confronts sources, and states when a conclusion depends on inference.
- comparison across sources and methods
- gap and conflict detection
- recommendations proportional to evidence
CAPABILITY 07Source routing
Selects authoritative sources and records why each source is relevant to the question.
- source priority and access route
- scope, rights, and update status
- retrieval decisions with provenance
CAPABILITY 08Semantic normalization
Reconciles names, identifiers, units, and controlled vocabularies across heterogeneous records.
- canonical names and synonyms
- identifier mapping
- unit and field consistency
CAPABILITY 09Evidence grading
Distinguishes experimental evidence, review, inference, hypothesis, and recommendation.
- claim-to-source mapping
- methodological strength
- confidence and limitation labels
CAPABILITY 10Taxonomic resolution
Resolves accepted names, synonyms, taxon scope, and classification before biological comparison.
- taxon identity and authority
- lineage-aware comparisons
- classification versioning
CAPABILITY 11Phylogenetic analysis
Frames alignments, tree inference, support values, and uncertainty for evolutionary questions.
- character and sequence evidence
- method selection
- interpretation within scope
CAPABILITY 12Comparative genomics
Compares genes, proteins, orthologs, and genomic regions while preserving version context.
- homology and orthology
- genome and sequence relations
- reproducible comparison inputs
CAPABILITY 13Literature synthesis
Builds traceable summaries across papers without flattening differences in methods or populations.
- study design comparison
- claim clustering
- citation-aware synthesis
CAPABILITY 14Hypothesis management
Records hypotheses, assumptions, predictions, and tests as distinct scientific objects.
- assumption register
- prediction and counterexample
- hypothesis status
CAPABILITY 15Data modeling
Translates curated entities and relations into schemas, matrices, knowledge graphs, and API-ready records.
- entity and relation design
- field-level provenance
- structured publication packages
CAPABILITY 16Agent evaluation
Tests outputs for grounding, completeness, consistency, reproducibility, and policy compliance.
- question-to-answer test cases
- failure and drift detection
- human review checkpoints
CAPABILITY 17Security and privacy
Prevents secrets and private context from entering public products by default.
- backend-only credentials
- explicit context boundaries
- least-privilege distribution
CAPABILITY 18Observability and audit
Records runs, inputs, versions, decisions, and publication state for accountable operation.
- execution lineage
- contract and policy checks
- reviewable audit trail
CAPABILITY 19Editorial translation
Turns governed evidence into clear scientific communication for researchers, institutions, and decision-makers.
- audience-aware language
- visual and semantic hierarchy
- claim-preserving summaries
CAPABILITY 20Workflow design
Maps repeatable sequences from question to source, analysis, review, and delivery.
- task decomposition
- handoff contracts
- reusable operating patterns