AI swarm发现结直肠癌耐药关键靶点IGF2,全程可解释且验证有效。
Autonomous mechanistic discovery of colorectal cancer vulnerabilities via multi-scale AI swarms
- 用本地LLM群+物理引擎构建多尺度自主发现系统
- 识别出IGF2是5-氟尿嘧啶耐药的严格约束靶点
- 从细胞到动物再到生存率预测,全流程可验证
自动化科学发现受限于大语言模型的语义推理与哺乳动物生物学确定性之间的认知鸿沟。现有框架虽能自动生成假说并进行体外实验分析,但缺乏数学严谨的因果约束,难以实现多尺度临床转化。尽管算法类器官可预测生物状态,却依赖黑箱隐空间,牺牲机制可解释性以换取预测精度。本文提出多尺度自主发现引擎Octopus,融合零泄露本地LLM群与严格算法物理引擎。系统不局限于单一细胞实验,而是基于CCLE的CRISPR依赖数据自动生成治疗假说,利用XGBoost SHAP向量追踪动态因果链,并在体外独立验证其对人源肿瘤移植模型(PDX)和人类总生存率(Marisa)的预测能力。在无监督扫描结直肠癌转录组时,系统自主发现胰岛素样生长因子2(IGF2)为5-氟尿嘧啶耐药的严格边界脆弱性。经Benjamini-Hochberg校正后显著性仍达q=0.0292,Log-Rank检验p=0.0007,且在独立小鼠队列中成功预测肿瘤体积显著缩小(Mann-Whitney p=0.0373)。该框架打通了多智能体推理与数学约束临床生存预测之间的鸿沟,建立可验证、零泄露的全自动生物医学发现范式。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
The acceleration of automated scientific discovery has been fundamentally bottlenecked by the epistemic gap between the semantic reasoning of large language models (LLMs) and the deterministic physics of mammalian biology. While recent multi-agent frameworks have achieved autonomous hypothesis generation and in vitro experimental analysis, they lack the mathematically grounded, causal constraints required for multi-scale clinical translation. Furthermore, while algorithmic clinical digital twins successfully forecast biological states, they rely on black-box latent spaces, sacrificing mechanistic interpretability for predictive accuracy. Here, we introduce the Multi-Scale Autonomous Discovery Engine (Octopus), a neuro-symbolic architecture that unites zero-leakage, local LLM swarms with strict algorithmic physics engines. Rather than stopping at isolated cellular assays, the system autonomously generated therapeutic hypotheses against in vitro CRISPR dependency data (CCLE), traced dynamic causal cascades using mechanistic interpretability (XGBoost SHAP vectors), and orthogonally translated the emergent vulnerabilities in silico to predict in vivo mammalian tumor trajectory (PDX) and human overall survival (Marisa). In a fully unsupervised sweep of colorectal cancer transcriptomes, the pipeline autonomously identified Insulin-like Growth Factor 2 (IGF2) as a strictly bounded vulnerability to 5-Fluorouracil resistance. The discovery maintained significance after rigorous Benjamini-Hochberg false discovery rate correction (q=0.0292, Log-Rank p=0.0007 ) and successfully predicted significant in vivo tumor volume shrinkage in an independent mouse cohort (Mann-Whitney p=0.0373). By bridging the chasm between multi-agent reasoning and mathematically bounded clinical survival, this framework establishes a verifiable, zero-leakage paradigm for automated, end-to-end biomedical discovery.
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