Junior B. f74a58aa43 Harden cache_msa: pick valid FASTA a3m + strip null bytes
Pilot validated the MSA-reuse architecture (1 server query, cached &
reused -- server hammering fixed) but Boltz's INPUT a3m parser crashed on
the cached file: KeyError '\x00'. Boltz writes several .a3m files (some
binary); we were grabbing a bad one.

Fix: select the largest a3m that looks like FASTA (starts with '>'), and
strip null bytes before caching. Raise with the candidate list if none
qualifies (so we can see what's there).

Pilot status: MSA caching + reuse confirmed working; this fixes the
a3m-format crash. Re-validate with a 2-drug pilot before the full run.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-25 00:44:32 +02:00

Reverso MVP — Sickle Cell Repurposing Pipeline

A minimum viable drug repurposing pipeline for sickle cell disease: build a disease signature from public transcriptomic data, build drug profiles for ~300 small molecules, and rank them by CMap-style connectivity scoring. Validated by a recovery test — do the two known sickle cell drugs (hydroxyurea, L-glutamine) rank near the top?

See PLAN.md for the full specification, locked decisions, and week-by-week build plan.

Quickstart

# Requires Python >=3.11,<3.13 (see note below)
pip install -e .            # or: pip install -e ".[dev]" for test/lint tooling
pytest                      # run unit tests

Python version note: use Python 3.113.13 (python3.13 -m venv .venv). Python 3.14 is not yet supported by all pipeline dependencies (pydeseq2, cmapPy).

Project layout

data/         raw (downloaded, never edited) / processed / results — gitignored
notebooks/    01..05, run end-to-end in order
src/          identifiers, disease, drugs, scoring, provenance
tests/        scoring unit tests
docs/         recovery_test_report.md, data_sources.md, known_limitations.md

The deliverable

When complete, the artifact to share is three files:

  1. docs/recovery_test_report.md — the 2-page write-up
  2. data/results/ranked_candidates_v1.csv — the ranked drug list
  3. The signature + drug profile files with provenance

Pipeline

Notebook Stage Output
01_setup_identifiers.ipynb Pin disease/gene IDs data/processed/identifiers.json
02_disease_signature.ipynb GEO + differential expression sickle_cell_signature_v1.json
03_drug_profiles.ipynb ChEMBL + LINCS drug_profiles_v1.parquet
04_connectivity_scoring.ipynb CMap scoring ranked_candidates_v1.csv
05_recovery_test.ipynb Validation docs/recovery_test_report.md

Every persisted artifact carries a confidence tier (A/B/C) and provenance. See PLAN.md §3.

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Drug Repurposing Tool
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