Research

Research Focus & Innovation

Interdisciplinary research bridging molecular biology, artificial intelligence, and regulatory science to advance biosafety and biosecurity globally.

Research Areas

Biosafety & Biosecurity Regulation

Developing evidence-based regulatory frameworks for GMO oversight, synthetic biology safety, and cross-border biosafety compliance. Research focuses on operationalising AI-enabled inspection tools and predictive biosurveillance analytics for national regulatory agencies.

GMO SurveillanceSynthetic BiologyRegulatory ScienceBiosafety Levels

AI × Biosecurity Intersection

Pioneering research at the frontier of artificial intelligence and biosecurity. This includes developing machine learning models for GMO perception analysis, AI-assisted risk prediction, and ethical governance frameworks for AI deployment in biological research environments.

Machine LearningRisk PredictionAI GovernanceBiosurveillance

Ontology Development & Predictive Science

Construction of domain-specific ontologies for biosafety and life sciences, enabling automated decision support and knowledge representation. Research integrates ontology-driven approaches with predictive modelling for regulatory intelligence.

Ontology EngineeringKnowledge RepresentationPredictive ModellingDecision Support

Molecular Diagnostics & Bioinformatics

Research in PCR-based molecular diagnostics, DNA barcoding, and bioinformatics pipelines for pathogen identification and GMO characterisation. Includes sequencing collaborations and computational biology workflows for regulatory applications.

PCR DiagnosticsDNA BarcodingBioinformaticsPathogen ID

Environmental Biosafety & Food Safety

Investigation of biosafety risks in food systems and environmental contexts, including fungal contamination of imported commodities, GMO market surveillance, and development of structured datasets for national biosafety strategies.

Food SafetyFungal ContaminationMarket SurveillanceEnvironmental Risk

Data Informatics & Scientific Automation

Development of automated scientific workflows, laboratory information management systems, and data annotation pipelines. Research focuses on reducing manual intervention in regulatory processes through intelligent automation and AI-enabled tools.

Lab AutomationLIMSData PipelinesScientific Workflows

Fine-Tuning Scientific Models via LoRA & PEFT

Research into parameter-efficient fine-tuning of biological foundation models — including ESM-2, DNABERT-2, Geneformer, and BioMedLM — using Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) and related PEFT techniques. Applications span biosecurity threat detection, GMO characterisation, pathogen surveillance, antimicrobial resistance prediction, and regulatory document intelligence. This work accelerates domain-specific AI deployment while maintaining biosecurity guardrails.

LoRAPEFTFoundation ModelsBiosecurity AIParameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning

Custom AI Tools (GPTs)

AI-powered tools developed to support biosafety, laboratory automation, and regulatory workflows.

ResearchGPT

AI Research Assistant. Search 200M academic papers, get science-based answers, and draft content with accurate citations.

Research

RepurposeAI

Specializing in computational drug repurposing — accelerating the discovery of new therapeutic uses for existing compounds using AI-driven analysis.

Drug Discovery

Organic Chemistry GPT

Organic chemistry specialist with expertise in reaction mechanisms, synthesis design, stereochemistry, spectroscopy, and chemical safety. Delivers decision-grade, source-grounded outputs aligned to academic and industrial chemistry standards.

Chemistry

Biosafety Levels (BSL) GPT

Expert biosafety consultant specializing in laboratory safety, risk assessment, and containment protocols for BSL-1 through BSL-4 facilities. Provides evidence-based guidance aligned with CDC/WHO/NIH standards.

Biosafety

Bio-Inspired Industrial Design GPT

Fuses biophilia, biomimicry, and biodesign into pragmatic industrial design workflows. Optimized for education (FYP), studios, and R&D teams seeking nature-inspired engineering solutions.

Biodesign

Plasmid Construct GPT

A master prompt optimizer that structures user requests using the Lyra 4-D framework, then outputs a non-operational plasmid construct blueprint for planning and educational purposes.

Molecular Biology

Research Gap Analysis GPT

Identify, validate, and articulate high-impact research gaps — evidence, knowledge, practical, methodological, empirical, theoretical, and population. Produces a structured gap package with research questions, methods, impact, and citations.

Research

Epidemiological Modelling GPT

A domain-specific reasoning engine trained on mathematical models of infectious disease dynamics, real-world outbreak data, WHO/CDC guidelines, Bayesian inference, spatial simulations, and health policy frameworks.

Epidemiology

Biomimicry GPT

Nature's Innovation Partner for Bio-Inspired Solutions. An expert in reverse engineering technological or systemic challenges using nature's blueprints — deconstructs problems, finds biological analogs, and generates bio-inspired innovations.

Biodesign

Bayesian Optimization GPT

Designing and implementing Bayesian Optimization to accelerate discovery and optimization across scientific domains including material science, drug discovery, physics, and biology.

Data Science

Synthetic DNA

Retrieving and analyzing data from scientific databases like NCBI and GenBank, summarizing literature from peer-reviewed journals, and providing tools for synthetic DNA workflows.

Molecular Biology

AlphaFold

Fetches 3D structure data from the AlphaFold Database (using UniProt IDs) and summarizes protein information via an LLM.

Molecular Biology

Carbon Accounting GPT

Guides users through the comprehensive process of calculating, analyzing, and managing their carbon footprint based on structured principles of carbon accounting.

Data Science

Research Gap Identifier GPT

Helps users find research gaps by leveraging proven techniques, analyzing the latest publications, and using advanced tools to discover underexplored areas in their field, guiding them toward impactful research and top journal publications.

Research

Cosmetic Formulation & Development GPT

Cosmetic formulation expertise focusing on developing cost-effective, harmless, and 100% green formulations using bio-ingredients. Also addresses equipment specification, quality control (QC) guidelines, and reverse engineering.

Biodesign

Polymerase GPT

Helps determine DNA amplification base pairs in electrophoresis, suggests ideal PCR conditions, and designs primers. Retrieves references supporting PCR conditions, primer design methods, and electrophoresis analysis.

Molecular Biology

Gene-Phenotype Mapping GTP

A specialized model for genetic-phenotype knowledge representation and genomics relation analysis.

Molecular Biology

Periodic Table Chemistry GPT

An innovative tool that provides in-depth knowledge of chemical elements, their properties, and trends. Ideal for students, researchers, and educators to interactively explore the fundamental concepts of the periodic table, from element classification to periodic trends.

Chemistry

Statistical Genomics

Genome-wide Association Studies (GWAS) and Quantitative Trait Loci (QTL) analysis. An interactive tool for inputting genomic data, specifying traits of interest, and performing statistical analysis to identify associations between genetic markers and traits.

Molecular Biology

Web Applications

Virtual Mentor

Transform your life ambitions into reality with a personalized AI mentor that guides you through a structured 90-day journey of daily challenges, projects, and breakthroughs.

AutonomousAI

Orchestrate autonomous AI agent teams, run web research pipelines, fine-tune models with recursive self-improvement, and integrate Claude Code, all from one unified dashboard.

AI DataDiagnostics

Upload, diagnose, transform, and generate synthetic data for your AI models, all in one elegant platform designed for data scientists and ML engineers.

GPTNexus

The premier hub for discovering custom GPTs, generating OAuth schemas, connecting external APIs, and linking Hugging Face models — all formatted for seamless OpenAI integration.

Science Hub

Explore Science Through Interactive Simulations Discover Physics, Chemistry, and Biology through hands-on interactive simulations — enhanced with AI explanations, guided walkthroughs, and real-time learning support.

InSilico Models

Precision digital animal models for preclinical research and drug discovery. Replace live animal testing with AI-powered, genetically-engineered in silico models, enhanced by machine learning and your own experimental data.

Biosecurity Intelligence Platform

powerful tools for modern biosecurity compliance — real-time DNA sequence hazard screening and AI-powered dual-use research risk analysis.

Epidemic Calculator Model — Excel VBA Dashboard

An offline Epidemic Calculator built entirely in Excel VBA, enabling researchers, health professionals, and policymakers to simulate epidemic dynamics without reliable internet access. Developed to support critical public health decisions in resource-limited settings.

Research Tools & Technologies

PythonRBLASTBioconductorMEGAGeneiousTensorFlowscikit-learnSPSSExcel Advanced AnalyticsHugging Face PEFTLoRA / QLoRAESM-2DNABERT-2GeneformerBiosafety Companion GPTDNA Barcode Assistant GPTPlasmid Construct GPTSSRNZotero