Current Work
Public initiatives and systems under Second Order Labs.
Protean Labs
A provenance-aware scientific operating system for peptide discovery. Protean Labs combines evidence retrieval, bounded hypothesis formation, deterministic validation, candidate generation, public provenance, and review-gated publication.
What It Does
- →Evidence retrieval from scientific literature and databases
- →Bounded hypothesis formation constrained by evidence
- →Peptide candidate generation within validated constraints
- →Deterministic validators enforcing scientific rules
- →Public provenance trails for computational outputs
- →Review gates before publication or deployment
Boundaries
Computational rankings are research-prioritization signals, not biological proof.
The system produces candidates for research, not therapeutic claims.
Wet-lab validation is required for biological activity claims.
Public proof surfaces expose methodology, not clinical readiness.
Research Directions
Internal research areas informing future work. Not product announcements.
Provenance Systems
Active researchInfrastructure for making computation inspectable, auditable, and replayable.
Bounded Agentic Operations
Active researchFrameworks for giving systems authority only where they have demonstrated reliability.
Scientific Memory
Under explorationSystems that remember what worked, what failed, and why across research iterations.
Review Gate Architecture
Under explorationPatterns for human review gates in autonomous systems.
Research directions are internal explorations. They are not product announcements, customer commitments, or timeline promises.
Interested in collaborating?
For research partnerships, infrastructure conversations, or strategic inquiries.