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Contig
Agentic bioinformatics: it runs, self-heals, and verifies
An agentic analyst for sequencing data: it runs the right pipeline on your own compute, self-heals failures like out-of-memory and missing indexes, verifies the output with real QC checks, and returns a signed, reproducible record. CLI + local dashboard.
Hi Product Hunt 👋
I'm a solo builder with a genetics obsession and an engineering background,
and Contig is my attempt at the unglamorous, unsolved part of bioinformatics.
Turning "find differentially expressed genes" into a workflow is the easy,
crowded part — general LLMs and tools like Galaxy already do it. The hard part
is everything after: actually RUNNING that pipeline on real data, on real
compute, watching it break at hour 3, and fixing it. Frontier models score only
~17% on real bioinformatics analysis (BixBench), and ~74% of wet-lab scientists
don't code at all.
So Contig doesn't just generate a workflow. It:
• runs the pipeline on YOUR compute (Docker locally, or AWS Batch in your account),
• self-heals failures on its own — OOM, a missing index it can rebuild, version
mismatches — and shows you the repair chain (risky fixes pause for approval),
• verifies the output with real QC checks and ends in an honest verdict
(PASS / WARN / FAIL / UNVERIFIED — never a bare "done"),
• and writes a signed, reproducible record you can re-run with one command.
Being honest about maturity, because that's the whole point of the product:
it's Apache-2.0 and free to self-host today. The engine (run → self-heal →
verify → reproduce) is exercised end-to-end on nf-core/rnaseq; six more assays
(scRNA-seq, germline + somatic variants, methylation, 16S, metagenomics) are
wired with QC packs and being hardened to the same bar. The dashboard is
localhost-only for now, and it's pre-revenue.
Try it in 30 seconds (no data of your own needed):
pipx install contig
contig run --run-id smoke # runs, self-heals an injected failure, verifies
contig show smoke # verdict + provenance + repair chain
What I'd love from you: break it, and send me your worst failure cases — every
recovered failure becomes a labeled data point that makes the detector better.
Happy to answer anything here all day.
how does the reproducibility work if my compute or reference versions drift between runs, is the signed record still useful when the underlying environment changes?
About Contig on Product Hunt
“Agentic bioinformatics: it runs, self-heals, and verifies”
Contig was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 2 comments, placing #142 on the daily leaderboard. An agentic analyst for sequencing data: it runs the right pipeline on your own compute, self-heals failures like out-of-memory and missing indexes, verifies the output with real QC checks, and returns a signed, reproducible record. CLI + local dashboard.
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