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Chemists
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Featurizes molecules for machine learning with molfeat (100+ featurizers) — ECFP/MACCS/MAP4 fingerprints, RDKit and Mordred physicochemical descriptors, and pretrained embeddings (ChemBERTa, ChemGPT, GIN) exposed as scikit-learn transformers that convert…

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Chemists
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Provides the RDKit cheminformatics toolkit for low-level, fine-grained molecular primitives — SMILES/SDF parsing, descriptors (MW, LogP, TPSA), fingerprints, substructure/SMARTS search, 2D/3D coordinate generation, similarity, and reaction handling. Use when…

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Chemists
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Builds PyTorch-native graph neural networks with TorchDrug for molecules and proteins, exposing custom GNN architectures, task/dataset abstractions, molecular generation, retrosynthesis planning, and knowledge-graph reasoning. Use when developing custom graph…

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Postsecondary Teachers, All Other
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Verifies that every entry in a bibliography ACTUALLY EXISTS by cross-checking it against four keyless public scholarly APIs (Crossref, OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, arXiv) with a polite mailto identifier, resolving DOI/arXiv IDs, fuzzy-matching title and…

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Postsecondary Teachers, All Other
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Runs a 13-agent deep research pipeline for rigorous academic work on any topic across 7 modes (full research, quick brief, paper review, lit-review, fact-check, Socratic guided research dialogue, and systematic review with optional meta-analysis), covering…

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Technical Writers
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Drafts and revises academic papers through a 12-agent pipeline with hardened LaTeX output (apa7 document class, justified text, table column-width formula, centered bilingual abstracts, standardized font stack, PDF compiled from LaTeX), supporting IMRaD,…

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Postsecondary Teachers, All Other
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Orchestrates the full academic research pipeline (research, write, integrity check, review, revise, re-review, re-revise, final integrity check, finalize), coordinating alterlab-deep-research, alterlab-paper-writer, and alterlab-paper-reviewer into a seamless…

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Postsecondary Teachers, All Other
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Designs courses and teaching materials using backward design (Wiggins & McTighe), constructive alignment (Biggs), and Bloom's taxonomy alignment, generating rubrics, formative and summative assessments, syllabi, lesson plans, inclusive-pedagogy guidance, and…

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Postsecondary Teachers, All Other
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Supervises theses and dissertations end to end — structure guidance from proposal through defense, chapter-by-chapter writing support (introduction, literature review, methodology, results, discussion), supervision strategies, committee management, defense…

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Software Developers
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Scales reinforcement learning with PufferLib — high-throughput parallel training (PuffeRL), vectorized environments, and native multi-agent systems achieving 2-10x speedups over standard implementations. Use when scaling RL to millions of steps per second,…

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Software Developers
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Trains single-agent reinforcement learning agents with Stable-Baselines3 — PPO, SAC, DQN, TD3, DDPG, and A2C behind a scikit-learn-like API. Use for standard single-agent RL experiments, quick prototyping, well-documented algorithm implementations on…

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Biological Scientists, All Other
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Access the AlphaFold DB of 200M+ AI-PREDICTED protein structures — retrieve models by UniProt accession, download PDB/mmCIF files, and analyze prediction confidence metrics (pLDDT, PAE). Use when a UniProt ID needs a computationally predicted 3D structure or…

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Biological Scientists, All Other
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Query BindingDB for measured protein-ligand binding affinities (Ki, Kd, IC50, EC50) via its keyless REST API or the full TSV download, searching by target (UniProt ID), compound (SMILES), or pathogen. Use when looking up experimental binding constants,…

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Biological Scientists, All Other
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Query ChEMBL via the chembl_webresource_client Python client for curated bioactive molecules and drug-like compound libraries at scale — search compounds by structure or physicochemical properties, retrieve bioactivity measurements (IC50, Ki, EC50), and find…

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Biological Scientists, All Other
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Provide direct REST API access to KEGG (academic use only) for pathway analysis, gene-to-pathway and compound-to-pathway mapping, metabolic reactions, KEGG Orthology (KO), drug-drug interactions, and ID conversion. Use when querying KEGG pathways, mapping…

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Biological Scientists, All Other
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Access the RCSB Protein Data Bank (PDB) for EXPERIMENTALLY determined 3D structures (X-ray, cryo-EM, NMR) of proteins and nucleic acids — searching by text, sequence, or structure similarity and downloading coordinates in PDB/mmCIF format with metadata. Use…

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Biological Scientists, All Other
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Query the STRING API for protein-protein interactions (59M proteins, 20B interactions across 5000+ species), building interaction networks, discovering functional partners, and running GO/KEGG/Pfam enrichment on protein lists. Use when constructing a…

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Biological Scientists, All Other
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Provide direct REST API access to UniProt (Swiss-Prot/TrEMBL) for protein sequence searches, FASTA retrieval, functional annotations (GO terms, domains), and cross-database ID mapping. Use when looking up a protein entry, fetching a protein FASTA sequence, or…

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Software Developers
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Builds, simulates, and runs quantum circuits with Cirq, Google Quantum AI's framework for NISQ hardware, noise-aware low-level circuit design, and noise characterization. Use when targeting Google Quantum AI processors (Sycamore/Weber), designing noise-aware…

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Software Developers
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Covers geospatial science across remote sensing, GIS, spatial analysis, and machine learning for earth observation — satellite imagery processing (Sentinel, Landsat, MODIS, SAR, hyperspectral), raster and DEM operations, spectral indices (NDVI/EVI/NDWI),…

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Biological Scientists, All Other
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Runs automated LLM-driven hypothesis generation and testing on tabular datasets with HypoGeniC, combining literature insights with data-driven testing. Use when systematically exploring hypotheses about patterns in empirical data (for example deception…

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Software Developers
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Trains and differentiates quantum circuits with PennyLane, a hardware-agnostic quantum machine-learning framework with automatic differentiation and PyTorch/JAX/TensorFlow integration. Use when training quantum circuits via gradients (parameter-shift,…

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Software Developers
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Builds, transpiles, and runs quantum circuits with Qiskit, IBM's quantum computing framework, including Qiskit Runtime primitives (Sampler/Estimator), circuit transpilation, and error mitigation on IBM Quantum hardware. Use when targeting IBM Quantum…

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Biological Technicians
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Writes liquid-handling protocols for Opentrons OT-2 and Flex robots using the official Opentrons Protocol API v2, with full access to v2 features for production-grade, officially compatible protocols. Use when authoring or running protocols specifically for…

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Postsecondary Teachers, All Other
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Mixed methods research design and integration strategies for combining qualitative and quantitative approaches. Use when planning convergent, explanatory sequential, exploratory sequential, embedded, transformative, or multiphase designs; when integrating…

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Postsecondary Teachers, All Other
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Guidance for open science practices — preregistration (OSF Registries, AsPredicted, PROSPERO, ClinicalTrials.gov), open data and FAIR principles, repository choice (Zenodo, Dryad, Figshare), open access routes (Green/Gold/Diamond), Creative Commons licensing,…

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Market Research Analysts & Marketing Specialists
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Search the web, run deep research, and extract content from known URLs via the Parallel Web Systems Chat API (OpenAI-compatible) and Extract API, returning synthesized summaries with inline citations. Use when running general web searches,…

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Postsecondary Teachers, All Other
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Comprehensive qualitative research methods assistant supporting thematic analysis (Braun & Clarke), grounded theory (Strauss & Corbin; Charmaz), interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA), content analysis, narrative inquiry, ethnography, case study…

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Postsecondary Teachers, All Other
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International research ethics and compliance assistant supporting IRB/ethics board applications, informed consent drafting, data management plans, Belmont Report principles, Declaration of Helsinki (2024), GDPR compliance for research, HIPAA considerations,…

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Postsecondary Teachers, All Other
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Look up current research and scholarly papers by auto-routing each query to the best backend — the Parallel Web Systems Chat API (general research) or Perplexity sonar-pro-search (academic paper searches) — and save every result with citations to sources/.…

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Postsecondary Teachers, All Other
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Evaluate scientific claims and evidence quality using evidence grading frameworks (GRADE, Cochrane Risk of Bias), assessing experimental design validity and identifying biases, confounders, statistical pitfalls, and logical fallacies. Use when judging…

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Postsecondary Teachers, All Other
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Comprehensive survey and instrument design assistant supporting questionnaire construction, Likert scale design, question types (open/closed/matrix), response bias mitigation, sampling strategies (probability/non-probability), pilot testing, instrument…

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Postsecondary Teachers, All Other
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Builds plots with the matplotlib Python library (pyplot and the object-oriented Figure/Axes API) for full low-level customization, exporting to PNG/PDF/SVG. Use when fine-grained control over individual plot elements is needed — custom…

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Postsecondary Teachers, All Other
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Orchestrates matplotlib, seaborn, and plotly with opinionated publication styles to produce journal-ready figures. Use when preparing journal-submission figures that need multi-panel layouts with bold panel labels, statistical significance annotations, error…

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Postsecondary Teachers, All Other
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Prepares academic career documents and professional-development materials for faculty and researchers. Use when drafting academic CVs, research statements, teaching philosophies, diversity statements, faculty-position cover letters, tenure dossiers, promotion…

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Editors
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Simulates a full multi-reviewer journal review PANEL — 5 personas (Editor-in-Chief + 3 peer reviewers + a Devil's Advocate) debate a manuscript and produce a consensus Editorial Decision (accept/minor/major/reject) plus a prioritized Revision Roadmap. Modes:…

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Software Developers
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Query ClinicalTrials.gov via its API v2 to search trials by condition, drug, location, recruitment status, or phase and retrieve trial details by NCT ID. Use when finding interventional or observational studies, checking trial status and eligibility for…

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Software Developers
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Run Open Notebook, a self-hosted open-source alternative to Google NotebookLM with a full REST API, for AI-powered research and document analysis. Use when organizing research materials into notebooks, ingesting diverse content sources (PDFs, videos, audio,…

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Software Developers
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Integrates the Benchling R&D platform via its REST API and SDK — access the registry (DNA, proteins), inventory, ELN entries and workflows, build Benchling Apps, and query the Benchling Data Warehouse. Use when automating Benchling lab data management,…

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Software Developers
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Develops and runs genomics pipelines on the DNAnexus cloud platform using the dxpy Python SDK and dx CLI — build apps/applets, write dxapp.json, upload/download data, and execute jobs/workflows over FASTQ/BAM/VCF files. Use when building or running a DNAnexus…

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