bioq: a unified, agent-native command-line interface to a fleet of AI drug-discovery methods
- 1Noah AI
Abstract
Artificial intelligence methods now span the drug-discovery pipeline --structure prediction, de novo design, docking, affinity estimation, and ADMET -- yet each tool ships with its own, often incompatible, GPU software stack, so chaining several into a workflow requires reproducing conflicting software environments and access to datacenter-class hardware that most labs do not have. bioq is a dependency-light command-line client backed by bioq-services (accontrol-plane gateway plus a growing fleet of 38+ containerized drug-discovery tools spanning 7 discovery stages and 6 molecular modalities). The bioq CLI is self-describing and consistent across the fleet of computational tools, giving researchers and coding agents uniform access to any tool from a laptop, with no local model code, CUDA setup, or cloud configuration, running on serverless GPUs billed per job. The interface-gateway-services architecture makes bioq an execution substrate for automated, agent-driven discovery. bioq and bioq-services are open source under the MIT License and available at https://github.com/wolfsonliu/bioq and https://github.com/wolfsonliu/bioq-services. bioq runs on Python > 3.10 with httpx as its only runtime dependency; services run as Linux containers and are self-hostable via the provided local deployment scripts (alongside scripts for Alibaba Cloud Function Compute). Install, quickstart, test data, and self-hosting instructions are in the repository. The project is actively maintained and will continue to receive updates to both features and services.
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BibTeX
@misc{liu2026bioq,
title = {{bioq: a unified, agent-native command-line interface to a fleet of AI drug-discovery methods}},
author = {Z. Liu and Y. Wang},
howpublished = {bioRxiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.64898/2026.09.03.749148},
url = {https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.03.749148v1},
note = {CC BY},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - bioq: a unified, agent-native command-line interface to a fleet of AI drug-discovery methods
AU - Z. Liu
AU - Y. Wang
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/03
PB - bioRxiv
DO - 10.64898/2026.09.03.749148
UR - https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.03.749148v1
AB - Artificial intelligence methods now span the drug-discovery pipeline --structure prediction, de novo design, docking, affinity estimation, and ADMET -- yet each tool ships with its own, often incompatible, GPU software stack, so chaining several into a workflow requires reproducing conflicting software environments and access to datacenter-class hardware that most labs do not have. bioq is a dependency-light command-line client backed by bioq-services (accontrol-plane gateway plus a growing fleet of 38+ containerized drug-discovery tools spanning 7 discovery stages and 6 molecular modalities). The bioq CLI is self-describing and consistent across the fleet of computational tools, giving researchers and coding agents uniform access to any tool from a laptop, with no local model code, CUDA setup, or cloud configuration, running on serverless GPUs billed per job. The interface-gateway-services architecture makes bioq an execution substrate for automated, agent-driven discovery. bioq and bioq-services are open source under the MIT License and available at https://github.com/wolfsonliu/bioq and https://github.com/wolfsonliu/bioq-services. bioq runs on Python > 3.10 with httpx as its only runtime dependency; services run as Linux containers and are self-hostable via the provided local deployment scripts (alongside scripts for Alibaba Cloud Function Compute). Install, quickstart, test data, and self-hosting instructions are in the repository. The project is actively maintained and will continue to receive updates to both features and services.
ER -