DeCure's autonomous Rare AI scientist is researching a drug-repurposing hypothesis for GRACILE syndrome — screening already-approved drugs against its 1-gene Open Targets disease module to publish open-access research. Research is fast; the path to publication is funded in milestone stages.
Disease moduleGRACILE syndrome maps to a 1-gene Open Targets module — the target space DeCure's AI scientist screens approved drugs against.
DeCure.ai methodSignature reversal (LINCS) plus network proximity (STRING) rank already-approved drugs likely to perturb this module — the same engine that produces DeCure.ai's repurposing hypotheses.
Repurposing thesisScreening approved medicines against this disease module, then publishing the evidence for the strongest candidate. Known pharmacology and human exposure data make the first question sharper — they do not establish safety or efficacy in a new indication.
Research record
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ResearchComing soon
Candidate research + dossier — target rationale, drug-repurposing thesis and evidence pack.proof: Published dossier + on-chain hash
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ValidationComing soon
In-vitro biological validation at a contract research org (CRO).proof: CRO contract + in-vitro report
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Peer review & paperComing soon
Peer-reviewed paper published open-access (preprint + journal).proof: DOI + open-access link + on-chain hash
Current lead
No approved-drug candidate for gracile syndrome is corroborated in the literature DeepSearch retrieved. Some conditions are managed with non-pharmacological care — a device, surgery or physical therapy — rather than a medicine; that may be the case here, or the literature we found may simply be too sparse yet to support a drug-repurposing angle.
Evidence
Retrieved by DeepSearch across 234,678,978 indexed works and resolved on OpenAlex — ranked by citations, including the results that did not work.
Apulum: Arheologie. Istorie. Etnografie · 1998 · 0 citations
Un capat de buzdugan medieval din colectia muzeului din Sebes
AbstractThe clinical presentation of a neonate with GRACILE-like syndrome, complex III deficiency and BCS1L mutations is discussed. This case is compared and contrasted with the original Finnish reports of GRACILE syndrome and other cases with a similar phenotype. This case confirms the pathogenicity of the BCS1L gene mutation c.166C>T, and provides support for the pathogenicity of a sequence variation, c.-588T>A, previously reported.
Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2010 · 0 citations
GRACILE syndrome
AbstractGRACILE syndrome (OMIM #603358) is a rare lethal disorder of infants. The acronym GRACILE represents growth retardation, aminoaciduria, cholestasis, iron loading, and early death. This autosomal recessive disorder is caused by mutations of the BCS1 gene on chromosome 2q33. The human BCS1 gene encodes a homolog of S. cerevisiae bcs1 protein involved in the assembly of complex III (CIII) of the mitochondrial respiratory chain. GRACILE syndrome was first reported from Finland where its estimated population frequency is 1 per 47,000 to 70,000 infants. GRACILE syndrome has been identified in other geographic regions, but population prevalence estimates are not available for most other countries. Other mutations of BCS1 result in clinical and laboratory phenotypes that differ from those of GRACILE syndrome.
Disease module: DeepOracle (Open Targets). Structures: RDKit from PubChem SMILES. Literature: retrieved by DeepSearch across 234,678,978 indexed works (targeted per-candidate search), resolved on OpenAlex.
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