For those of you who are trying to digest the recently released ESMO 2025 abstracts, abstract.plus now runs a web tool that helps you filter/annotate abstracts with a few clicks.

Took only 2 days of intermittent collaboration with
@anthropicai.bsky.social 's Opus/Sonnet 4 to start with the idea and come up with a functional MCP solution.

I even let Claude Code handle the commits and most of the git plumbing -- and loved that @github.com captures this

Inspired by fastapi-mcp package, I (vibe-) coded {plumber2mcp}, a simple package to help add MCP support to a {plumber} API:

#rstats
pr('plumber.R') %>%
pr_mcp(transport='stdio') %>%
pr_run(port = 8000)

Supports HTTP/STDIO, tool/resource definitions, and schemas

It is so hard to browse, narrow, and annotate big conference (e.g. #ASCO25) abstracts using their original web sites. For the last 1.5 years, I have been experimenting with an AI-assisted way to consume these materials. I finally was able to combine my scripts into a single web application.

Would have been convenient to have this companion GPT when I was doing my PhD 😭

Paper figure -> gene list -> comp'al friendly format with annotations

For those of you who want to play with an HGNC-savvy GPT for mundane gene ID mapping/look-up tasks, I present you Hugo the GPT: chat.openai.com/g/g-E7GrLSwn...