AI × Biology Papers Corpus
The definitive, machine-readable index of AI × Biology papers accepted at ICLR, ICML and NeurIPS.
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Why this exists
🎯 One canonical corpus
Every AI × Biology paper accepted at ICLR / ICML / NeurIPS, from NeurIPS 2010 to ICLR 2026, in one place. 3,722 records, all with abstract, authors and PDF link.
🏷️ Machine-labelled, human-audited
Two-stage keyword filter with 95.9 % recall against a 315-paper hand-curated truth set. Ten topical tags (protein, molecule, single_cell, …) assigned per paper.
📊 Ready to analyse
Ships as structured JSON + CSV plus 33 foldable markdown files you can browse on GitHub. Reproducible: the entire tree regenerates from one JSON.
🚀 Quick start
git clone https://github.com/biotender/ai-bio-conference-papers.git
cd ai-bio-conference-papers
# Browse in your editor — every paper is a foldable card
open papers/ICLR/2026.md
# Or load the data
python -c "import json; papers = json.load(open('data/papers_master.json')); print(len(papers), 'papers')"
📈 At a glance
Corpus overview — 3,722 papers, 2010 → 2026
Stacked bars by venue, one bar per year. NeurIPS dominates the early record (2010–2017, ICLR/ICML absent from the corpus); ICLR takes over from 2020 onwards. The 2026 bar reaches 1,235 papers even without NeurIPS 2026, which had not yet run at snapshot time. The AlphaFold2 reference line marks the 2021 inflection point.
SVG (vector, editable): figures/corpus_overview.svg
Topic trajectories — 7 tags, 2017 → 2026
Per-year paper counts for the seven densest tags. protein climbs from ~2 papers/year (2018) to 294 in 2026 — a textbook post-AlphaFold2 explosion. single_cell lifts late (25 → 125 across 2020–2026). genomics roughly doubles between 2024 → 2025 (59 → 148). medical_imaging and clinical grow more steadily.
SVG (vector, editable): figures/topic_trajectories.svg
Both figures are regenerated directly from data/papers_master.json; the plotting code lives in the companion biotender-ai-bio-corpus repo.
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