ecoPrimals for Principal Investigators — What This Actually Replaces in Your Lab

What ecoPrimals replaces in a lab, what it costs, and what it produces

From: ecoPrimal — human + synthetic intelligence
Organization: ecoPrimals Date: March 17, 2026 Repositories: github.com/ecoPrimals — all AGPL-3.0-or-later


The Short Version

Your lab probably runs some combination of Python/R bioinformatics, commercial pharmacometric software, and ad hoc data management. ecoPrimals is a pure Rust stack that replaces most of that with faster, reproducible, GPU-accelerated alternatives — and adds things no commercial tool does (cryptographic provenance, physics-based drug scoring, vendor-agnostic GPU compute).

Every claim below has a cargo run --bin validate_* binary that proves it. You can clone the repo and verify on your own hardware.


Find Your Domain

Physics & Materials — The guideStone deployment artifact validates published lattice QCD, plasma physics, molecular dynamics, and spectral theory results on commodity hardware. A single binary, no CUDA, no vendor SDK. Consumer GPUs do real f64 science via Vulkan. See the guideStone section and Papers 01, 06, 07, 10, 14, 23, 25.

Pharmacology & Immunology — The baseCamp paper program has reproduced dose-response curves, pharmacokinetics, tissue-geometry modeling, and drug repurposing scoring from published veterinary and human data. Anderson localization applied to cytokine signaling is original work. See Papers 12, 13, 22.

Microbiology & Genomics — Sovereign 16S pipelines, metagenomics, phylogenetics, PFAS detection, and quorum sensing models — all in pure Rust, all reproducing published results. See Papers 02, 03, 04, 05, 09, 16.

Game Science & Creative Computing — Rigorous HCI models, game design as science, distributed computation, and esotericWebb as a proof that sovereign infrastructure produces real creative software. See Papers 17, 18, 19, 24.


What You Actually Save

ToolWhat You PayecoPrimals ReplacementStatus
NONMEM~$2,000/yrhealthSpring FOCE estimationValidated on synthetic (Exp075)
Monolix~$1,500/yrhealthSpring SAEM estimationValidated on synthetic (Exp075)
WinNonlin (Phoenix)~$3,000/yrhealthSpring NCA (λz, AUC∞, MRT, CL, Vss)Full parity (Exp075)
CRO population PK$50K–200K/programGPU Monte Carlo (100K patients, RTX 4070)Validated (Exp005)
Galaxy server (local)$50K+ setupwetSpring 16S pipeline (sovereign Rust)Full parity, 306 binaries
QIIME2 + condaFree + sysadmin timewetSpring (no Python, no conda, no Docker)Full parity
MassHunter/Chromeleon~$10K+/yrwetSpring Track 2 (mzML/EIC/peaks/PFAS)Full parity on analysis (no instrument control)

Minimum annual savings: $6,500 in licenses alone. CRO avoidance: $50K+ per program.


What You Actually Get That’s Better

Speed

OperationPython/RecoPrimals (CPU)ecoPrimals (GPU)
Hill dose-response (6 cytokines)~3.6 ms~0.04 ms (84×)~0.02 ms (207 M/s)
SCFA kinetics~1.2 ms~0.007 ms (160×)GPU-ready
Beat classification (1000 beats)~30 ms~0.2 ms (149×)GPU-ready
Shannon/Simpson/Pielou diversity~0.5 ms~0.01 msGPU kernel validated
Spectral cosine matchingbaseline1,077× speedup
Population PK (10K patients)minutessecondsseconds (100K on GPU)

Reproducibility

  • Every validation binary has hardcoded expected values with explicit tolerances
  • #![forbid(unsafe_code)] — zero undefined behavior, guaranteed by the compiler
  • cargo clippy with pedantic + nursery lints: zero warnings across every spring
  • Deterministic: same input → same output, always. No Jupyter state, no Python version drift
  • One build command: cargo build --release. No conda, no pip, no Docker, no sysadmin

What No Commercial Tool Offers

CapabilityWhat It Does
Anderson localization for community structureMaps microbial diversity onto condensed matter physics; predicts cytokine/QS signal propagation vs confinement in tissue or soil
Geometry-aware drug repurposingAdds spatial tissue penetration to Fajgenbaum MATRIX pathway scoring — a drug must reach its target through real tissue geometry
Cryptographically signed resultsEvery diversity index, IC50, drug score gets an Ed25519 signature. Non-repudiable.
Sample chain-of-custodyCryptographic DAG from sample collection to publication. Maps to ISO 17025/15189 traceability. Detects 6 fraud types automatically
Vendor-agnostic GPUWebGPU (WGSL) runs on NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, Apple. No CUDA lock-in
NPU edge deploymentBrainChip AKD1000 at 18.8K Hz inference, coin-cell power. Pure Rust driver

How It Works With Your Existing Infrastructure

If You Have Sequencing (Genomics Core / RTSF)

Your sequencer → FASTQ files
    → wetSpring 16S pipeline (FASTQ→QC→merge→derep→DADA2→chimera→taxonomy→diversity→UniFrac)
    → Anderson localization analysis (novel community structure physics)
    → Provenance chain (every step signed, auditable, ISO-mappable)

wetSpring replaces the Galaxy/QIIME2/mothur/R pipeline with a single cargo run. All 306 validation binaries pass. 63 published papers reproduced.

If You Have an HTS Core (like ADDRC)

Compound library → plate reader → IC50 data
    → healthSpring GPU Hill sweep (207 M/s on RTX 4070)
    → MATRIX pathway scoring (Fajgenbaum 2019 reproduced)
    → Anderson geometry scoring (tissue penetration physics)
    → Ranked candidates → back to wet lab validation

The GPU shader can score 8,000 compounds × 6 cytokine pathways in seconds. Traditional screening informatics (ActivityBase, GREENScreen) scores compounds but doesn’t consider tissue geometry — drugs that can’t reach their target score well in silico but fail in vivo.

If You Have ICER Access

ICER A100 allocation → barraCuda WGSL shaders (vendor-agnostic)
    → Anderson eigensolve at L=200 (production scale)
    → Population PK at 10M patients
    → MATRIX scoring at 4K × 18K scale (72M evaluations)

WGSL shaders compiled by wgpu run on any Vulkan-capable GPU. No CUDA required. No NVIDIA lock-in. The same binary that runs on your lab’s RTX 3060 runs on ICER’s A100s.

If You Run Clinical Trials

Patient data → healthSpring PK/PD pipeline
    → NONMEM-equivalent FOCE estimation (sovereign, no Fortran)
    → NCA (λz, AUC∞, MRT, CL, Vss — WinNonlin replacement)
    → NLME diagnostics (CWRES, VPC, GOF)
    → petalTongue visualization → clinical dashboard
    → BearDog signed results → audit trail

Every intermediate result is signed. The provenance chain maps to 21 CFR Part 11 requirements. No Fortran compiler. No proprietary binary.


What We Honestly Can’t Do Yet

GapWhyTimeline
Real clinical dataFOCE/SAEM validated on synthetic onlyMIMIC-IV access closes this gap
FDA submission formattingInfrastructure exists, no CTD/eCTD layerFormatting, not algorithms
GUI workflow builderCLI + validation binaries onlypetalTongue provides dashboards; Galaxy-style builder not planned
Multi-user web interfaceLocal/LAN onlybiomeOS IPC supports multi-client; web tier not planned
Instrument controlAnalysis only, no instrument driversWe analyze what instruments produce, not drive them
Established communityOne developer, public repos3.2M lines of Rust, 107K+ tests, 70+ papers reproduced, all validation executable
Formal GxP auditArchitecture maps to GxP; no auditor has reviewed itNeeds institutional partner
Training/workshopsNo formal curriculumK-Nome methodology documented; course design planned

How To Evaluate

# Pick the spring relevant to your domain:
git clone [email protected]:syntheticChemistry/healthSpring.git  # PK/PD, clinical
git clone [email protected]:syntheticChemistry/wetSpring.git     # 16S, metagenomics, LC-MS

# Build (requires Rust 1.87+ from rustup.rs — 2 minute install)
cd healthSpring && cargo test --workspace   # 613 tests, 0 failures
cd wetSpring/barracuda && cargo test --workspace  # 1,443 tests, 0 failures

# Run a specific validation
cargo run --release --bin exp001_hill       # Hill dose-response
cargo run --release --bin validate_diversity # Shannon/Simpson/Pielou/Chao1

# No Python. No R. No conda. No Docker. No licenses. No cloud account.

Published Work Reproduced With Full Provenance

The springs reproduce published, peer-reviewed science as acceptance tests for the infrastructure. Each entry below is a researcher whose published work has been independently reimplemented in Rust, cross-validated against the original Python/R/MATLAB results, and promoted to GPU — with every check automated, every tolerance explicit, and every result fully public under the scyBorg license.

ResearcherDepartmentPublished DomainSpringPapers Reproduced
Christopher WatersMMG, MSUQuorum sensing, biofilmwetSpring7
Kevin LiuCMSE, MSUPhylogenetics, HMMwetSpring6
Michael MurilloCMSE, MSUPlasma physics, MDhotSpring22
Andrea GonzalesPhmTox, MSUJAK inhibitors, ADwetSpring, neuralSpring, healthSpring6 (G1–G6)
Rika AndersonBiology, CarletonMetagenomics, pangenomicswetSpring6
A. Daniel JonesBMB, MSUPFAS mass spectrometrywetSpring2
Ilya KachkovskiyMath, MSUSpectral theory, AndersonwetSpring, groundSpring1+
Jesse CahillSandiaAlgal monitoringwetSpring1
Chuck SmallwoodSandiaBloom surveillancewetSpring1

Total across all springs: 70+ papers reproduced, 107,000+ test functions, 614K lines of Rust. Every reproduction is executable: cargo run --release --bin validate_* reproduces the result on your hardware.


Contact

ecoPrimal — github.com/ecoPrimals Written and developed by ecoPrimal: human + synthetic intelligence. Built on ~$15,000 of consumer hardware. Zero cloud bills. Zero licenses.