Open computational research for cellular agriculture
The Tufts University Center for Cellular Agriculture builds open-source software, AI & computational-biology methods, and curated resources for cultivated meat and cellular agriculture. This is the home for our code, documentation, and projects.
New to cellular agriculture? It’s the production of agricultural products from cultured cells rather than whole animals — spanning cellular products like cultivated meat and acellular products (e.g. dairy proteins) made by cells. Get oriented with the CAAIL primer or TUCCA’s About page.
Our projects
Section titled “Our projects”A curated, openly-licensed library at the intersection of cellular agriculture and AI: peer-reviewed papers, software, databases, and per-species datasets.
Computational blue-melanin designDe novo design of stable blue (and purple/green) melanin pigments via RFdiffusion motif scaffolding of Y-containing pentapeptides — deep-learning protein design applied to sustainable colorants.
AST: Adherent-to-Suspension TranscriptomicsTime-series RNA-seq dissecting how chicken fibroblasts adapt from adherent to suspension growth — uncovering a YAP–FoxO1 mechanism for anchorage-independent proliferation.
tucca-rna-seqA reproducible RNA-Seq workflow on Snakemake v8+ — QC through differential
expression and functional enrichment, with Tufts HPC guidance. Being reworked
into a downstream toolkit for nf-core/rna-seq.
Recent publications
Section titled “Recent publications”Start here
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