About
CAAIL (the Cellular Agriculture AI Library) is a curated, openly-licensed map of the work at the intersection of cellular agriculture and artificial intelligence — the peer-reviewed papers, open-source software, databases, and per-species datasets the field builds on.
How it is organized
Section titled “How it is organized”- Papers Explorer — primary research arranged as a matrix of AI method × research area, plus reviews and perspectives. Cells link to numbered references; each reference surfaces its DOI and any associated code or data.
- Software and Databases — tools and lookup resources grouped by application area.
- Datasets — the train-on artifacts of the field, organized by species (cow, pig, chicken, fish, and more) alongside cross-species reference data and AI/ML benchmarks.
- Research Areas — deep-dive pages for media optimization, cellular engineering, bioprocess control, scaffolding, sensory prediction, and the AI tooling and evaluation that cut across them.
- Talks & Videos — curated lectures and explainers.
This site is a navigation layer. The canonical, GitHub-readable Markdown files remain the source of truth, and every entry links back to its authoritative source — the curated summaries here are deliberately compressed, so follow the links for schemas, licenses, and full detail.
Contributing
Section titled “Contributing”Suggestions for new papers, tools, datasets, and resources are welcome. See Contributing for how entries are categorized and added, or open an issue or pull request on the GitHub repository.
How to cite
Section titled “How to cite”CAAIL is archived on Zenodo with a citable DOI (10.5281/zenodo.20295590). If you reference the library or build on its curated content, see How to Cite for the APA and BibTeX forms. When citing a specific catalogued paper, tool, or dataset, cite the original source directly rather than CAAIL.
About TUCCA
Section titled “About TUCCA”CAAIL is a project of the Tufts University Center for Cellular Agriculture (TUCCA) — an interdisciplinary center of excellence that works to “democratize the scientific building blocks of cultivated meat, build a pipeline of talent and expertise, and foster public trust in this novel technology.” Its vision is “a world where everything from meat to milk to eggs can be grown from cells instead of animals.”
TUCCA is a collaborative hub spanning Tufts’ five schools and eleven departments, and launched the world’s first undergraduate degree in cellular agriculture. Its research runs across the field — cells, media, scaffolding, bioreactors and scale-up, media recovery, life-cycle and techno-economic analysis, consumer assessment, and nutrition and safety. CAAIL grows out of TUCCA’s modeling and informatics work: the use of predictive, data-driven, and AI methods to accelerate every one of those areas.
Learn more on the TUCCA website, about page, and mission, vision & goals.
License
Section titled “License”CAAIL’s library content is released under the MIT License; linked third-party resources remain under their own licenses. CAAIL is Tufts-affiliated but is not official Tufts University identity.