{"slug": "show-hn-frontierbioml-can-coding-agents-do-ml-for-computational-biology", "title": "Show HN: FrontierBioML – Can coding agents do ML for computational biology?", "summary": "Valen Labs released FrontierBioML, a benchmark that evaluates coding agents on machine learning tasks in computational biology, and published its findings on the company blog. The release includes a leaderboard ranking agents by mean of per-task mean scores with run counts and 95% intervals, alongside average cost per agent, score-over-time charts, and per-task score breakdowns. The benchmark is intended to measure whether coding agents can carry out ML work in computational biology rather than only general software tasks.", "body_md": "# FrontierBioML\n\nEvaluating agents on machine learning tasks in computational biology.\n\n[Read about our findings](https://valenlabs.com/blog/frontierbioml)\n\n## Leaderboard\n\n| Mean of per-task mean scores per agent, with run counts and a 95% interval |  |  |  |  | \n|---|---|---|---|---|\n| # | Model | n | Mean score | Avg cost | \n|---|---|---|---|---|\n\n## Score against time\n\n## Mean score by task\n\n| Mean score per agent and task, with run scores | \n|---|\n\n## Task Categories\n\n## Example tasks\n\n## Citation\n\nPlease cite this work as:", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-frontierbioml-can-coding-agents-do-ml-for-computational-biology", "canonical_source": "https://www.frontierbioml.com/", "published_at": "2026-11-13 22:36:06+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-11-13 22:51:54.964863+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "machine-learning", "ai-research", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Valen Labs", "FrontierBioML"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-frontierbioml-can-coding-agents-do-ml-for-computational-biology", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-frontierbioml-can-coding-agents-do-ml-for-computational-biology.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-frontierbioml-can-coding-agents-do-ml-for-computational-biology.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-frontierbioml-can-coding-agents-do-ml-for-computational-biology.jsonld"}}