VX: an AI-enabled desktop genome viewer and transcriptome browser with a programmable analysis framework (opens in new tab)

Background. Genome and transcriptome browsers are central to the interpretation of high-throughput sequencing data, but today's tools assume a human operator at a graphical interface and offer only limited programmability. As large-language-model assistants become routine in bioinformatics citep{MCP2024}, this creates a bottleneck: agents cannot observe the visual state of the browser or drive it through the same interface as the human user, and analyses remain fragmented across a separate ec...