BioRAG-DRAG: A Multimodal Biological Retrieval Layer for Local-First Biomedical Agents (opens in new tab)

Biomedical agents need reliable access to heterogeneous evidence: literature text, gene and pathway records, protein sequences, DNA/cDNA sequences, and structured biological relations. Classical sequence tools such as BLAST remain the right choice for alignment-grounded verification, but they are not a unified context interface for large language model agents. We present BioRAG-DRAG, a local-first multimodal retrieval layer that combines pluggable neural sequence-text retrieval, BLAST verific...