Clinical Trial Intelligence — Foundation Learning Guide¶
For a reader with no background in this area. If you have watched the Foundations film series, this follows directly from it.
The one idea to hold¶
Every approved medicine passed through staged human trials. Matching a patient to an open trial is often the only route to a new option.
What this subject does with that idea¶
Finds the trials a patient may be eligible for, and what a candidate molecule would need to enter one.
Trial matching closes the loop: a discovered molecule is only a hypothesis until there is a path to test it in people.
Decision support for a qualified clinician — never autonomous diagnosis or prescribing. Every output on this page is intended to inform a clinician's judgement, not replace it.
What it cannot do¶
Matching is informational. Eligibility is determined by the trial investigators, not by this agent.
Stating the limit is not a disclaimer bolted on the end — it is how you tell a tool that helps from a tool that misleads.
Vocabulary you will meet¶
| Term | Plain meaning |
|---|---|
| Capability | One named thing the platform can do, registered in capabilities.json |
live / planned |
Whether a capability actually answers today, or is intended |
| Decision support | Output that informs a clinician; it never decides |
| LIVE / REPRESENTATIVE / BURST | Whether a demo ran now, was pre-computed, or ran on remote GPUs |
Try it¶
The demo for this subject is A6:
.venv/bin/python scripts/run_demo.py A6
If it reports BLOCKED, the message names exactly what is missing. That is intentional — a demo
that cannot run says so rather than showing you something canned.