🔥 Prometheus

AI-Powered Citizen Science — Searching for antimicrobial peptides, exoplanets, and the unknown.

What We Do

Prometheus is a citizen science initiative that uses AI and machine learning to accelerate scientific discovery. We build open-source pipelines that screen millions of sequences for potentially useful molecules — then share everything we find.

All our results are computational predictions. Nothing has been experimentally validated. We're transparent about what our models can and can't do.

Active Projects

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AMPHunter

Scanning extreme environments for novel antimicrobial peptides using ESM-2 protein language models. 2,500+ computational candidates across 5 biomes.

Metagenomics ESM-2 Drug Resistance

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ExoHunter

Machine learning pipeline for detecting exoplanet transit signals in TESS light curves. XGBoost + CNN hybrid vetter.

TESS Transit Detection ML Vetting

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ExoExplorer

Interactive exoplanet dashboard with 5,700+ confirmed planets. Explore habitable zones, alien ecosystems, and planet hunting stories.

Visualization Education Next.js

Latest Posts

Mar 31, 2026
Introducing Prometheus — AI-Powered Citizen Science

Why we built an AI research initiative, what we are working on, and what comes next.
Mar 30, 2026
AMPHunter: Scanning Hot Springs for Antimicrobial Peptides

2,001 computational AMP candidates from thermophilic metagenomes — our first biome report.

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By The Numbers

2,500+

AMP Candidates

Biomes Scanned

100%

Open Source

About

Prometheus is built by a small team using AI agents (Claude, GPT) as research assistants. We believe powerful AI tools should be used for real scientific exploration — not just chatbots.

Everything is open source. Sequences, models, code, results — all publicly available. If you're a researcher interested in our candidates, get in touch.