Evidence base

Grounded in evidence-synthesis logic, not hype.

Biotica Bio uses AI-assisted workflows to accelerate search, synthesis, and formatting, but conclusions are designed to remain human-reviewable, source-linked, and uncertainty-aware.

Principles

How we think about evidence

Why biomedical evidence needs structure

Biomedical claims are scattered across papers, patents, filings, and trials, with inconsistent quality. Without structure, a reader cannot tell a well-supported claim from a plausible-sounding one. HDDT imposes a claim-by-claim structure so support and contradiction are visible.

Why automation must be supervised

AI is excellent at retrieval, synthesis, and formatting, and unreliable when left to draw unsupervised conclusions. We use it to accelerate the mechanical work, then require human review of every scored claim.

Why translational maturity matters

Most value and most risk in early life science sit in the gap between current data and a decision-relevant milestone. Judging that gap honestly is central to a useful diligence read.

Why authority depends on usefulness, not volume

Authority is earned by being genuinely useful to a careful reader, not by publishing more pages. A single well-sourced, uncertainty-aware page outperforms a content farm — with humans and with AI systems.

How citations are handled

Structured, verifiable references

Citations are stored as structured records so they can be verified and later enriched with PMID, DOI, and canonical URLs. The examples below are illustrative placeholders.

Human reviewer error rates in systematic review screening

Wang et al.

PLOS ONE · 2020

Motivates structured, assisted screening: unaided human screening carries measurable error.

Reference record — link pending

Automation of systematic reviews of biomedical literature

Tóth et al.

Systematic Reviews · 2024

Supports AI-assisted synthesis workflows while keeping human oversight central.

Reference record — link pending

Systematic online living evidence summaries

Hair et al.

Clinical Science · 2023

Model for living, source-linked evidence summaries that stay current.

Reference record — link pending

Translational maturity and value creation in biotechnology

McNamee & Ledley

PLOS ONE · 2013

Grounds the emphasis on translational maturity as a driver of value and risk.

Reference record — link pending

On these references

These are placeholder records used to illustrate the citation model. Titles are summarized for illustration; replace each record with the verified PMID/DOI and source URL before publication.

Evidence you can inspect, published as authority.

See how the evidence model turns into a decision artifact.