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We conduct bias audits during model development and testing. Our models are evaluated across diverse demographic datasets, and we partner with academic and clinical collaborators to validate performance in real world settings.

At Owkin, preventing bias in K-Navigator’s recommendations is a central focus throughout the model development lifecycle. We conduct comprehensive bias audits during both development and testing phases, using a variety of statistical and qualitative checks to identify and mitigate potential sources of bias.

Our models are systematically evaluated across diverse demographic and clinical datasets to ensure that recommendations are robust and equitable for all patient groups. To further strengthen our safeguards, we collaborate closely with leading academic and clinical partners who independently assess K-Navigator’s performance in real-world settings. Their feedback helps us refine our models and address any disparities that might emerge.

Additionally, we maintain ongoing monitoring after deployment, so that any new or unforeseen sources of bias can be quickly identified and corrected. Our commitment to transparency means that users can always trace the data sources and rationale behind K-Navigator’s recommendations.

By combining rigorous technical evaluation with diverse, real-world validation and continuous monitoring, we strive to deliver recommendations that are fair, reliable, and trustworthy for everyone.

We see the opposite effect. Researchers are more empowered, more productive, and more collaborative when supported by intelligent tools. K-Navigator allows teams to tackle big questions by expanding their capabilities.

We believe that accelerating scientific discovery responsibly is a must. BASI is not about replacing human reasoning; it’s about scaling scientific insight through AI and human collaboration. We’re advancing toward this vision carefully, with transparency, oversight, and a commitment to a shared benefit for humanity.

At Owkin, we believe that accelerating scientific discovery must always be balanced with ethical responsibility. The concept of Biological Artificial Superintelligence (BASI) is not intended to replace human reasoning or judgment. Instead, BASI is designed to amplify and scale scientific insight by fostering collaboration between advanced AI systems and human experts.

We are fully aware of the ethical complexities that come with developing such transformative technologies. That’s why our approach is grounded in transparency, rigorous oversight, and continuous consultation with diverse stakeholders—including scientists, clinicians, ethicists.

Our development processes integrate ethical review and risk assessment at every stage, ensuring that BASI is aligned with the broader interests of society. We are committed to ensuring that the benefits of BASI are shared equitably, and that its insights are used to advance scientific understanding and improve human health for everyone.

Ultimately, we see BASI as a tool for responsible innovation—one that accelerates discovery while upholding the highest standards of ethics, accountability, and public trust.

At Owkin, we recognize that any scientific tool, whether it’s AI-driven, a spreadsheet, or statistical software, can be misused or lead to misleading conclusions if not applied responsibly. That’s why K Navigator is built with robust safeguards to promote transparency, accountability, and scientific rigor.

Every result generated by K-Navigator is grounded in evidence from authoritative sources such as PubMed and validated biological knowledge bases. For each output, users can trace back recommendations to their original sources, ensuring full provenance and transparency. Our explainability features log every data source, model decision, and rationale, making the reasoning process fully visible and auditable.

To further reduce the risk of false or hallucinated information, we’ve implemented technical checks to verify that every cited source exists and is relevant to the scientific question at hand. However, we acknowledge that no AI system is infallible—scientific oversight and expert review remain essential. K-Navigator is designed to assist researchers, not replace human expertise or decision-making.With these measures, we empower users to make informed, reliable decisions while maintaining the highest standards of scientific integrity.

K-Navigator is a powerful copilot designed to accelerate and enhance biomedical research by integrating advanced AI with trusted scientific resources. Here’s what K-Navigator can do for you:

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Literature review & gap analysis:

K-Navigator can rapidly review scientific literature on any biomedical topic, giving you concise, journal-style summaries. It identifies what is already known, highlights the latest publication trends, and points out areas where further research could have a significant impact.

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Consolidated knowledge from multiple, trusted sources:

By drawing from only credible data sources, including PubMed and comprehensive biological knowledge bases, K-Navigator provides synthesized, evidence-based insights to answer your scientific questions. All data and recommendations are fully traceable, so you can verify the underlying sources.

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Smart Hypothesis Testing:

You can use K-Navigator to validate scientific hypotheses, leveraging advanced statistical reasoning and up-to-date datasets. The system helps you explore whether your ideas are supported by the current body of scientific evidence.

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Scientific Writing Assistance

Need to draft a review paragraph, scientific summary, or section for a manuscript? K-Navigator generates high-quality, publication-ready text tailored to your research needs.

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Interactive Data Visualization

K-Navigator creates interactive plots and data visualizations using resources like TCGA and MOSAIC, making it easy to summarize, analyze, and interpret complex patient datasets. You can explore data by slicing and dicing variables to uncover deeper insights.

K-Navigator is purpose-built for biomedical research, offering unique features and scientific rigor that go far beyond the capabilities of general-purpose LLMs. Here’s what sets K-Navigator apart:

1. Smarter Scientific Reasoning

Unlike generic LLMs that often provide surface-level or generic answers, K-Navigator delivers scientifically robust reasoning. It supports every analysis with statistical evidence—such as p-values and population-level data—so you can trust the validity of its findings and never have to rely on guesswork.

2. Exclusive Access to Cutting-Edge Data

K-Navigator provides access to specialized datasets unavailable in mainstream LLMs. For example, you can analyze MOSAIC Window, a subset of the largest multiomic spatial oncology dataset, unlocking insights from a unique and powerful data resource.

3. Interactive, User-Driven Visualizations

With K-Navigator, data exploration is intuitive and interactive. You can iterate on data visualizations in real time using plain language. Just ask to filter charts by new variables, compare groups, or adjust parameters. This makes deep data analysis both faster and more engaging.

4. Publication-Ready Scientific Writing

K-Navigator generates responses that sound like real scientific writing. Its outputs follow accepted scientific conventions, producing clear, coherent, and publication-ready paragraphs—no more generic or off-topic content.

5. Designed by Scientists, for Scientists

While generic LLMs are designed for broad, everyday tasks (such as writing poems or planning trips) and are based on data from all over the web, K-Navigator is laser-focused on the specific needs of researchers and only pulls from credible scientific sources. It’s engineered by scientists to fit the workflows, language, and standards of the biomedical community, ensuring relevance and credibility in every interaction.

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K-Navigator empowers researchers with rigorous scientific reasoning, exclusive data access, interactive analytics, and precise scientific communication—delivering specialized support that generic LLMs simply can’t match.

At Owkin, keeping your data secure is our highest priority. While much of our technology is developed and managed in-house, we also partner with select, highly reputable vendors who must meet our stringent privacy, security, and ethics standards. Each partner is carefully vetted through rigorous due diligence, including detailed security assessments and contractual requirements aligned with our own commitments.

To ensure the highest standards of information protection, we employ robust organizational and technical measures, conduct regular internal and external audits, and perform comprehensive Security Risk Assessments with every major change to our systems. When integrating large language models or other third-party components, we choose hosting options that guarantee privacy and confidentiality for all data and outputs. This privacy-first approach ensures full compliance with GDPR and HIPAA requirements.

Owkin is certified to ISO 27001:2022 for information security and ISO 13485:2016 for medical device quality, reflecting our ongoing dedication to safeguarding your data. With these measures in place, you can be confident that your information is protected at every stage.

K Navigator is an AI-powered copilot designed specifically for biologists and biomedical researchers. It’s a no-code platform that enables the rapid generation, testing, and refinement of scientific hypotheses, especially in oncology, making it accessible to everyone, regardless of coding skills.

Unlike general-purpose AI, K Navigator is tailored for research, helping users explore complex multiomic data. Built by scientists for scientists, it combines scientific rigor with user-friendly design, ensuring every result is credible, transparent, and easily traceable back to trusted sources - all through natural language interaction.

Owkin does not claim any ownership over user-submitted content or outputs. Owkin and its affiliates will only benefit from a non-exclusive license to use, reproduce, represent and exploit the content and output to improve their services and/or products.

MOSAIC Window is a curated subset of the groundbreaking MOSAIC dataset, available through K-Navigator. It includes spatial omics and multimodal data from 60 patients across five cancer types: BLCA (15), OV (15), GBM (10), DLBCL (10), and MESO (10). This unique resource enables researchers to explore tumor biology at near single-cell resolution, providing detailed insight into tumor and immune cell interactions.

MOSAIC (Multi Omic Spatial Atlas In Cancer) is an international collaboration between Owkin and leading cancer research institutions, including the University of Pittsburgh, Gustave Roussy, Lausanne University Hospital, Uniklinikum Erlangen/Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, and Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin. The initiative combines spatial and single-cell transcriptomics with AI to create comprehensive maps of tumor environments across 6 data modalities, aiming to unlock new treatments for some of the most challenging cancers. By integrating vast spatial omics datasets and Owkin’s AI capabilities, MOSAIC is driving the next wave of cancer research and therapeutic discovery.

K-Navigator provides filtering capabilities based on a wide range of clinical and genetic variables from the TCGA and the MOSAIC Window datasets. For example, you can specify: "Show the proportion of immune cell types in MOSAIC window bladder cancer patients over 50 years old."

Below is the list of public and private datasets currently available in the Owkin K Navigator platform, along with their respective licenses and versions:

You have two easy options if you wish to report an issue with K-Navigator:

1. Submit a request via our Help Center for technical issues or questions.
2. Share feedback on the tool via survey . You can do that anytime through our in-app survey (look for the blue 'open survey' button on the right side of your chat interface).

We value your input—it helps us improve the tool for everyone! 

At Owkin, we are deeply committed to ensuring K-Navigator is used ethically and responsibly. While any advanced tool can, in theory, be misused, we have put in place robust safeguards to prevent this. K-Navigator features strict role-based access controls, detailed usage monitoring, and transparent sourcing for every insight, making all actions traceable and accountable.

We also require all partner institutions to agree to our ethical usage policies, and we reserve the right to suspend access immediately if misuse is detected. These measures, combined with continuous oversight, help ensure K-Navigator remains a force for good in research and innovation.

Our dedication to ethical standards means you can trust in our ongoing vigilance and commitment to responsible use.

Agentic behavior is strictly managed by role based permissions and safety checks. K Navigator is not designed to self-initiate actions beyond its assigned domain and cannot operate without authenticated users and guardrails.

At Owkin, we recognize the importance of managing AI systems that can act “agentically”—that is, systems capable of taking independent actions within defined boundaries. To ensure responsible use, K Navigator’s agentic behavior is strictly governed by robust role-based permissions and multiple layers of safety checks.

K Navigator is deliberately not designed to self-initiate actions outside its clearly assigned domain. Every function it performs is subject to explicit user authentication and operates within carefully established limits. All actions are traceable to authenticated users, and comprehensive guardrails are in place to prevent unauthorized or unintended operations.

In addition, we regularly review and update these controls to keep pace with emerging best practices in AI safety and governance. By combining technical safeguards with clear operational policies, we ensure that agentic capabilities are used solely to support and empower qualified users—never to replace human oversight or operate without accountability.

This approach allows us to harness the power of advanced AI while maintaining trust, transparency, and full control over its actions at all times.

Yes, we are engaged with regulatory bodies and bioethics groups. We have also invited the academic community to be amongst beta testers and early users, to have biologists help us build K-Navigator for biologists.