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Record W3212315066 · doi:10.21105/joss.03756

A flexible search system for high-accuracy identification of biological entities and molecules

2021· article· en· W3212315066 on OpenAlexaff
Max Franz, Jeffrey V. Wong, Metin Can Siper, Christian Dallago, John Giorgi, Emek Demir, Chris Sander, Gary D. Bader

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Journal of Open Source Software · 2021
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicGenetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research
Canadian institutionsPrincess Margaret Cancer CentreLunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research InstituteUniversity Health NetworkMount Sinai HospitalUniversity of Toronto
FundersNational Institutes of Health
KeywordsIdentification (biology)Computer scienceComputational biologyBiologyEcology

Abstract

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Identifying subcellular biological entities (genes, gene products, and small molecules) is essential in using and creating bioinformatics analysis tools, text mining, and accessible biological research apps.When research information is uniquely and unambiguously identified, it enables data to be accurately retrieved, cross-referenced, and integrated.In practice, biological entities are identified when they are associated with a matching record from a knowledge base that specialises in collecting and organising information of that type (e.g.genes in NCBI Gene).Our search service increases the efficiency and ease of use for identifying biological entities compared to prior approaches (Berriz & Roth, 2008;Côté et al., 2007;Juty et al., 2012;Reimand et al., 2007).A comparison of similar tools is available in the software documentation (Franz et al., 2021a).This identification service may be used to power research apps and tools, such as Biofactoid, GeneMANIA, and STRING, where colloquial entity names may be provided as input by users (Mering et al., 2003;

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.007
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Software · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.023
Threshold uncertainty score0.078

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.007
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.002
Bibliometrics0.0050.005
Science and technology studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0030.004
Open science0.0030.004
Research integrity0.0020.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0230.018

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.041
GPT teacher head0.327
Teacher spread0.286 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreSoftware

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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