MétaCan
Menu
Back to cohort
Record W4407114045 · doi:10.1186/s12859-025-06050-2

BioLake: an RNA expression analysis framework for prostate cancer biomarker powered by data lakehouse

2025· article· en· W4407114045 on OpenAlexaff
Qiaowang Li, Yaser Gamallat, Jon Rokne, Tarek A. Bismar, Reda Alhajj

Bibliographic record

VenueBMC Bioinformatics · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicGene expression and cancer classification
Canadian institutionsProstate Cancer CanadaUniversity of Calgary
Fundersnot available
KeywordsUploadComputer scienceRaw dataScalabilityFlexibility (engineering)Data scienceData pre-processingPipeline (software)Data miningWorkflowData warehouseDatabaseWorld Wide Web

Abstract

fetched live from OpenAlex

Biomedical researchers must often deal with large amounts of raw data, and analysis of this data might provide significant insights. However, if the raw data size is large, it might be difficult to uncover these insights. In this paper, a data framework named BioLake is presented that provides minimalist interactive methods to help researchers conduct bioinformatics data analysis. Unlike some existing analytical tools on the market, BioLake supports a wide range of web-based bioinformatics data analysis for public datasets, while allowing researchers to analyze their private datasets instantly. The tool also significantly enhances result interpretability by providing the source code and detailed instructions. In terms of data storage design, BioLake adopts the data lakehouse architecture to provide storage scalability and analysis flexibility. To further enhance the analysis efficiency, BioLake supports online analysis for custom data, allowing researchers to upload their own data via a designed procedure without waiting for server-side approval. BioLake allows a one-time upload of custom data of up to 500 MB to ensure that researchers avoid issues with data being too large for upload. In terms of the built-in dataset, BioLake applies reactive continuous data integration, helping the analysis pipeline to get rid of most preprocessing steps. The only pre-built-in dataset of BioLake in the first public version is TCGA-PRAD mRNA expression data for prostate cancer research, which is the primary focus of the development team of BioLake. In summary, BioLake offers a lightweight online tool to facilitate bioinformatic mRNA data analysis with the support of custom online data processing.

Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.

How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.540
Threshold uncertainty score0.668

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.044
GPT teacher head0.353
Teacher spread0.309 · 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 teacher head, not a consensus.

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

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".

Quick stats

Citations2
Published2025
Admission routes1
Has abstractyes

Explore more

Same venueBMC BioinformaticsSame topicGene expression and cancer classificationFrench-language works237,207