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Record W7108685807 · doi:10.5376/cmb.2025.15.0016

Large Language Models for Biological Knowledge Extraction

2025· article· W7108685807 on OpenAlex

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venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueComputational Molecular Biology · 2025
Typearticle
Language
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicBiomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsProcess (computing)Information extractionKnowledge representation and reasoningKnowledge extractionRelation (database)Domain (mathematical analysis)Relationship extractionEvent (particle physics)Domain knowledge

Abstract

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The surge in biomedical literature has led to severe information overload for researchers, necessitating automated knowledge extraction tools. Large Language Models (LLMs), which have emerged in recent years, demonstrate superior performance in text understanding and generation, providing a new approach for biological knowledge extraction. This study reviews the applications of LLMs in tasks such as named entity recognition, relation extraction, and event extraction, and discusses their latest advancements in subfields such as genomics, proteomics, and pharmacology. The advantages of LLMs over traditional methods in contextual understanding and semantic representation are analyzed, along with the optimization effects of domain adaptation, fine-tuning, and cue engineering on model performance. A case study of extracting gene-disease associations using the BioGPT model demonstrates the application process and effectiveness of LLMs, while also analyzing challenges related to data quality, model illusion, and privacy protection. The future directions of LLM integration with knowledge graphs, multimodal data integration, and knowledge verification are discussed, along with related ethical considerations. These advancements are expected to provide new paradigms for future biomedical research.

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.922
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0010.000
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 head0.024
GPT teacher head0.373
Teacher spread0.348 · 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