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Swagarika J Giri¹, Udayan Pandey¹, Joon Hong Park¹

¹Department of Computer Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA.

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Summary

This summary is machine-generated.

Interpreting long lists of Gene Ontology (GO) terms for protein function is challenging. Our new tool, GO2Sum, uses a language model to summarize these GO terms into concise, understandable text for biologists.

Keywords:

Function prediction GO2Sum Gene ontology LLM Large language model Protein function Summarization

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Bioinformatics
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Molecular Biology

Background:

Understanding protein function is crucial in modern biology.
Current methods often yield lengthy lists of Gene Ontology (GO) terms, hindering interpretation.
Biologists face challenges in synthesizing extensive GO term data for functional insights.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a novel method for summarizing lengthy Gene Ontology (GO) term lists.
To create a tool that converts GO terms into concise, free-text descriptions of protein functions.
To enhance the accessibility and interpretability of protein function data for researchers.

Main Methods:

Developed Gene Ontology terms Summarizer (GO2Sum), a language model-based summarization tool.
Fine-tuned GO2Sum using GO term assignments and free-text function descriptions from UniProt.
Integrated GO2Sum into a user-friendly Web server for biological applications.

Main Results:

GO2Sum effectively summarizes extensive lists of GO terms into coherent, informative text.
The generated summaries include details on protein function, subunit structure, and pathway information.
A functional Web server was established, providing easy access to the GO2Sum tool.

Conclusions:

GO2Sum addresses the challenge of interpreting large sets of GO terms.
The tool provides a concise and biologically relevant summary of protein functions.
GO2Sum enhances the usability of GO annotations for the broader biological community.