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Alison M Veintimilla1, Chintan K Acharya2, Connie J Mulligan3
1Fischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States.
Introduction:
Ancestry reporting is essential to ensure transparency and proper representation in biomedical studies. However, manually extracting this information from study texts is time-consuming and inefficient. In this paper, we present TRACE (Tool for Researching Ancestry and Cell Extraction), powered by GPT-4 and web-crawling, to automate ancestry identification by detecting cell lines or cultures in texts and tracing their ancestry.
Methods:
TRACE extracts cell lines and primary cultures from research articles and follows web sources to determine their ancestry. We compared TRACE's outputs to a manually generated database to confirm its performance in identifying and verifying ancestry information.
Results:
The results reveal an overrepresentation of European/White samples and significant underreporting. TRACE enables large-scale, systematic ancestry analysis-a valuable resource for researchers and agencies assessing biases in sample selection.
Conclusions:
As an open-source tool, TRACE it facilitates broader use to evaluate and improve ancestry representation in biomedical research.
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