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Area of Science:

Biomedical Informatics
Computational Biology
Precision Medicine

Background:

Translating omics data analysis into scientific hypotheses is challenging due to manual review of results and fragmented biomedical knowledge.
Heterogeneous databases with inconsistent nomenclature hinder the integration of biomedical data for AI systems.
Large language models (LLMs) require structured, comprehensive prior knowledge for improved reasoning in scientific discovery.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop an all-in-one platform for harmonizing fragmented biomedical resources.
To create a unified textual prior knowledge graph for scalable analysis.
To introduce a novel text-numeric-graph (TNG) data structure for advanced graph analysis models.

Main Methods:

Integrated 11 entity types and 30 relation types from 43 databases.
Constructed a unified textual prior knowledge graph with over 2.3 million entities and 27 million relations.
Developed a novel text-numeric-graph (TNG) data structure combining textual, numeric, and graph information.

Main Results:

Created BioMedGraphica, a platform harmonizing fragmented biomedical data into a knowledge graph.
The BioMedGraphica knowledge graph contains 2,306,921 entities and 27,232,091 relations.
The TNG data structure effectively bridges prior knowledge with user-specific data for uncovering mechanisms.

Conclusions:

BioMedGraphica provides a scalable solution for hypothesis generation in precision medicine.
The TNG data structure is ideal for developing novel graph analysis models by integrating diverse data types.
This work facilitates AI-driven scientific discovery by leveraging comprehensive and unified biomedical knowledge.