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trAIt: Species-by-Trait Data Retrieval using Large Language Models.

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    trAIt software uses a large language model (LLM) to extract species traits from scientific literature, accelerating data synthesis for researchers. While efficient, it best supports, rather than replaces, expert biological curation.

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    Area of Science:

    • Bioinformatics
    • Computational Biology
    • Zoology

    Background:

    • Biological research necessitates comprehensive species trait data.
    • Manual literature review for trait information is labor-intensive and prone to omissions.
    • Existing methods struggle to efficiently synthesize large volumes of scientific literature.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To introduce trAIt, a novel software tool for automated species trait retrieval from scientific literature.
    • To evaluate the efficiency and accuracy of trAIt in extracting species-characteristic data.
    • To assess the utility of large language models (LLMs) in biological data synthesis.

    Main Methods:

    • Development of trAIt software with a graphical user interface (GUI).
    • Integration of a large language model (LLM) for literature retrieval and a consensus-based summarization model.
    • Application of trAIt to case studies involving frog and vertebrate species, comparing results with expert curation.

    Main Results:

    • trAIt recovered 47.1% of frog trait-species combinations in 2.75 hours, compared to expert recovery over months.
    • Expert review confirmed the accuracy of 70.9% of trait-species entries generated by trAIt across vertebrate taxa.
    • Accuracy varied by taxa, potentially due to literature availability and terminology inconsistencies.

    Conclusions:

    • LLM-based tools like trAIt can significantly accelerate biological data synthesis.
    • trAIt demonstrates potential for supporting, but not replacing, the judgment of domain experts.
    • Further development is needed to address variations in accuracy across different taxa.