TRACE:应用AI语言模型从精选的生物医学文献中提取祖先信息
Alison M Veintimilla1, Chintan K Acharya2, Connie J Mulligan3
1Fischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States.
Frontiers in digital health
|October 6, 2025
概括
一个新的工具TRACE可以自动识别生物医学研究中的细胞系祖先. 这有助于研究人员系统地分析样本代表性和解决偏见,提高研究的透明度.
科学领域:
- 生物医学研究生物医学研究
- 基因组学就是基因组学.
- 生物信息学是一种生物信息学.
背景情况:
- 准确的祖先报告对于生物医学研究的透明度和代表性至关重要.
- 从研究文本中手动提取祖先数据是低效和耗时的.
- 对某些祖先的报道不足和过度报道可能会在研究结果中引入偏见.
研究的目的:
- 开发一个自动化工具,TRACE (Tool for Researching Ancestry and Cell Extraction),用于识别和追踪细胞系和初级培养的祖先.
- 提高从生物医学文献中提取祖先数据的效率和准确性.
- 促进研究中祖先代表性的大规模,系统的分析.
主要方法:
- TRACE使用GPT-4和网络爬虫技术来检测研究文章中的细胞系或细胞培养.
- 该工具提取了已识别的细胞系和初级文化,并通过网络来源追踪它们的祖先.
- 通过将其输出与手动策划的祖先信息数据库进行比较,验证了TRACE的性能.
主要成果:
- 该研究发现,在分析的文献中,欧洲/白人样本的比例过高.
- 观察到大量的祖先信息报告不足.
- TRACE在识别和验证祖先数据方面表现出有效性,使得系统分析成为可能.
结论:
- TRACE为研究人员和机构提供了一个宝贵的资源,以评估样本选择中的偏见.
- 作为一个开源工具,TRACE促进了对生物医学研究中祖先代表性的评估和改进的更广泛采用.
- 自动化祖先识别提高了透明度,并确保了科学研究中的适当代表性.
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