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most citedStructured prompt interrogation and recursive extraction of semantics (SPIRES): A method for populating knowledge bases using zero-shot learning

113 citations · 484 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

cs.DB2025★ 5 cited

LinkML: An Open Data Modeling Framework

Sierra A. T. Moxon, Harold Solbrig, Nomi L. Harris +33

Scientific research relies on well-structured, standardized data; however, much of it is stored in formats such as free-text lab notebooks, non-standardized spreadsheets, or data r…

q-bio.QM2025

Why we need all the organisms: an exploration of the Monarch knowledge graph to aid mechanism discovery

Katherina Cortes, Daniel Korn, Sarah Gehrke +12

Research done using model organisms has been fundamental to the biological understanding of human genes, diseases and phenotypes. Model organisms provide tractable systems for expe…

cs.DB2025

Koza and Koza-Hub for born-interoperable knowledge graph generation using KGX

Daniel R Korn, Patrick Golden, Aaron Odell +10

Knowledge graph construction has become an essential domain for the future of biomedical research. But current approaches demand a high amount of redundant labor. These redundancie…

q-bio.QM2025

Enabling Down Syndrome Research through a Knowledge Graph-Driven Analytical Framework

Madan Krishnamurthy, Surya Saha, Pierrette Lo +5

Trisomy 21 results in Down syndrome, a multifaceted genetic disorder with diverse clinical phenotypes, including heart defects, immune dysfunction, neurodevelopmental differences,…

q-bio.OT2025★ 3 cited

Improving Biomedical Knowledge Graph Quality: A Community Approach

Katherina G Cortes, Shilpa Sundar, Sarah Gehrke +13

Biomedical knowledge graphs (KGs) are widely used across research and translational settings, yet their design decisions and implementation are often opaque. Unlike ontologies that…

cs.IR2025

A Dynamic Framework for Semantic Grouping of Common Data Elements (CDE) Using Embeddings and Clustering

Madan Krishnamurthy, Daniel Korn, Melissa A Haendel +2

This research aims to develop a dynamic and scalable framework to facilitate harmonization of Common Data Elements (CDEs) across heterogeneous biomedical datasets by addressing cha…

q-bio.OT2025★ 1 cited

The Cell Ontology in the age of single-cell omics

Shawn Zheng Kai Tan, Aleix Puig-Barbe, Damien Goutte-Gattat +32

Single-cell omics technologies have transformed our understanding of cellular diversity by enabling high-resolution profiling of individual cells. However, the unprecedented scale…

cs.CL2024★ 8 cited

CurateGPT: A flexible language-model assisted biocuration tool

Harry Caufield, Carlo Kroll, Shawn T O'Neil +10

Effective data-driven biomedical discovery requires data curation: a time-consuming process of finding, organizing, distilling, integrating, interpreting, annotating, and validatin…

q-bio.OT2024★ 2 cited

The Vertebrate Breed Ontology: Towards Effective Breed Data Standardization

Kathleen R. Mullen, Imke Tammen, Nicolas A. Matentzoglu +13

Background: Limited universally-adopted data standards in veterinary medicine hinder data interoperability and therefore integration and comparison; this ultimately impedes the app…

cs.AI2023★ 53 cited

Dynamic Retrieval Augmented Generation of Ontologies using Artificial Intelligence (DRAGON-AI)

Sabrina Toro, Anna V Anagnostopoulos, Sue Bello +27

Background: Ontologies are fundamental components of informatics infrastructure in domains such as biomedical, environmental, and food sciences, representing consensus knowledge in…

cs.CL2023★ 4 cited

MapperGPT: Large Language Models for Linking and Mapping Entities

Nicolas Matentzoglu, J. Harry Caufield, Harshad B. Hegde +6

Aligning terminological resources, including ontologies, controlled vocabularies, taxonomies, and value sets is a critical part of data integration in many domains such as healthca…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

An evaluation of GPT models for phenotype concept recognition

Tudor Groza, Harry Caufield, Dylan Gration +5

Objective: Clinical deep phenotyping and phenotype annotation play a critical role in both the diagnosis of patients with rare disorders as well as in building computationally-trac…

cs.AI2023★ 113 cited

Structured prompt interrogation and recursive extraction of semantics (SPIRES): A method for populating knowledge bases using zero-shot learning

J. Harry Caufield, Harshad Hegde, Vincent Emonet +9

Creating knowledge bases and ontologies is a time consuming task that relies on a manual curation. AI/NLP approaches can assist expert curators in populating these knowledge bases,…

q-bio.QM2023

KG-Hub -- Building and Exchanging Biological Knowledge Graphs

J Harry Caufield, Tim Putman, Kevin Schaper +23

Knowledge graphs (KGs) are a powerful approach for integrating heterogeneous data and making inferences in biology and many other domains, but a coherent solution for constructing,…

cs.LG2022★ 8 cited

Analyzing historical diagnosis code data from NIH N3C and RECOVER Programs using deep learning to determine risk factors for Long Covid

Saurav Sengupta, Johanna Loomba, Suchetha Sharma +5

Post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC) or Long COVID is an emerging medical condition that has been observed in several patients with a positive diagnosis for COVID-19.…

cs.DB2022★ 1 cited

Ontologizing Health Systems Data at Scale: Making Translational Discovery a Reality

Tiffany J. Callahan, Adrianne L. Stefanski, Jordan M. Wyrwa +29

Background: Common data models solve many challenges of standardizing electronic health record (EHR) data, but are unable to semantically integrate all the resources needed for dee…

cs.DB2022★ 72 cited

Ontology Development Kit: a toolkit for building, maintaining, and standardising biomedical ontologies

Nicolas Matentzoglu, Damien Goutte-Gattat, Shawn Zheng Kai Tan +24

Similar to managing software packages, managing the ontology life cycle involves multiple complex workflows such as preparing releases, continuous quality control checking, and dep…

cs.AI2022★ 1 cited

A method for comparing multiple imputation techniques: a case study on the U.S. National COVID Cohort Collaborative

Elena Casiraghi, Rachel Wong, Margaret Hall +34

Healthcare datasets obtained from Electronic Health Records have proven to be extremely useful to assess associations between patients' predictors and outcomes of interest. However…

cs.DB2022★ 109 cited

Biolink Model: A Universal Schema for Knowledge Graphs in Clinical, Biomedical, and Translational Science

Deepak R. Unni, Sierra A. T. Moxon, Michael Bada +21

Within clinical, biomedical, and translational science, an increasing number of projects are adopting graphs for knowledge representation. Graph-based data models elucidate the int…

q-bio.OT2021★ 8 cited

Beyond Low Earth Orbit: Biomonitoring, Artificial Intelligence, and Precision Space Health

Ryan T. Scott, Erik L. Antonsen, Lauren M. Sanders +53

Human space exploration beyond low Earth orbit will involve missions of significant distance and duration. To effectively mitigate myriad space health hazards, paradigm shifts in d…

cs.DB2021★ 94 cited

A Simple Standard for Sharing Ontological Mappings (SSSOM)

Nicolas Matentzoglu, James P. Balhoff, Susan M. Bello +41

Despite progress in the development of standards for describing and exchanging scientific information, the lack of easy-to-use standards for mapping between different representatio…

cs.CL2021★ 1 cited

An Open Natural Language Processing Development Framework for EHR-based Clinical Research: A case demonstration using the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C)

Sijia Liu, Andrew Wen, Liwei Wang +28

While we pay attention to the latest advances in clinical natural language processing (NLP), we can notice some resistance in the clinical and translational research community to a…