Summary of Genotex: a Benchmark For Evaluating Llm-based Exploration Of Gene Expression Data in Alignment with Bioinformaticians, by Haoyang Liu et al.
GenoTEX: A Benchmark for Evaluating LLM-Based Exploration of Gene Expression Data in Alignment with Bioinformaticians
by Haoyang Liu, Haohan Wang
First submitted to arxiv on: 21 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Genomics (q-bio.GN)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper introduces GenoTEX, a benchmark dataset for automatically exploring gene expression data. The goal is to identify disease-associated genes from large datasets, but current methods require extensive expertise and manual effort, limiting scalability. Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents have shown promise in automating these tasks. To support evaluation and development of such methods, GenoTEX provides annotated code and results for solving gene identification problems. The dataset includes tasks of dataset selection, preprocessing, and statistical analysis, with annotations curated by human bioinformaticians. GenoAgents, a team of LLM-based agents, are also presented as baselines for these tasks. Experimental results demonstrate the potential of LLM-based approaches in genomics data analysis, while error analysis highlights challenges and areas for future improvement. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper makes it easier to find genes linked to diseases by creating a special dataset called GenoTEX. This dataset helps computers learn how to automatically identify these genes from lots of data. Usually, this process takes a lot of expertise and manual work, but some computer programs called LLM-based agents can do it better. The researchers created a team of these agents called GenoAgents to help with the task. They tested their agents on GenoTEX and showed that they can be helpful for finding genes linked to diseases. But they also found some areas where the agents could improve. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Large language model
