CurateGPT: A flexible language-model assisted biocuration tool

TL;DR

CurateGPT is a novel AI-assisted biocuration tool that combines generative language models with knowledge bases to improve the efficiency, accuracy, and scalability of biomedical data curation workflows.

Contribution

It introduces a flexible agent-based system that integrates LLMs with external sources, enhancing biocuration processes beyond traditional methods.

Findings

Increases curation efficiency and accuracy.

Provides direct links to supporting data.

Enables scaling of curation efforts.

Abstract

Effective data-driven biomedical discovery requires data curation: a time-consuming process of finding, organizing, distilling, integrating, interpreting, annotating, and validating diverse information into a structured form suitable for databases and knowledge bases. Accurate and efficient curation of these digital assets is critical to ensuring that they are FAIR, trustworthy, and sustainable. Unfortunately, expert curators face significant time and resource constraints. The rapid pace of new information being published daily is exceeding their capacity for curation. Generative AI, exemplified by instruction-tuned large language models (LLMs), has opened up new possibilities for assisting human-driven curation. The design philosophy of agents combines the emerging abilities of generative AI with more precise methods. A curator's tasks can be aided by agents for performing reasoning, searching ontologies, and integrating knowledge across external sources, all efforts otherwise requiring extensive manual effort. Our LLM-driven annotation tool, CurateGPT, melds the power of generative AI together with trusted knowledge bases and literature sources. CurateGPT streamlines the curation process, enhancing collaboration and efficiency in common workflows. Compared to direct interaction with an LLM, CurateGPT's agents enable access to information beyond that in the LLM's training data and they provide direct links to the data supporting each claim. This helps curators, researchers, and engineers scale up curation efforts to keep pace with the ever-increasing volume of scientific data.