BioVAE
BioVAE provides a large-scale pre-trained latent variable language model for biomedical text mining, integrating pre-trained language models with deep generative modeling to model and generate biomedical literature.
Key Features:
- Domain-Specific Training: Trained on extensive volumes of biomedical literature using the OPTIMUS framework to capture biomedical text nuances.
- Latent Variable Model: Implements a latent variable language model that uses deep generative models to model complex data distributions in biomedical text.
- State-of-the-Art Performance: Demonstrates superior performance on multiple biomedical text mining benchmarks compared to other publicly available biomedical PLMs.
- Sentence Generation: Generates biomedical sentences with higher accuracy than the original outputs from the OPTIMUS framework.
Scientific Applications:
- Biomedical Literature Mining: Extracting relevant information and patterns from large collections of biomedical publications.
- Data Annotation and Curation: Assisting annotation and curation of biomedical datasets by producing contextually accurate text.
- Drug Discovery and Development: Supporting data analysis and text-generation tasks relevant to drug discovery and development research.
Methodology:
Trained via the OPTIMUS framework, integrating pre-trained language models (PLMs) with deep generative latent variable modeling on biomedical literature.
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Details
- License:
- Apache-2.0
- Cost:
- Free of charge
- Tool Type:
- command-line tool
- Programming Languages:
- Shell
- Added:
- 3/28/2022
- Last Updated:
- 3/28/2022
Operations
Publications
Trieu H, Miwa M, Ananiadou S. BioVAE: a pre-trained latent variable language model for biomedical text mining. Bioinformatics. 2021;38(3):872-874. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btab702. PMID:34636886. PMCID:PMC8756089.
PMID: 34636886
PMCID: PMC8756089
Funding: - New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization: JPNP20006
- Alan Turing Institute and BBSRC: BB/P025684/1
Links
Issue tracker
https://github.com/aistairc/BioVAE/issues