OpenBioLink

OpenBioLink provides a large-scale benchmark for evaluating link prediction models in heterogeneous biomedical knowledge graphs to assess methods for predicting undiscovered biomedical associations.


Key Features:

  • Benchmark datasets: Provides comprehensive, large-scale datasets curated as high-quality benchmarks for link prediction in biomedical graphs.
  • Heterogeneous graph support: Evaluates models on heterogeneous biomedical graph data representing multiple entity and relation types.
  • Baseline evaluations: Includes preliminary baseline evaluation results that serve as reference points for algorithm comparison.
  • Custom dataset generation tools: Supplies tools for creating custom benchmark datasets to accommodate specific research scenarios.
  • Transparent and reproducible evaluation: Enables systematic and reproducible assessment of machine-learning algorithms for biomedical link prediction.

Scientific Applications:

  • Benchmarking link prediction models: Systematic comparison of link prediction algorithms on standardized biomedical knowledge networks.
  • Assessing algorithmic advancements: Quantitative evaluation of new machine-learning methods for predicting undiscovered biomedical links.
  • Predictive modeling for knowledge discovery: Supporting development and validation of models aimed at uncovering novel associations in biomedical data.

Methodology:

The framework presents preliminary baseline evaluation results as reference points for comparing new link prediction algorithms.

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Details

License:
MIT
Tool Type:
command-line tool
Programming Languages:
Python
Added:
1/18/2021
Last Updated:
3/15/2021

Operations

Publications

Breit A, Ott S, Agibetov A, Samwald M. OpenBioLink: a benchmarking framework for large-scale biomedical link prediction. Bioinformatics. 2020;36(13):4097-4098. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa274. PMID:32339214.

PMID: 32339214
Funding: - European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and Innovation program: 668353