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ArticleJournal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA2025

Deciphering genomic codes using advanced natural language processing techniques: a scoping review.

Shuyan Cheng, Yishu Wei, Yiliang Zhou, Zihan Xu, Drew N Wright, Jinze Liu, Yifan Peng

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Article in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Advancing the application and evaluation of large language models in health and biomedicine.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Shuyan ChengDepartment of Population Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, United States.
Yishu WeiDepartment of Population Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, United States.
Yiliang ZhouDepartment of Population Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, United States.
Zihan XuDepartment of Population Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, United States.
Drew N WrightSamuel J. Wood Library & C.V. Starr Biomedical Information Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-1776-5427
Jinze LiuSchool of Public Health, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23219, United States.
Yifan PengDepartment of Population Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-9309-8331

Funding

ClinEX - Clinical Evidence Extraction, Representation, and AppraisalR01LM014344 · NLM · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI Yong Chen, Yifan Peng · 2023 to 2026
$2.7M
Closing the loop with an automatic referral population and summarization systemR01LM014306 · NLM · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI Yifan Peng, Justin Frederick Rousseau · 2023 to 2026
$2.7M
Extraction and summarization of evidence-based medicineR01LM014573 · NLM · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI Yifan Peng, CHUNHUA WENG · 2024 to 2026
$1.1M
NLM NIH HHS R01 LM014306NLM NIH HHS R01LM014306NLM NIH HHS R01 LM014344NLM NIH HHS R01 LM014573
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesThe vast and complex nature of human genomic sequencing data presents challenges for effective analysis. This review aims to investigate the application of natural language processing (NLP) techniques, particularly large language models (LLMs) and transformer architectures, in deciphering genomic codes, focusing on tokenization, transformer models, and regulatory annotation prediction. The goal of this review is to assess data and model accessibility in the most recent literature, gaining a better understanding of the existing capabilities and constraints of these tools in processing genomic sequencing data. MATERIALS AND

methodsFollowing Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines, our scoping review was conducted across PubMed, Medline, Scopus, Web of Science, Embase, and ACM Digital Library. Studies were included if they focused on NLP methodologies applied to genomic sequencing data analysis, without restrictions on publication date or article type.

resultsA total of 26 studies published between 2021 and April 2024 were selected for review. The review highlights that tokenization and transformer models enhance the processing and understanding of genomic data, with applications in predicting regulatory annotations like transcription-factor binding sites and chromatin accessibility. DISCUSSION: The application of NLP and LLMs to genomic sequencing data interpretation is a promising field that can help streamline the processing of large-scale genomic data while also providing a better understanding of its complex structures. It has the potential to drive advancements in personalized medicine by offering more efficient and scalable solutions for genomic analysis. Further research is also needed to discuss and overcome current limitations, enhancing model transparency and applicability.

conclusionThis review highlights the growing role of NLP, particularly LLMs, in genomic sequencing data analysis. While these models improve data processing and regulatory annotation prediction, challenges remain in accessibility and interpretability. Further research is needed to refine their application in genomics.

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Genetic CodeGenomicsNatural Language ProcessingHumansgenomic sequencing datalarge language modelsnatural language processingregulatory annotations

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PMID39998912
PMCPMC12005631

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