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ArticleScientific reports2025

The influence of prompt engineering on large language models for protein-protein interaction identification in biomedical literature.

Yung-Chun Chang, Ming-Siang Huang, Yi-Hsuan Huang, Yi-Hsuan Lin

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Yung-Chun ChangGraduate Institute of Data Science, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan. changyc@tmu.edu.tw.
Ming-Siang HuangGraduate Institute of Data Science, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Yi-Hsuan HuangGraduate Institute of Data Science, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Yi-Hsuan LinGraduate Institute of Data Science, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan.

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National Health Research Institutes NHRI-12A1-PHCO-1823244National Science and Technology Council NSTC 113-2221-E-038-019-MY3
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Identifying protein-protein interactions (PPIs) is a foundational task in biomedical natural language processing. While specialized models have been developed, the potential of general-domain large language models (LLMs) in PPI extraction, particularly for researchers without computational expertise, remains unexplored. This study evaluates the effectiveness of proprietary LLMs (GPT-3.5, GPT-4, and Google Gemini) in PPI prediction through systematic prompt engineering. We designed six prompting scenarios of increasing complexity, from basic interaction queries to sophisticated entity-tagged formats, and assessed model performance across multiple benchmark datasets (LLL, IEPA, HPRD50, AIMed, BioInfer, and PEDD). Carefully designed prompts effectively guided LLMs in PPI prediction. Gemini 1.5 Pro achieved the highest performance across most datasets, with notable F

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Computational BiologyNatural Language ProcessingProtein Interaction MappingData MiningHumansLarge Language ModelsLarge language modelNatural language processingProtein–protein interactionRelation extraction

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PMID40319086
PMCPMC12049485

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