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ArticleAnnals of biomedical engineering2024

Code Interpreter for Bioinformatics: Are We There Yet?

Lei Wang, Xijin Ge, Li Liu, Gangqing Hu

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Article in Annals of biomedical engineering, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 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

17 citing papers in PubMed.

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  8. The transformative impact of large language models on medical writing and publishing: current applications, challenges and future directions.The Korean journal of physiology & pharmacology : official journal of the Korean Physiological Society and the Korean Society of Pharmacology · 2024
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  10. Data science through natural language with ChatGPT's Code Interpreter.Translational and clinical pharmacology · 2024
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  11. Special Issue "Bioinformatics of Unusual DNA and RNA Structures".International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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  12. On the Responsible Use of Chatbots in Bioinformatics.Genomics, proteomics & bioinformatics · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Lei WangDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology & Cell Biology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, 26506, USA.
Xijin GeDepartment of Mathematics and Statistics, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, 57007, USA.
Li LiuCollege of Health Solutions, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ, 85004, USA.
Gangqing HuDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology & Cell Biology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, 26506, USA. michael.hu@hsc.wvu.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5453-6888

Funding

West Virginia IDEA-CTRU54GM104942 · NIGMS · WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY · PI Laura F. Gibson · 2012 to 2026
$81.0M
WV INBRE: The Inhibitor of Growth Family Member 4 (ING4) inhibits L-Type Amino Acid Transporter 1 (LAT1) expression to suppress Breast CancerP20GM103434 · NIGMS · MARSHALL UNIVERSITY · PI GARY O RANKIN · 2012 to 2026
$61.1M
WVU Flow Cytometry and Single Cell Core Facility (FCSCCF)P20GM121322 · NIGMS · WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY · PI Karen H Martin · 2018 to 2026
$22.4M
Transcriptome & Networks Analysis CoreP20GM135008 · NIGMS · SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY · PI Adam David Hoppe · 2022 to 2026
$13.5M
Discover and Analyze Germline-Somatic Interactions in CancerR01LM013438 · NLM · ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY-TEMPE CAMPUS · PI LIU, LI, YANG, PING · 2021 to 2023
$1.0M
An interactive tool for in-depth and reproducible analysis of RNA-seq dataR01HG010805 · NHGRI · SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY · PI GE, XIJIN · 2020 to 2023
$869k
DNA SEQUENCE FOR LIGHT-REGULATED EXPRESSIONF32GM010805 · NIGMS · ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY · PI LAM, ERIC · 1985 to 1988
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Code Interpreter feature in ChatGPT has the potential to democratize data analysis for non-specialists. As bioinformaticians, we are impressed by its performance in data manipulation and visualization. However, bioinformatics tasks often require execution of third-party packages, access to annotation knowledgebase, and handling large datasets. Code Interpreter's exclusive support for Python, no installation option for additional packages, inability to utilize external resources, and limited storage capacity could pose obstacles to its wide adoption in bioinformatics applications. To address these limitations, we advocated for the necessity of locally deployable, API-based systems for chatbot-aided bioinformatics applications.

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Computational BiologySoftwareBioinformaticsChatGPTCode interpreter

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