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ArticleBriefings in bioinformatics2025

BioRAGent: natural language biomedical querying with retrieval-augmented multiagent systems.

Manlian Bi, Zhijie Bao, Dongna Xie, Xiaohan Xie, Changxiao Yang, Tao Wang, Yongtian Wang, Jiajie Peng

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Article in Briefings in bioinformatics, 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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  3. MedHopper: an agentic RAG-LLM system for multi-hop biomedical QA.Database : the journal of biological databases and curation · 2026
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8 authors.

Manlian BiAI for Science Interdisciplinary Research Center, School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, No. 1 Dongxiang Road, Xi'an 710129, China.
Zhijie BaoAI for Science Interdisciplinary Research Center, School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, No. 1 Dongxiang Road, Xi'an 710129, China.
Dongna XieAI for Science Interdisciplinary Research Center, School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, No. 1 Dongxiang Road, Xi'an 710129, China.
Xiaohan XieAI for Science Interdisciplinary Research Center, School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, No. 1 Dongxiang Road, Xi'an 710129, China.
Changxiao YangAI for Science Interdisciplinary Research Center, School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, No. 1 Dongxiang Road, Xi'an 710129, China.
Tao WangAI for Science Interdisciplinary Research Center, School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, No. 1 Dongxiang Road, Xi'an 710129, China.
Yongtian WangAI for Science Interdisciplinary Research Center, School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, No. 1 Dongxiang Road, Xi'an 710129, China.
Jiajie PengAI for Science Interdisciplinary Research Center, School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, No. 1 Dongxiang Road, Xi'an 710129, China.

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China 62072376National Natural Science Foundation of China 92370106
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Understanding the roles of genes, phenotypes, and diseases is crucial for advancing biomedical research. However, efficient and accessible retrieval of biomedical knowledge remains a challenge due to the complexity of the relevant data. We introduce BioRAGent, an intelligent biomedical assistant that combines Tool-augmented retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) with a multiagent system. Leveraging the ability of large language models, BioRAGent facilitates natural language queries about genes, phenotypes, diseases, and their interrelationships. BioRAGent employs three specialized agents: Guide (query optimization), Retriever (data retrieval), and Reviewer (answer validation) to access authoritative biomedical databases and to generate accurate responses. We evaluate the performance of BioRAGent on a benchmark of eleven single-hop and three multi-hop tasks, demonstrating superior results compared with state-of-the-art models. User evaluations highlight the practicality and robust user experience of BioRAGent, particularly in handling complex multi-hop queries. Moreover, ablation experiments validate the contribution of each agent in improving retrieval accuracy.

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Computational BiologyInformation Storage and RetrievalNatural Language ProcessingSoftwareAlgorithmsDatabases, FactualHumansbiomedical knowledge retrievallarge language modelsmultiagent systemretrieval-augmented generation

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PMID41081729
PMCPMC12516949

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