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ArticleFrontiers in bioinformatics2025

Multimodal knowledge expansion widget powered by plant protein phosphorylation database and ChatGPT.

Chunhui Xu, Yang Yu, Govardhan Khadakkar, Jiacheng Xie, Dong Xu, Qiuming Yao

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Article in Frontiers in bioinformatics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Chunhui XuBond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO, United States.
Yang YuBond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO, United States.
Govardhan KhadakkarDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO, United States.
Jiacheng XieBond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO, United States.
Dong XuBond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO, United States.
Qiuming YaoSchool of Computing, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States.

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Abstract

Biological databases are essential for providing curated knowledge, but their rigid data structures and restrictive query formats often limit flexible and exploratory user interactions. In the field of plant phosphorylation, manually curated and reviewed data represent only a small portion of the available knowledge, and users often seek information that goes beyond what is provided in structured databases. While large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT-4o possess extensive contextual knowledge, integrating this capability into bioinformatics tools remains an open challenge. Here, we present a multimodal question-answering widget that integrates ChatGPT-4o with our Plant Protein Phosphorylation Database (P3DB). This system supports natural language queries and dynamic prompt formulation, enabling users to explore phosphorylation events, kinase-substrate relationships, and protein-protein interactions through a global entry. In another application, the widget leverages ChatGPT's image interpretation functionality to extract regulatory pathways and phosphorylation markers from complex scientific figures. To build this widget effectively, we have explored multiple prompt strategies, including one-step, two-step, few-shot, and image-cropping techniques, demonstrating their impact on output accuracy and consistency. In addition, recent multimodal LLMs such as ChatGPT-5 and Gemini 1.5 have demonstrated comparable capabilities and adaptability when applied to our test cases and the developed widgets. Together, our application widget and results highlight the development of the ChatGPT-P3DB integration as a system that enhances user accessibility, enables visual extraction, and extends the current utility of biological knowledgebases through a flexible and adaptive framework. Our "ChatGPT-P3DB" is open-source and can be accessed on GitHub (https://github.com/yao-laboratory/p3db-chat). The frontend interface, "P3DB askAI" web module, can be accessed freely through https://www.p3db.org/ask-ai.

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information retrievalarge language modemultimodalitypathway identificationplant protein phosphorylation

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