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ArticlePatterns (New York, N.Y.)2026

BDI-Kit: An AI-powered toolkit for biomedical data harmonization.

Roque Lopez, Aécio Santos, Christos Koutras, Juliana Freire

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Article in Patterns (New York, N.Y.), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 authors.

Roque LopezNew York University, New York, NY 11201, USA.
Aécio SantosNew York University, New York, NY 11201, USA.
Christos KoutrasNew York University, New York, NY 11201, USA.
Juliana FreireNew York University, New York, NY 11201, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The wide availability of biomedical data, coupled with advanced analytics, holds unprecedented promise for scientific discovery and improved patient care; yet, heterogeneity across datasets remains a major barrier. Given the inherent diversity of biomedical domains, one-size-fits-all solutions are impractical. Despite decades of active research and numerous methods for automating data integration, there is a scarcity of open-source tools capable of handling this complexity. To address these challenges, we introduce Biomedical Data Integration and Harmonization Toolkit (BDI-Kit), an extensible toolkit designed for human-AI collaboration that provides a diverse suite of harmonization methods. It offers two complementary interfaces: a Python API that supports the creation of computational pipelines for harmonization and an AI-assisted chat interface that enables domain experts to perform harmonization using natural language. In this paper, we describe BDI-Kit and demonstrate its capabilities through real-world use cases. By simplifying data harmonization, BDI-Kit empowers researchers and practitioners, facilitating effective exploration and accelerating scientific discovery and clinical research.

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AI agentsbiomedical datadata harmonizationlarge language modelsopen sourceschema matchingvalue matching

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PMID42005384
PMCPMC13083632

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