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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2026

BioMedGraphica: an all-in-one platform for joint textual biomedical prior knowledge and numeric graph generation.

Heming Zhang, Shunning Liang, Tim Xu, Wenyu Li, Di Huang, Yuhan Dong, Guangfu Li, Philip Miller, Peter Goedegebuure, Marco Sardiello and 9 more

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Article in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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19 authors.

Heming ZhangThe Center for Translational Bioinformatics (CTBI), Institute for Informatics, Data Science and Biostatistics (I2DB), Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-2025-9090
Shunning LiangThe Center for Translational Bioinformatics (CTBI), Institute for Informatics, Data Science and Biostatistics (I2DB), Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, United States.
Tim XuThe Center for Translational Bioinformatics (CTBI), Institute for Informatics, Data Science and Biostatistics (I2DB), Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, United States.
Wenyu LiDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130, United States.
Di HuangThe Center for Translational Bioinformatics (CTBI), Institute for Informatics, Data Science and Biostatistics (I2DB), Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, United States.
Yuhan DongThe Center for Translational Bioinformatics (CTBI), Institute for Informatics, Data Science and Biostatistics (I2DB), Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, United States.
Guangfu LiDepartment of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Connecticut, Farmington, CT 06032, United States.
Philip MillerThe Center for Translational Bioinformatics (CTBI), Institute for Informatics, Data Science and Biostatistics (I2DB), Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, United States.
Peter GoedegebuureDepartment of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, United States.
Marco SardielloDepartment of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, United States.
Jonathan CooperDepartment of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, United States.
William BuchserDepartment of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, United States.
Patricia DicksonDepartment of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-3467-8488
Ryan C FieldsDepartment of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, United States.
Carlos CruchagaDepartment of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-5261-689X
Yixin ChenDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130, United States.
Michael ProvinceNeuroGenomics and Informatics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, United States.
Philip PayneThe Center for Translational Bioinformatics (CTBI), Institute for Informatics, Data Science and Biostatistics (I2DB), Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-9532-2998
Fuhai LiThe Center for Translational Bioinformatics (CTBI), Institute for Informatics, Data Science and Biostatistics (I2DB), Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-3773-146X

Funding

Vaccines and Therapeutic Antibodies to Respiro, Rubula, Peribunya and Phenuiviridae (R2P2)-ReVAMPPU19AI181984 · NIAID · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI MILLER, J. PHILIP · 2024 to 2024
$44.1M
Systems-Level Approach to Neuronopathic Lysosomal Storage DisordersRM1NS132962 · NINDS · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI JONATHAN D COOPER, PATRICIA I DICKSON · 2023 to 2026
$6.3M
AI models of multi-omic data integration for ming longevity core signaling pathwaysR33AG078799 · NIA · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI LI, FUHAI, PROVINCE, MICHAEL A. · 2025 to 2025
$1.5M
Modeling and targeting tumor-immune signaling interactions in tumor microenvironmentR01LM013902 · NLM · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI Fuhai Li · 2023 to 2026
$1.4M
Combine Genomics and Symptoms Data Driven Models to Discover Synergistic Combinatory Therapies for Alzheimer's DiseaseR56AG065352 · NIA · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI LI, FUHAI · 2020 to 2021
$986k
AI models of multi-omic data integration for ming longevity core signaling pathwaysR21AG078799 · NIA · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI LI, FUHAI, PROVINCE, MICHAEL A. · 2023 to 2023
$461k
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases 1U19AI181984NIAID NIH HHS U19 AI181984NIA NIH HHS 1R21AG078799-01A1NIA NIH HHS 4R33AG078799NIA NIH HHS R21 AG078799NIA NIH HHS R33 AG078799NIA NIH HHS R56 AG065352NIA NIH HHS R56AG065352NINDS NIH HHS 1RM1NS132962-01NINDS NIH HHS RM1 NS132962NLM NIH HHS 1R01LM013902-01A1NLM NIH HHS R01 LM013902
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

motivationMultiomics data analysis is essential for scientific discovery in precision medicine. However, translating analysis results of omics data analysis into novel scientific hypotheses remains a significant challenge. Human experts must manually review analysis results and generate new hypotheses based on extensive and interconnected biomedical prior knowledge, which is subjective and not scalable. While large language models can accelerate the discovery, their reasoning improves when grounded in structured, auditable, and comprehensive biomedical prior knowledge. However, biomedical knowledge is scattered across heterogeneous databases that use diverse and inconsistent nomenclature systems, making it difficult to integrate resources into a unified format for scalable analysis. This fragmentation limits the ability of artificial intelligence systems to fully leverage biomedical data for scientific discovery.

resultsWe developed BioMedGraphica, a novel all-in-one platform that harmonizes fragmented biomedical resources by integrating 11 entity types and 30 relation types from 43 databases into a unified textual prior knowledge graph containing 2 306 921 entities and 27 232 091 relations. In addition, we present a novel textual-numeric graph (TNG) data structure concept, where textual information captures prior biological knowledge (e.g. transcription start sites, functions, mechanisms), numeric values represent quantitative biomedical features, and the integrated relations can help uncover mechanisms. By bridging prior knowledge with user-specific data, TNG is a novel and ideal data structure for developing novel graph analysis models. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: The code is available at: https://github.com/FuhaiLiAiLab/BioMedGraphica and BioMedGraphica knowledge graph database can be downloaded from huggingface dataset: https://huggingface.co/datasets/FuhaiLiAiLab/BioMedGraphica.

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PMID42246943
PMCPMC13281933

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