Multilingual translation for zero-shot biomedical classification using BioTranslator.

ABSTRACT: Existing annotation paradigms rely on controlled vocabularies, where each data instance is classified into one term from a predefined set of controlled vocabularies. This paradigm restricts the analysis to concepts that are known and well-characterized. Here, we present the novel multilingual translation method BioTranslator to address this problem. BioTranslator takes a user-written textual description of a new concept and then translates this description to a non-text biological data instance. The key idea of BioTranslator is to develop a multilingual translation framework, where multiple modalities of biological data are all translated to text. We demonstrate how BioTranslator enables the identification of novel cell types using only a textual description and how BioTranslator can be fu

SUBMITTER: Xu H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9911740 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature