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Viral Diseases Explorer: a webtool to identify viral disease information derived from multiple LLMs

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: MOTIVATION: With nearly 266,500 viruses cataloged currently at NCBI and increasing by the day, identifying the diseases they cause, and the affected hosts remains challenging. Hence the motivation for undertaking this study. RESULTS: Utilizing the AI-powered tools, we obtained disease information for 165 363 viruses, identifying 2833 unique diseases affecting 5503 distinct hosts and designated consensus diseases confirmed by three LLMs. Using this information, we developed the Viral Diseases Explorer webtool that enables the searches of diseases linked to specific viruses, viruses causing particular diseases, and viruses infecting specific hosts. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: Viral Diseases Explorer tool can be accessed from the URL: https://virus-world.org/viral_diseases_explorer.php.

Source: Bioinformatics

DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btaf613

Authors: Oscar Rojas Labra, Carla M Martinez-Garcia, Nelly Santoyo-Rivera, Daniel Montiel-Garcia, Vijay S Reddy

Institutions: University of Minnesota, Instituto Tecnológico Superior de Irapuato, Tecnológico Nacional de México, Scripps Research Institute

Language: English

Topic: Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies

Subfield: Molecular Biology

Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Domain: Life Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $3,989