Predicting Anti-microbial Resistance using Large Language Models

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Main Authors: Yoo, Hyunwoo, Sokhansanj, Bahrad, Brown, James R., Rosen, Gail
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Published: 2024
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author Yoo, Hyunwoo
Sokhansanj, Bahrad
Brown, James R.
Rosen, Gail
author_facet Yoo, Hyunwoo
Sokhansanj, Bahrad
Brown, James R.
Rosen, Gail
contents During times of increasing antibiotic resistance and the spread of infectious diseases like COVID-19, it is important to classify genes related to antibiotic resistance. As natural language processing has advanced with transformer-based language models, many language models that learn characteristics of nucleotide sequences have also emerged. These models show good performance in classifying various features of nucleotide sequences. When classifying nucleotide sequences, not only the sequence itself, but also various background knowledge is utilized. In this study, we use not only a nucleotide sequence-based language model but also a text language model based on PubMed articles to reflect more biological background knowledge in the model. We propose a method to fine-tune the nucleotide sequence language model and the text language model based on various databases of antibiotic resistance genes. We also propose an LLM-based augmentation technique to supplement the data and an ensemble method to effectively combine the two models. We also propose a benchmark for evaluating the model. Our method achieved better performance than the nucleotide sequence language model in the drug resistance class prediction.
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spellingShingle Predicting Anti-microbial Resistance using Large Language Models
Yoo, Hyunwoo
Sokhansanj, Bahrad
Brown, James R.
Rosen, Gail
Computation and Language
During times of increasing antibiotic resistance and the spread of infectious diseases like COVID-19, it is important to classify genes related to antibiotic resistance. As natural language processing has advanced with transformer-based language models, many language models that learn characteristics of nucleotide sequences have also emerged. These models show good performance in classifying various features of nucleotide sequences. When classifying nucleotide sequences, not only the sequence itself, but also various background knowledge is utilized. In this study, we use not only a nucleotide sequence-based language model but also a text language model based on PubMed articles to reflect more biological background knowledge in the model. We propose a method to fine-tune the nucleotide sequence language model and the text language model based on various databases of antibiotic resistance genes. We also propose an LLM-based augmentation technique to supplement the data and an ensemble method to effectively combine the two models. We also propose a benchmark for evaluating the model. Our method achieved better performance than the nucleotide sequence language model in the drug resistance class prediction.
title Predicting Anti-microbial Resistance using Large Language Models
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.00642