BioAgents: Democratizing Bioinformatics Analysis with Multi-Agent Systems

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Main Authors: Mehandru, Nikita, Hall, Amanda K., Melnichenko, Olesya, Dubinina, Yulia, Tsirulnikov, Daniel, Bamman, David, Alaa, Ahmed, Saponas, Scott, Malladi, Venkat S.
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author Mehandru, Nikita
Hall, Amanda K.
Melnichenko, Olesya
Dubinina, Yulia
Tsirulnikov, Daniel
Bamman, David
Alaa, Ahmed
Saponas, Scott
Malladi, Venkat S.
author_facet Mehandru, Nikita
Hall, Amanda K.
Melnichenko, Olesya
Dubinina, Yulia
Tsirulnikov, Daniel
Bamman, David
Alaa, Ahmed
Saponas, Scott
Malladi, Venkat S.
contents Creating end-to-end bioinformatics workflows requires diverse domain expertise, which poses challenges for both junior and senior researchers as it demands a deep understanding of both genomics concepts and computational techniques. While large language models (LLMs) provide some assistance, they often fall short in providing the nuanced guidance needed to execute complex bioinformatics tasks, and require expensive computing resources to achieve high performance. We thus propose a multi-agent system built on small language models, fine-tuned on bioinformatics data, and enhanced with retrieval augmented generation (RAG). Our system, BioAgents, enables local operation and personalization using proprietary data. We observe performance comparable to human experts on conceptual genomics tasks, and suggest next steps to enhance code generation capabilities.
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spellingShingle BioAgents: Democratizing Bioinformatics Analysis with Multi-Agent Systems
Mehandru, Nikita
Hall, Amanda K.
Melnichenko, Olesya
Dubinina, Yulia
Tsirulnikov, Daniel
Bamman, David
Alaa, Ahmed
Saponas, Scott
Malladi, Venkat S.
Artificial Intelligence
Multiagent Systems
Creating end-to-end bioinformatics workflows requires diverse domain expertise, which poses challenges for both junior and senior researchers as it demands a deep understanding of both genomics concepts and computational techniques. While large language models (LLMs) provide some assistance, they often fall short in providing the nuanced guidance needed to execute complex bioinformatics tasks, and require expensive computing resources to achieve high performance. We thus propose a multi-agent system built on small language models, fine-tuned on bioinformatics data, and enhanced with retrieval augmented generation (RAG). Our system, BioAgents, enables local operation and personalization using proprietary data. We observe performance comparable to human experts on conceptual genomics tasks, and suggest next steps to enhance code generation capabilities.
title BioAgents: Democratizing Bioinformatics Analysis with Multi-Agent Systems
topic Artificial Intelligence
Multiagent Systems
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.06314