Medical Xpress July 25, 2024
In a systematic review published in Quantitative Biology, researchers from West Virginia University (WVU) and their collaborators critically examined the transformative impact of ChatGPT in the fields of bioinformatics and biomedical informatics. The study offers a comprehensive overview of ChatGPT’s applications in key areas such as omics, biomedical text mining, drug discovery, image analysis, coding, and bioinformatics education.
“2023 marks the first year for the bioinformatics and biomedical informatics community to explore the potential of ChatGPT in advancing the field,” said Gangqing “Michael” Hu, an assistant professor at WVU. “Significant efforts have been made to evaluate ChatGPT’s competency in completing common bioinformatics tasks.”
ChatGPT has shown impressive capabilities in tasks related to knowledge-mining and text-generation, such as cell type annotation,...