GENIUS-LLM: An evidence-traceable, gene-centered multi-omics inference framework for plant gene function analysis

Beizhuo Li, Jiaqi You, Jie Zheng, Xianda Zheng, Xianlong Zhang, Maojun Wang, Zeyu Zhang · 2026

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Beizhuo Li and colleagues built GENIUS-LLM, a framework that turns plant multi-omics data into traceable gene-function hypotheses. Gene-function analysis guides crop breeding, but integrating scattered omics datasets is labour-intensive, deep-learning predictions are opaque, and database queries demand exact identifiers. Their 2026 letter describes a language-model workflow that organises seven categories of gene-centred evidence across cotton, rice, and Arabidopsis into auditable reports.

For each queried gene, the system retrieves records, rewrites them as standardised natural-language blocks, and reasons through a fixed scaffold in GPT-4o, weighting direct functional cues above expression and co-expression evidence. The authors present traceable reasoning, not just prediction, as the advance, lowering the barrier to usable biological insight for breeders and researchers.

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CREATORBeizhuo Li, Jiaqi You, Jie Zheng, Xianda Zheng, Xianlong Zhang, Maojun Wang, Zeyu Zhang
YEAR2026
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE13 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC13589542

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