The article proposes a framework called quantitative evidence mining to transform biomedical findings into structured, context-rich evidence units. It outlines core elements such as claim, measured entity, value, comparator, population, conditions, temporal context, uncertainty, provenance, validation, and expert review. The authors present an eight-stage reference architecture and emphasize that plausibility should remain multidimensional rather than collapsed into a single truth label, linking extraction to evidence synthesis for applications like clinical trials, biomarker research, and knowledge-graph construction.
By Negin Sadat Babaiha, Stefan Geissler, Marie-Christine Simon, Martin Hofmann-Apitius, Marc Jacobs
arXiv:2608.03154v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Biomedical relation extraction (BioRE) supports knowledge graph construction and hypothesis generation. In real-world settings, most candidate enti...
By Shufan Ming, Yikun Han, Gibong Hong, Rui Zhang, Halil Kilicoglu
OptimusKG is a multimodal biomedical labeled property graph that integrates structured and semi‑structured resources to preserve detailed, type‑specific metadata across molecular, anatomical, clinical, and environmental domains. The graph contains nearly 191,000 nodes, over 21.8 million edges, and more than 67 million property instances derived from 18 ontologies, with a top‑level schema that enforces node and edge constraints while retaining granular provenance. Validation using the PaperQA3 agent found that 70.0% of sampled edges are supported by literature evidence, and the graph offers a standardized resource for machine learning, knowledge‑grounded retrieval, and hypothesis generation in biomedical research.
By Lucas Vittor, Ayush Noori, I\~naki Arango, Joaqu\'in Polonuer, Sam Rodriques, Andrew White, David A. Clifton, Marinka Zitnik
LingShu is a large-scale, symptom‑centric knowledge graph that bridges Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and modern biomedicine. It contains 17.33 million entity records and 39.47 million relation records, combining 17.19 million semantic triples with 22.29 million contextualized quadruples to encode conditional medical associations. The graph integrates data from electronic medical records, TCM texts, biomedical ontologies, and curated knowledge bases, and is supported by a web platform offering visualization, reasoning, and evidence‑grounded question answering.
By Rui Hua, Zixin Shu, Kai Chang, Dengying Yan, Jianan Xia, Hui Zhu, Shujie Song, Shurui Yang, Tongxin Wang, Yue Yin, Yu Wei, Lijuan Pei, Yunhui Hu, Hao Xu, Mingzhong Xiao, Xiaodong Li, Haibin Yu, Runshun Zhang, Wenjia Wang, Baoyan Liu, Xuezhong Zhou
arXiv:2607. 22592v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Graph-based retrieval-augmented generation (GraphRAG) grounds answers in structured knowledge, but current systems extract entities and relationships exhaustively, producing graphs whose size and construction cost scale with corpus length rather than with the reasoning a query requires.
By Marc Saouda (Boston Consulting Group), Rajprakash Bale (Boston Consulting Group), Eren Aldis (Boston Consulting Group), Cloves Almeida (Boston Consulting Group)
The paper introduces ReSemReason, a framework for biomedical multi-hop question answering that addresses the reachable-but-invalid problem—where correct answers are retrieved but lack valid evidential support. ReSemReason aligns question-induced relation schemas with graph search and employs relation-conditioned attention and uncertainty-weighted priors to improve both answer ranking and evidence quality. Experiments on BioHopR, PrimeKGQA, and MedReason demonstrate enhanced answer-set quality and provide analyses distinguishing endpoint correctness from evidential support.
By Ziyang Ling, Ziyi Chen, Ronald X. Xu, Mingzhai Sun