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OpenMed-ZeroShot-NER-DNA-Medium-209M

Finds genes, proteins, and cells in English biomedical text

Zero-shot NER (your own labels)Genes, proteins and cellsEnglishMedium · 209Mapache-2.0

What it does

This model detects DNA, RNA, cell lines, cell types, and proteins in English biomedical research text, with entity labels supplied by the user at inference time. It reports an F1 score of 0.821 on the JNLPBA benchmark, as reported by the author.

Best for

  • Pathway curation from research articles
  • Molecular interaction mining in literature
  • Custom entity detection in biomedical text

What it detects (5 labels)

Trained on the label below; you can pass any other label names at inference time.

  • DNA
  • RNA
  • Cell line
  • Cell tyle
  • Protein

Quality

Benchmark JNLPBA · all models on this benchmark
F10.821
Precision0.775
Recall0.872
Accuracy0.950
SourceReported by the authors (test_results.json in the repository)

Biomedical Entity Recognition - Proteins, DNA, RNA, cell lines, and cell types

Use it

pip install gliner

from gliner import GLiNER
model = GLiNER.from_pretrained("OpenMed/OpenMed-ZeroShot-NER-DNA-Medium-209M")
print(model.predict_entities("Patient with type 2 diabetes and hypertension.", ["disease"]))
Apple Silicon (MLX) build
pip install "openmed[mlx]"

from openmed import analyze_text
from openmed.core.config import OpenMedConfig
result = analyze_text("Patient started imatinib in March.", model_name="OpenMed/OpenMed-ZeroShot-NER-DNA-Medium-209M", config=OpenMedConfig(backend="mlx"))
for e in result.entities:
    print(e.label, e.text)

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