Zero-shot NER for cancer genetics in English biomedical text
What it does
This model performs zero-shot named-entity recognition on English biomedical text, identifying 16 entity types such as Cancer, Gene or gene product, and Cell. It is built on the GLiNER architecture with 209M parameters and reports an F1 score of 0.75 on the BioNLP 2013 Cancer Genetics test set.
Best for
- Cancer pathway curation from literature
- Driver gene analysis in tumor biology
- Precision oncology literature mining
What it detects (16 labels)
Trained on the label below; you can pass any other label names at inference time.
- Amino acid
- Anatomical system
- Cancer
- Cell
- Cellular component
- Developing anatomical structure
- Gene or gene product
- Immaterial anatomical entity
- Multi-tissue structure
- Organ
- Organism
- Organism subdivision
- Organism substance
- Pathological formation
- Simple chemical
- Tissue
Quality
| Benchmark | BioNLP 2013 Cancer Genetics · all models on this benchmark |
|---|---|
| F1 | 0.750 |
| Precision | 0.748 |
| Recall | 0.752 |
| Accuracy | 0.924 |
| Source | Reported by the authors (test_results.json in the repository) |
Cancer Genetics - Cancer-related genetic entities
Use it
pip install gliner
from gliner import GLiNER
model = GLiNER.from_pretrained("OpenMed/OpenMed-ZeroShot-NER-Oncology-Multi-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-Oncology-Multi-209M", config=OpenMedConfig(backend="mlx"))
for e in result.entities:
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