A natural language processing approach to support biomedical data harmonization: Leveraging large language models

• Zexu Li,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Suraj P. Prabhu,

  Roles Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics, Boston University Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0009-0009-9065-8239

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• Zachary T. Popp,

  Roles Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0009-0001-7935-5300

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• Shubhi S. Jain,

  Roles Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Slone Epidemiology Center, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Vijetha Balakundi,

  Roles Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine/Section of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0009-0003-5631-3006

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• Ting Fang Alvin Ang,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Slone Epidemiology Center, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Framingham Heart Study, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4687-2552

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• Rhoda Au,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Slone Epidemiology Center, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Framingham Heart Study, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Neurology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine/Section of Genetics, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7742-4491

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• Jinying Chen

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jinychen@bu.edu

  Affiliations Department of Medicine/Section of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Data Science Core, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7259-4301

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