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TheBioCollection: Unified Pre-Training Scale LLM Corpus for Biology

Hyunjin Seo, Hyeon Hwang, Gyubok Lee, Jay Shin, Jimin Park, Taesoo Kim, Sanghoon Lee, Hongjoon Ahn, Sungjun Han, Sangwon Jung

Featured July 16, 2026

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Simply

Scientists built a giant, organized library of biological information, including molecules, proteins, and DNA, and added special computer-calculated facts, teaching AI models to understand and reason about biology much better than before.

In depth
The paper introduces THE BIO COLLECTION, a large-scale pre-training corpus (52.6B tokens) for biological large language models (BioLMs). It unifies disparate biological data (molecules, proteins, genomics, cells, pathways) into a language-model-ready format. A key innovation is enriching records with tool-computed biological properties and constructing novel instruction tasks for capabilities underrepresented in existing corpora, significantly enhancing BioLM performance across diverse biological domains.

Key Takeaways

  • 1
    THE BIO COLLECTION unifies heterogeneous biological data (molecules, proteins, genomics, cells, pathways) into a single, LLM-ready corpus of 52.6B tokens.
  • 2
    The corpus enriches data with tool-computed biological properties and novel instruction tasks, enabling BioLMs to understand complex biological relationships.
  • 3
    Training on this corpus more than doubles the performance of a fixed LLM architecture on a matched evaluation suite (THE BIO COLLECTION-EVAL), demonstrating substantial gains in biological reasoning while preserving general linguistic ability.

Conceptual Flow

HIGH LEVEL
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Methodology: Building the Biology Knowledge Base

The scientists gathered all kinds of messy biology data, cleaned it up, added extra computer-calculated facts, and turned it into easy-to-understand instructions for an AI brain.

Scattered Biology Data
Clean, Enrich, Instruct
AI-Ready Biology Knowledge
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Results: AI Learns Advanced Biology

By using this new, smart biology library, the AI brain became much better at solving biology puzzles, more than doubling its score, without forgetting how to understand regular language.

AI with Basic Training
Learn from New Biology Data
AI with Advanced Biology Skills