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From data deluge to publomics: How AI can transform animal research

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To the Editor — The animal research community is drowning in a sea of publications. Artificial intelligence (AI) could be the lifeboat needed to stay afloat by fostering a “publomics” approach similar to the ‘omics’ approaches used in proteomics and genomics, which are known for producing vast oceans of data.

Countries such as India and China have an increasingly important role on the global scientific stage. In animal research, China will soon surpass the United States in the volume of scientific output (Fig. 1)3,4, as China showed no signs of the stagnation in publication in the initial stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, which was observed in many other countries.

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Fig. 1: The number of newly released publications in animal research is skyrocketing.

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We thank George Enescu for the help with data analysis. This work was supported by grants of the Swiss National Science Foundation (No. P400PM_183884, to BVI), the UZH Alumni (to BVI), the UZH Digital Entrepreneur Fellowship (to BVI). We thank all our funders for their support.

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  3. Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, Edinburgh Medical School, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

    Malcolm R. Macleod

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Ineichen, B.V., Rosso, M. & Macleod, M.R. From data deluge to publomics: How AI can transform animal research. Lab Anim 52, 213–214 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41684-023-01256-4

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