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MetaboLLM: a metabolomics-specialized large language model for biochemical knowledge integration and predictive metabolite graph construction

Dohyun Ku, Min Gu Kwak, Francisco J. Pasquel, Jing Li

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Published 2026-08-06 · First seen 2026-08-07

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Metabolomics knowledge is distributed across heterogeneous resources and remains difficult to translate into predictive representations. We developed MetaboLLM, a metabolomics-specialized large language model adapted through continual pretraining, supervised fine-tuning, and structured retrieval, together with MetaboLLM-GIN, which converts generated biochemical descriptions into metabolite graphs for patient-level prediction using a graph isomorphism network. Across four backbone families, MetaboLLM outperformed corresponding base and medically adapted models on metabolomics knowledge, relational, and description tasks, and transferred to an external public benchmark. MetaboLLM-GIN achieved the highest AUC for stress hyperglycemia prediction after coronary artery bypass grafting (0.8616) and postmenopausal hormone-regimen classification (0.8123), outperforming conventional models, alternative graph constructions, and graphs generated from unadapted or non-retrieval LLM configurations. Model interpretation further produced biologically meaningful findings in both applications. These results show that domain-specialized language models can organize heterogeneous biochemical knowledge into predictive and interpretable metabolite graph representations.

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@article{ku2026metabollm,
  title = {MetaboLLM: a metabolomics-specialized large language model for biochemical knowledge integration and predictive metabolite graph construction},
  author = {Dohyun Ku and Min Gu Kwak and Francisco J. Pasquel and Jing Li},
  year = {2026},
  abstract = {Metabolomics knowledge is distributed across heterogeneous resources and remains difficult to translate into predictive representations. We developed MetaboLLM, a metabolomics-specialized large language model adapted through continual pretraining, supervised fine-tuning, and structured retrieval, together with MetaboLLM-GIN, which converts generated biochemical descriptions into metabolite graphs for patient-level prediction using a graph isomorphism network. Across four backbone families, Metab},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.06253},
  keywords = {cs.LG},
  eprint = {2608.06253},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
}

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