SOMA: Research Automation Platform

SOMA is a research automation platform designed to efficiently uncover undocumented pathways between factors and medical conditions using a database of open access journals. It leverages AI technology to build a knowledge graph, speeding up the search process. The platform analyzes medical research articles, extracts important concepts, and identifies causal and associative relationships between them. This information is organized into a specialized database, allowing researchers to specify a pair of concepts and retrieve causal chains documented by sentences extracted from research articles.

Researchers can specify a pair of concepts (cause and effect) and the system will retrieve causal chains with lengths specified by the filter. Every link in each causal chain is documented by a sentence extracted from a research article. Specific research articles can be accessed by the user using web links provided by the system.