Yeah they haven’t made much of an impact yet but I’m almost certain they’ll help improve biological models in the future.
Check out INDRA (http://www.indra.bio/). It uses standard NLP tech to convert natural language references to computational models. But, that old school NLP is pretty limited in “understanding” context and details and so the models it makes aren't really comparable to human built models. LLM’s could change that, building really high quality, correct models. That opens up the possibility that we could take all of the biological knowledge in papers and integrate it into models we could use to make much more detailed predictions about cellular behavior.
That said, there’s a ton of work to be done to make it reliable and validate the results.
Check out INDRA (http://www.indra.bio/). It uses standard NLP tech to convert natural language references to computational models. But, that old school NLP is pretty limited in “understanding” context and details and so the models it makes aren't really comparable to human built models. LLM’s could change that, building really high quality, correct models. That opens up the possibility that we could take all of the biological knowledge in papers and integrate it into models we could use to make much more detailed predictions about cellular behavior.
That said, there’s a ton of work to be done to make it reliable and validate the results.