Dataset Summary

This dataset contains 4803 question/answer pairs extracted from the BioStars website. The site focuses on bioinformatics, computational genomics, and biological data analysis.

Dataset Location and Details

https://huggingface.co/datasets/cannin/biostars_qa

Source Data as a single JSON file

This dataset was generated by downloading individual posts; only limited metadata is included with the dataset. The following Zenodo dataset has the entirety of the downloaded post content as a single JSON file.

https://zenodo.org/record/7813785

Code Details

• Executing the script will perform the entire process end-to-end.
• get_biostars_dataset(): This function downloads the content from Biostars API; each post is downloaded as an individual JSON file
• extract_accepted_data(): This function loads the individual files to Pandas then extracts out question/answer pairs. Questions were included if they were an accepted answer and the question had at least 1 vote. The content is then formatted as a Apache Parquet dataset with columns: INSTRUCTION, RESPONSE, SOURCE, METADATA