---
license: cc-by-4.0
task_categories:
- text-classification
- question-answering
- text-generation
language:
- en
tags:
- biology
size_categories:
- 1K<n<10K
---

## Dataset Description

- **BioStars Homepage:** https://www.biostars.org/
- **BioStars Paper:** https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002216
- **Code Repository (This Dataset):** https://github.com/cannin/biostars_qa


### Dataset Summary

This dataset contains 4803 question/answer pairs extracted from the [BioStars](https://www.biostars.org/) website. The site focuses on bioinformatics, computational genomics, and biological data analysis.

## Dataset Structure

### Data Fields

The data contains INSTRUCTION, RESPONSE, SOURCE, and METADATA fields. The format is described for [LAION-AI/Open-Assistant](https://github.com/LAION-AI/Open-Assistant/blob/main/data/datasets/README.md)

## Dataset Creation

### Curation Rationale

Questions were included if they were an accepted answer and the question had at least 1 vote. 

### Source Data

Data collected using the [Biostars API](https://www.biostars.org/info/api/) 

## Additional Information

### Dataset Curators

[@cannin](https://github.com/cannin). @cannin has no affiliation with the BioStars project.

### Licensing Information

Apache-2.0

### Citation Information

#### BioStars Project
Cite the original project: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002216

#### This Dataset
Citation for this dataset: 

```
@misc{Luna2023a,
  author = {Augustin Luna},
  title = {biostars_qa Dataset},
  year = {2023},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/cannin/biostars_qa}}
}
```

#### This Dataset Code
Citation for the code to generate this dataset:

```
@misc{Luna2023b,
  author = {Augustin Luna},
  title = {biostars_qa Code},
  year = {2023},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/cannin/biostars_qa}}
}
```