Frontier LLM-based agents can overcome the ontology curation bottleneck for natural phenotypes

ArXi:2605.28965v1 Announce Type: new Linking free-text phenotype descriptions to ontology terms, typically referred to as phenotype annotation, is essential for the cross-study integration of comparative morphological data. This labor intensive process has heavily relied on highly trained human experts, which makes it challenging to scale and thus a key bottleneck.