Dataset

BioRxiv Life Sciences Preprints Corpus

Contains 17,997 biology preprint records with abstracts, bibliographic metadata, and a subject category label for scientific NLP tasks.

Kaggle ↗Jul 5, 2026

  • nlp
  • scientific-abstracts
  • text-classification
  • biology

What it is

17,997 BioRxiv preprints with abstracts, metadata, and subject labels for scientific text classification and analysis. 17,997 BioRxiv preprints with abstracts plus paper metadata and subject categories; structured as one record per preprint with title, authors, institution, date, version, DOI, and publication link.

Key results

  • 17,997 preprint records
  • Fields include abstract, title, authors, DOI, date, version
  • 100% fill rate for category; zero duplicate rows

Useful for training and benchmarking models that classify biology preprints by subject area.

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The Weekly ML Signal

Selected, not collected.

One useful ML email a week: the papers, repos and datasets worth your attention.

Worth your time, not all of your time.