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Conference: Revaluing Science in the Digital Age

On September 4, 2012, Posted by , In Conferences, By ,,, , With Comments Off on Conference: Revaluing Science in the Digital Age

Royal Society Workshop: Revaluing Science in the Digital Age, Chicheley Hall, UK Paul Groth (VU University Amsterdam) presented the Open PHACTS project

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Workshop 3 and Steering Committee meeting held in Vienna

On September 3, 2012, Posted by , In News, By ,,,,,,, , With Comments Off on Workshop 3 and Steering Committee meeting held in Vienna

The 3rd Open PHACTS Community Workshop “Introducing Open PHACTS” and the 4th Steering Committee meeting were successfully held on 30–31 August, 2012 in Vienna, co-located with the 19th EuroQSAR. The workshop publicly presented the upcoming public beta releases from the Open PHACTS project. It also introduced the technical and scientific approaches…

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Poster: Open PHACTS Use Cases

On September 3, 2012, Posted by , In Posters, By ,,,,,,,,,, , With Comments Off on Poster: Open PHACTS Use Cases

EFMC-ISMC 2012, 22nd International Symposium on Medicinal Chemistry, Berlin, Germany View poster

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Publication: Open data for drug discovery: learning from the biological community

On September 1, 2012, Posted by , In Publications, By ,,, , With Comments Off on Publication: Open data for drug discovery: learning from the biological community

Drug discovery is undergoing a transformational change. Early-stage target identification, lead generation and optimization work is now undertaken in a much more diverse set of organizations, involving biotechnology companies and academia as well as large pharmaceutical companies. Anne Hersey, Stefan Senger, John Overington Full publication: Future Medicinal Chemistry, Volume 4,…

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Publication: Druggable and biopharmable genome annotation pipeline development

On September 1, 2012, Posted by , In Publications, By ,, , With Comments Off on Publication: Druggable and biopharmable genome annotation pipeline development

The identification of proteins which could be potential targets for new pharmaceutical products is invaluable for the continued improvement people’s quality of life and expansion of available treatment options. In order to aid the discovery of new drug targets, predictions of every human gene likely to be exploitable by compounds…

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Project Meeting: Steering Committee

On August 31, 2012, Posted by , In Project Meetings, By , With Comments Off on Project Meeting: Steering Committee

4th Steering Committee meeting (Vienna, Austria)

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Conference: 19th EuroQSAR 2012

On August 30, 2012, Posted by , In Conferences, By ,,,,,,,,,,, , With Comments Off on Conference: 19th EuroQSAR 2012

19th EuroQSAR, Knowledge Enabled Ligand Design, Vienna, Austria Open PHACTS hosted a community workshop: Introducing Open PHACTS Mark Forster gave a presentation: Open Innovation Applied to Agrochemical Discovery Steve Pettifer gave a presentation: Utopia Documents Lee Harland gave a presentation: Open Drug Discovery Intelligence: Open PHACTS and SciBite Niklas Blomberg gave a…

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Project Meeting: Workshop

On August 30, 2012, Posted by , In Project Meetings, By ,,, , With Comments Off on Project Meeting: Workshop

Semantic Web for Dummies workshop (Vienna, Austria)

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Poster: Open PHACTS Architecture: Building the extensible platform

On August 30, 2012, Posted by , In Posters, By , , With Comments Off on Poster: Open PHACTS Architecture: Building the extensible platform

19th EuroQSAR, Knowledge Enabled Ligand Design, Vienna, Austria View poster

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Poster: Open PHACTS Scientific Competency Questions: Guiding the technical development

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19th EuroQSAR, Knowledge Enabled Ligand Design, Vienna, Austria View poster

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Poster: Open PHACTS Examplars: Using the Open PHACTS Platform API

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19th EuroQSAR, Knowledge Enabled Ligand Design, Vienna, Austria View poster

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3rd Open PHACTS Community Workshop

On August 30, 2012, Posted by , In Community Workshops, By ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, , With Comments Off on 3rd Open PHACTS Community Workshop

Introducing Open PHACTS (Vienna, Austria) Co-located with the 19th EuroQSAR conference

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Publication: Molecular Informatics Special Issue: Open Innovation in Drug Discovery

On August 15, 2012, Posted by , In Publications, By ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, , With Comments Off on Publication: Molecular Informatics Special Issue: Open Innovation in Drug Discovery

Several publications about Open PHACTS were included in this Special Issue of Molecular Informatics. Open Innovation in Drug Discovery. Gerhard F. Ecker, Bryn Williams-Jones; Molecular Informatics 31: 519–520 Taking Open Innovation to the Molecular Level – Strengths and Limitations. Barbara Zdrazil, Niklas Blomberg, Gerhard F. Ecker; Molecular Informatics 31: 528–535 PharmaTrek: A Semantic Web Explorer for Open Innovation in Multitarget…

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Announcing Open PHACTS Workshop at EuroQSAR 2012

On August 10, 2012, Posted by , In News, By ,,,,,,,,,,,,, , With Comments Off on Announcing Open PHACTS Workshop at EuroQSAR 2012

EuroQSAR 2012 in Vienna Open PHACTS Workshop “Introducing Open PHACTS” Thursday 30 August, 13:30-14:45 Presenters : L. Harland, P. Groth, C. Lemmen, L. Wich, J. Mestres, V. de la Torre This workshop will publicly present the first results of the IMI project Open PHACTS, which is producing an open, integrated…

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Open PHACTS welcomes IUPHAR-DB as an Associated Partner

On August 3, 2012, Posted by , In News, By ,,,, , With Comments Off on Open PHACTS welcomes IUPHAR-DB as an Associated Partner

Open PHACTS extends a warm welcome to our new Associated Partner IUPHAR-DB (University of Edinburgh). A full list of Associated Partners can be found here. Find out more about how you can get involved with Open PHACTS!

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Conference: ICBO 2012

On July 25, 2012, Posted by , In Conferences, By ,,,, , With Comments Off on Conference: ICBO 2012

ICBO 2012: 3rd International Conference on Biomedical Ontology, Graz, Austria Rishi Ramgolam (AQnowledge) presented a paper: The Pharmacology Workspace: A Platform for Drug Discovery

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Publication: The Pharmacology Workspace: A Platform for Drug Discovery

On July 25, 2012, Posted by , In Publications, By ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, , With Comments Off on Publication: The Pharmacology Workspace: A Platform for Drug Discovery

We present the Open PHACTS linked data platform that is being developed to address a set of example drug discovery research questions and which supports several drug discovery applications. The platform retrieves data from many complementary, but overlapping, data sources to present an integrated view of the data. The platform…

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Publication: Microattribution and nanopublication as means to incentivize the placement of human genome variation data into the public domain

On July 23, 2012, Posted by , In Publications, By ,,,,,,,,,, , With Comments Off on Publication: Microattribution and nanopublication as means to incentivize the placement of human genome variation data into the public domain

The advances in bioinformatics required to annotate human genomic variants and to place them in public data repositories have not kept pace with their discovery. Moreover, a law of diminishing returns has begun to operate both in terms of data publication and submission. Although the continued deposition of such data…

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Press Release: Eagle Genomics Ltd. becomes an associate partner of Open PHACTS project

On July 18, 2012, Posted by , In Press Releases, By ,,,, , With Comments Off on Press Release: Eagle Genomics Ltd. becomes an associate partner of Open PHACTS project

(PDF) Cambridge, UK – The Open PHACTS consortium is pleased to announce an Associate Partner relationship with Eagle Genomcis Ltd. (Eagle). Eagle intend to work with the consortium members to interface Open PHACTS with genomics tools (e.g. the Ensembl Browser) and workflows (e.g. Hive/Galaxy), and also facilitate the integration of data from…

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Open PHACTS welcomes Sage Bionetworks as an Associated Partner

On July 12, 2012, Posted by , In News, By ,, , With Comments Off on Open PHACTS welcomes Sage Bionetworks as an Associated Partner

Open PHACTS extends a warm welcome to our new Associated Partner Sage Bionetworks. A full list of Associated Partners can be found here. Find out more about how you can get involved with Open PHACTS!

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Open PHACTS welcomes four new Associated Partners

On July 3, 2012, Posted by , In News, By ,,,,,, , With Comments Off on Open PHACTS welcomes four new Associated Partners

Open PHACTS extends a warm welcome to our new Associated Partners: Ian Harrow Consulting, the Institute for Research in Biomedicine & Parc Cientific Barcelona, Numedicus Ltd, and the The National Center for Biomedical Ontology. A full list of Associated Partners can be found here. Find out more about how you can get involved with Open PHACTS!

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Press Release: Five new partners join Open PHACTS

On July 3, 2012, Posted by , In Press Releases, By ,,,,,,,, , With Comments Off on Press Release: Five new partners join Open PHACTS

(PDF) The Open PHACTS consortium is pleased to announce that ConnectedDiscovery, the European Bioinformatics Institute, Janssen, the Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre, and the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics have joined the project as new consortium members. The addition of these partners – bringing together respected drug discovery and bioinformatics expertise from academic institutions,…

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Project Meeting: Hackathon

On June 20, 2012, Posted by , In Project Meetings, By , With Comments Off on Project Meeting: Hackathon

Hackathon (Manchester, UK)

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Publication: Solving Bottlenecks in Data Sharing in the Life Sciences

On June 18, 2012, Posted by , In Publications, By ,,,,,,,,,, , With Comments Off on Publication: Solving Bottlenecks in Data Sharing in the Life Sciences

The joint Open PHACTS/GEN2PHEN workshop on “Solving Bottlenecks in Data Sharing in the Life Sciences” was held in Volendam, the Netherlands, on September 19 and 20, 2011, and was attended by representatives from academia, industry, publishing, and funding agencies. The aim of the workshop was to explore the issues that…

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Publication: Open PHACTS: Semantic interoperability for drug discovery

On June 6, 2012, Posted by , In Publications, By ,,,,,,,,,,, , With Comments Off on Publication: Open PHACTS: Semantic interoperability for drug discovery

Open PHACTS is a public–private partnership between academia, publishers, small and medium sized enterprises and pharmaceutical companies. The goal of the project is to deliver and sustain an ‘open pharmacological space’ using and enhancing state-of-the-art semantic web standards and technologies. It is focused on practical and robust applications to solve…

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Conference: IMI Stakeholder Forum

On May 30, 2012, Posted by , In Conferences, By ,,,, , With Comments Off on Conference: IMI Stakeholder Forum

IMI Stakeholder Forum 2012, Brussels, Belgium Gerhard Ecker (University of Vienna) and Bryn Williams-Jones (Connected Discovery) gave a presentation: The Open Pharmacological Concepts Triple Store

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Presentation: The Open Pharmacological Concepts Triple Store

On May 30, 2012, Posted by , In Presentations, By ,,,, , With Comments Off on Presentation: The Open Pharmacological Concepts Triple Store

IMI Stakeholder Forum 2012, Brussels, Belgium Bryn Williams-Jones (Connected Discovery), Gerhard Ecker (University of Vienna) View presentation

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Conference: 6th European Conference on Rare Diseases

On May 25, 2012, Posted by , In Conferences, By ,,,,,,,,, , With Comments Off on Conference: 6th European Conference on Rare Diseases

6th European Conference on Rare Diseases & Orphan Products, Brussels, Belgium Richard Kidd (Royal Society of Chemistry) and Marco Roos (LUMC) gave a presentation: Making rare diseases visible for research and public health

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Project Meeting: Workpackage Leader Group

On May 23, 2012, Posted by , In Project Meetings, By , With Comments Off on Project Meeting: Workpackage Leader Group

3rd Workpackage Leader Group meeting (Manchester, UK)

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Project Meeting: Useathon

On May 22, 2012, Posted by , In Project Meetings, By , With Comments Off on Project Meeting: Useathon

Useathon (Manchester, UK)

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