Node.js library OPS.js now available
OPS.js is a JavaScript library you can use to fetch and parse responses from the Open PHACTS API. It is now available via the Node Package Manager which means that anyone using Node-based JavaScript applications can easily include it. It is also available as a single file download for standard…
Biological annotations in SureChEMBL
Biological patent annotations are now displayed on the SureChEMBL interface. In collaboration with Open PHACTS and SciBite, the EBI have implemented a mechanism to allow users to highlight biological entities (such as genes and diseases) within SureChEMBL patent documents. For more information see the SureChEMBL blog. This is a first step towards full integration…
ChemBioNavigator Webinar
ChemBioNavigator is a web application that was specifically designed to visualise the small-molecule and pharmacological data integrated by Open PHACTS. Last week BioSolveIT hosted a webinar showing how ChemBioNavigator can be used to: discover new target-compound interactions identify multi-target as well as target-specific compound sets retrieve small-molecule data from a variety…
Project Meeting: Tech Team
Tech Team Meeting (Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
Publication: Medicinal chemistry in the era of big data
In the era of big data medicinal chemists are exposed to an enormous amount of bioactivity data. Numerous public data sources allow for querying across medium to large data sets mostly compiled from literature. However, the data available are still quite incomplete and of mixed quality. This mini review will…
Conference: Bioinformatics Open Source Conference 2015
Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) 2015, Dublin, Ireland Ian Dunlop (University of Manchester) gave a lightning presentation: Visualising Open PHACTS linked data with widgets
Presentation: Visualising Open PHACTS linked data with widgets
Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) 2015, Dublin, Ireland Ian Dunlop (University of Manchester) Watch presentation video | View presentation slides
Pipeline Pilot Component Collection 1.5 Released
We are pleased to announce the release of version 1.5 of the Open PHACTS component collection. There are no major changes to the components, but this version is needed to connect to version 1.5 of the Open PHACTS API, which has refreshed data and several other improvements. Version 1.5 of the Open PHACTS…