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Presentation: Including Co-referent URIs in a SPARQL Query

On October 22, 2013, Posted by , In Presentations, By ,,,, , With Comments Off on Presentation: Including Co-referent URIs in a SPARQL Query

COLD 2013, Fourth International Workshop on Consuming Linked Data, Sydney, Australia Alasdair Gray (Heriot-Watt University) View presentation See also: Full publication: Including Co-referent URIs in a SPARQL Query

“Shaping the future of Open PHACTS” Community Workshop held in Amsterdam

On October 18, 2013, Posted by , In News, By ,,,, , With Comments Off on “Shaping the future of Open PHACTS” Community Workshop held in Amsterdam

5th Open PHACTS Community Workshop Amsterdam, the Netherlands – This event brought together an exciting mix of participants and organisations to discuss options for future involvement with the Open PHACTS Discovery Platform and our vision for the Open PHACTS Foundation. The workshop featured talks describing the recent progress of the…

Conference: NETTAB 2013

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NETTAB 2013, Venice Lido, Italy Antony Williams (Royal Society of Chemistry) gave a presentation: Facilitating Scientific Discovery through Crowdsourcing and Distributed Participation Christine Chichester (Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics) gave a presentation: Mobile semantic technologies using Open PHACTS

Presentation: Facilitating Scientific Discovery through Crowdsourcing and Distributed Participation

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NETTAB 2013, Venice Lido, Italy Antony Williams (Royal Society of Chemistry) View presentation

6th Steering Committee meeting held

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The sixth Open PHACTS Steering Committee Meeting was held at DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Amsterdam Centraal Station in Amsterdam on 10 October, 2013. The Steering Committee and Scientific Advisory Board were informed about the great progress the project has made since the last meeting in March and were introduced to future…

Presentation: Mobile semantic technologies using Open PHACTS

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NETTAB 2013, Venice Lido, Italy Christine Chichester (Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics) View presentation

Supporting other initiatives

On October 11, 2013, Posted by , In News, By , , With Comments Off on Supporting other initiatives

In addition to the main API and user applications, the Open PHACTS project has contributed directly to a broad range of other initiatives which we believe are important to life science research. Projects that Open PHACTS has funded or supported

5th Open PHACTS Community Workshop

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Shaping the future of open PHACTS (Amsterdam, the Netherlands)

GARField launched

On October 10, 2013, Posted by , In News, By ,,, , With Comments Off on GARField launched

We are proud to announce the launch of GARField, one of the example applications developed within Open PHACTS. GARField is an abbreviation for Graph-Activity-Relationship visualization Field and is a realisation of the Open PHACTS “Polypharmacology Browser”. It can be used to browse data in the Open PHACTS platform, with the main focus on enabling the…

Project Meeting: Steering Committee

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6th Steering Committee meeting (Amsterdam, the Netherlands)

Project Meeting: Workpackage Leader Group

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6th Workpackage Leader Group meeting (Amsterdam, the Netherlands)

Open PHACTS welcomes SynerScope as an Associated Partner

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

Publication: Guidelines for exposing data as RDF in Open PHACTS

On October 7, 2013, Posted by , In Publications, By ,,,,, , With Comments Off on Publication: Guidelines for exposing data as RDF in Open PHACTS

This is a “how to” guide for exposing your data in RDF in the Open PHACTS system. Carina Haupt, Andra Waagmeester, Marc Zimmerman, Egon Willighagen Full publication: Open PHACTS Working Draft 07 October 2013

Open PHACTS Support Portal Online

On October 1, 2013, Posted by , In News, By ,, , With Comments Off on Open PHACTS Support Portal Online

The Open PHACTS Support Portal is now online at support.openphacts.org.

Presentation: The Open PHArmacological Concepts Triple Store

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OpenTox Euro 2013, Mainz, Germany Egon Willighagen (Maastricht University) View presentation

Conference: OpenTox Euro 2013

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OpenTox Euro 2013, Mainz, Germany Egon Willighagen (Maastricht University) gave a presentation: The Open PHArmacological Concepts Triple Store

Pipeline Pilot update

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A new version (1.5) of the Open PHACTS Pipeline Pilot component collection is now available. Try out the new components

Open PHACTS user support

On September 25, 2013, Posted by , In News, By ,,, , With Comments Off on Open PHACTS user support

We are happy to announce that the Open PHACTS support portal is now active, including a knowledge base, a forum and a ticket system: Use the knowledge base to look up answers to frequently asked questions and search our user documentation. Use the forum to post questions and comments for…

Presentation: Open PHACTS: A novel platform for integrated data-driven drug discovery

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Europin Summer School in Drug Design, Vienna, Austria Gerhard Ecker (University of Vienna) View presentation

Presentation: Real-World Open PHACTS Use Cases

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EBI Industry Workshop: Data integration and its application Lee Harland (Connected Discovery) View presentation

Conference: EMBL-EBI Industry Programme Workshop

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EMBL-EBI Industry Programme Workshop: Data integration and its application, Cambridgeshire, UK Lee Harland (Connected Discovery) gave a presentation: Real-World Open PHACTS Use Cases

Conference: Europin Summer School in Drug Design

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Europin Summer School in Drug Design, Vienna, Austria Christian Lemmen (University of Hamburg) presented ChemBioNavigator, and Gerhard Ecker (University of Vienna) gave a presentation: Open PHACTS: A novel platform for integrated data-driven drug discovery

Publication: Provenance: An Introduction to PROV

On September 17, 2013, Posted by , In Publications, By ,,, , With Comments Off on Publication: Provenance: An Introduction to PROV

The World Wide Web is now deeply intertwined with our lives, and has become a catalyst for a data deluge, making vast amounts of data available online, at a click of a button. With Web 2.0, users are no longer passive consumers, but active publishers and curators of data. Hence,…

5th Community Workshop: Shaping the future of Open PHACTS

On September 13, 2013, Posted by , In News, By ,,, , With Comments Off on 5th Community Workshop: Shaping the future of Open PHACTS

The Open PHACTS data integration project has achieved much since 2011, and the sustainability of the service and future scientific community development are the primary subject of this meeting. To this end, the not-for-profit successor organisation for the Open PHACTS project, the Open PHACTS Foundation, has recently been established. We…

Publication: Encoding units and unit types in RDF using QUDT

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This guideline describes how units for data are preferably encoded, setting a standard that can then be handled uniformly by data consumers. Egon Willighagen Full publication: Open PHACTS Working Draft 13 September 2013

New version of dataset description guidelines

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We are pleased to announce that a new version of the dataset description guidelines has just been published. The latest version, dated 12 September 2013, is available from http://www.openphacts.org/specs/datadesc/. The key goal of this revision was to simplify the description of datasets to make it is easier for providers to…

Presentation: Practical semantics in the pharmaceutical industry – the Open PHACTS project

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246th ACS National Meeting & Exposition, Indianapolis, USA Antony Williams (Royal Society of Chemistry) View presentation

Conference: 246th ACS National Meeting & Exposition

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246th ACS National Meeting & Exposition, Indianapolis, USA Antony Williams (Royal Society of Chemistry) gave a presentation: Practical semantics in the pharmaceutical industry – the Open PHACTS project

Publication: Dataset Descriptions for the Open Pharmacological Space

On September 12, 2013, Posted by , In Publications, By ,,,,,,,, , With Comments Off on Publication: Dataset Descriptions for the Open Pharmacological Space

This is a specification for the metadata to described datasets, and the linksets that relate them, to enable their use within the Open PHACTS discovery platform. The specification defines the metadata properties that are expected to describe datasets and linksets; detailing the creation and publication of the dataset. Details of…

Conference: MedChem Russia 2013

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1st Russian Conference on Medicinal Chemistry, Moscow, Russia Marcus Gastreich (BioSolveIT) presented ChemBioNavigator