Over 200 Open PHACTS API users
230 individuals have registered for Open PHACTS API keys since the API launch in January 2013. If you haven’t already, sign up for your free API key now!
Open PHACTS Foundation part of a proposal for IMI’s 9th Call
The Open PHACTS Foundation is part of a proposal for IMI’s 9th Call – Leveraging Emerging Technology for Pharmacovigilance.
Managing Knowledge about Tissues IMI Workshop
Managing Knowledge about Tissues (Brussels, Belgium)
Presentation: Open PHACTS: How does it work? How can it work for tissue knowledge management?
Managing Knowledge about Tissues, Brussels, Belgium Christine Chichester (Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics) View presentation
Presentation: Knowledge management for transmembrane transporters
Managing Knowledge about Tissues, Brussels, Belgium Daniela Digles (University of Vienna) View presentation
Conference: ISWC 2013
ISWC 2013, The 12th International Semantic Web Conference, Sydney, Australia Paul Groth (VU University Amsterdam) and Carole Goble (University of Manchester) submitted a paper: Incorporating private and commercial data into an open linked data platform for drug discovery Alasdair Gray (Heriot-Watt University) gave a presentation for the ISWC 2013 Semantic Web…
Presentation: Incorporating Commercial and Private Data into an Open Linked Data Platform for Drug Discovery
ISWC 2013, The 12th International Semantic Web Conference, Sydney, Australia Alasdair Gray (Heriot-Watt University) View presentation
Open PHACTS welcomes Heriot-Watt as an Associated Partner
Open PHACTS extends a warm welcome to our new Associated Partner Heriot-Watt University. A full list of Associated Partners can be found here. Find out more about how you can get involved with Open PHACTS!
Open PHACTS: The Future
Take a look at these slides to see what is next in Open PHACTS and how you can get involved: The Future of Open PHACTS
Publication: Incorporating private and commercial data into an open linked data platform for drug discovery
The Open PHACTS Discovery Platform aims to provide an integrated information space to advance pharmacological research in the area of drug discovery. Effective drug discovery requires comprehensive data coverage, i.e. integrating all available sources of pharmacology data. While many relevant data sources are available on the linked open data cloud,…
Publication: Including Co-referent URIs in a SPARQL Query
Linked data relies on instance level links between potentially differing representations of concepts in multiple datasets. However, in large complex domains, such as pharmacology, the inter-relationship of data instances needs to consider the context (e.g. task, role) of the user and the assumptions they want to apply to the data….
Conference: COLD 2013
COLD 2013, Fourth International Workshop on Consuming Linked Data, Sydney, Australia Alasdair Gray (Heriot-Watt University) gave a presentation: Including Co-referent URIs in a SPARQL Query, and a full paper with the same title was submitted
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
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
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
NETTAB 2013, Venice Lido, Italy Antony Williams (Royal Society of Chemistry) View presentation
6th Steering Committee meeting held
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
NETTAB 2013, Venice Lido, Italy Christine Chichester (Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics) View presentation
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
Shaping the future of open PHACTS (Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
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
6th Steering Committee meeting (Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
Project Meeting: Workpackage Leader Group
6th Workpackage Leader Group meeting (Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
Open PHACTS welcomes SynerScope as an Associated Partner
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
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
The Open PHACTS Support Portal is now online at support.openphacts.org.
Presentation: The Open PHArmacological Concepts Triple Store
OpenTox Euro 2013, Mainz, Germany Egon Willighagen (Maastricht University) View presentation
Conference: OpenTox Euro 2013
OpenTox Euro 2013, Mainz, Germany Egon Willighagen (Maastricht University) gave a presentation: The Open PHArmacological Concepts Triple Store
Pipeline Pilot update
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
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…