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Conference: Accelrys Solutions for Enhancing Research Innovation

On May 14, 2013, Posted by , In Conferences, By ,,, , With Comments Off on Conference: Accelrys Solutions for Enhancing Research Innovation

Accelrys Solutions for Enhancing Research Innovation, Frankfurt, Germany Christian Herhaus (Merck KGaA) gave a presentation: Addressing Research Questions by Integration of Open PHACTS with Pipeline Pilot

Open PHACTS featured in blog posts

On May 13, 2013, Posted by , In News, By ,,,,, , With Comments Off on Open PHACTS featured in blog posts

Open PHACTS has been featured on the ChEMBL and Corante blogs: ChEMBL blog: Direct submissions of data to ChEMBL and the Open PHACTS project by Stefan Senger Corante blog: In the Pipeline: Why Not Share More Bioactivity Data? by Derek Lowe

Conference: ASMC 2013

On May 8, 2013, Posted by , In Conferences, By ,,,, , With Comments Off on Conference: ASMC 2013

5th International Symposium on Advances in Synthetic and Medicinal Chemistry, Moscow, Russia Marcus Gastreich (BioSolveIT) represented Open PHACTS

Open PHACTS featured in RSC News article

On May 8, 2013, Posted by , In News, By ,, , With Comments Off on Open PHACTS featured in RSC News article

Open PHACTS has been featured in the Royal Society of Chemistry news article Big data in drug discovery.

Open PHACTS Newsletter 2

On May 7, 2013, Posted by , In Newsletters, By ,,,,, , With Comments Off on Open PHACTS Newsletter 2

Contents: Using the Power of Open PHACTS: Community Workshop, 22-23 April 2013, London Public Release of the API Open PHACTS Explorer Public Release of ChemBioNavigator and PharmaTrek Recent Presentations and Publications Open PHACTS code now on GitHub Accelrys Hackathon & Community Website Recent Associated Partners View newsletter Sign up for…

W3C Provenance Recommendations are published

On May 3, 2013, Posted by , In News, By ,,, , With Comments Off on W3C Provenance Recommendations are published

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has published the PROV Family of Documents as recommendations. PROV defines how to interchange provenance information between systems and has been developed with significant support from Open PHACTS. For more information see the W3C announcement, interview and a specifications overview.

Open PHACTS welcomes DIQA as an Associated Partner

On April 30, 2013, Posted by , In News, By ,,, , With Comments Off on Open PHACTS welcomes DIQA as an Associated Partner

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

PharmaTrek officially released

On April 29, 2013, Posted by , In News, By ,, , With Comments Off on PharmaTrek officially released

It is our pleasure to announce that PharmaTrek, one of the Example Applications developed within the project, has been officially released. To get started watch the demo video. Find out more about PharmaTrek and other example applications

Open PHACTS featured in BMJ Group blog

On April 26, 2013, Posted by , In News, By ,, , With Comments Off on Open PHACTS featured in BMJ Group blog

Open PHACTS has been featured in the BMJ Web Development Blog: Open PHACTS: semantic technologies and drug discovery, by Claire Bower.

Project Meeting: Researchathon

On April 25, 2013, Posted by , In Project Meetings, By , With Comments Off on Project Meeting: Researchathon

Researchathon (London, UK) Participant List

Open PHACTS welcomes Oxford e-Research Centre as an Associated Partner

On April 24, 2013, Posted by , In News, By ,, , With Comments Off on Open PHACTS welcomes Oxford e-Research Centre as an Associated Partner

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

4th Open PHACTS Community Workshop

On April 23, 2013, Posted by , In Community Workshops, By , , With Comments Off on 4th Open PHACTS Community Workshop

Using the power of Open PHACTS (London, UK)

Conference: UK-QSAR Spring Meeting 2013

On April 23, 2013, Posted by , In Conferences, By ,,,, , With Comments Off on Conference: UK-QSAR Spring Meeting 2013

UK-QSAR and ChemoInformatics Group Spring Meeting 2013, Bedford, UK Marcus Gastreich (BioSolveIT) presented Open PHACTS

Open PHACTS developers’ page launched

On April 23, 2013, Posted by , In News, By ,, , With Comments Off on Open PHACTS developers’ page launched

The developers’ page for the Open PHACTS API was officially launched at the 4th Open PHACTS Community Workshop in London. Check it out now at dev.openphacts.org Please contact pmu@openphacts.org if you would like to be added to the public developers’ mailing list.

ChemBioNavigator launched

On April 23, 2013, Posted by , In News, By ,,,,, , With Comments Off on ChemBioNavigator launched

We are proud to announce that ChemBioNavigator, one of the Example Applications developed within the project, has been launched. Try out ChemBioNavigator now ChemBioNavigator allows the user to visualise the chemical and biological space of a molecule group in a chemically-aware manner. The physicochemical properties of molecular groups can be plotted against…

Conference: NBIC 2013

Netherlands Bioinformatics Conference 2013, Lunteren, the Netherlands Andra Waagmeester (Maastricht University) gave a presentation: Visualizing Biological Linked Open Data Anwesha Bohler (Maastricht University) gave a presentation: PathVisio3: new features for pathway analysis and visualization

New Open PHACTS brochure

On April 16, 2013, Posted by , In News, By ,, , With Comments Off on New Open PHACTS brochure

Find out more about Open PHACTS in our new informative brochure: Integrating pharmacological data: For scientists; for software and application developers; a semantic data integration infrastructure

One week until the 4th Open PHACTS Community Workshop

On April 14, 2013, Posted by , In News, By ,,,,, , With Comments Off on One week until the 4th Open PHACTS Community Workshop

The 4th Open PHACTS Community Workshop will be held in London on 22–23 April 2013. The workshop will inform participants of the overall aims and plans of Open PHACTS, emphasising Open PHACTS as a data service provider that can be integrated with and aid the development of third party applications….

Presentation: Open PHACTS: meaningful linking of preclinical drug discovery knowledge

On April 11, 2013, Posted by , In Presentations, By ,,, , With Comments Off on Presentation: Open PHACTS: meaningful linking of preclinical drug discovery knowledge

245th ACS National Meeting & Exposition, New Orleans, USA Egon Willighagen (Maastricht University) View presentation

Conference: 245th ACS National Meeting & Exposition

On April 11, 2013, Posted by , In Conferences, By ,,, , With Comments Off on Conference: 245th ACS National Meeting & Exposition

245th ACS National Meeting & Exposition, New Orleans, USA Egon Willighagen (Maastricht University) gave a presentation: Open PHACTS: meaningful linking of preclinical drug discovery knowledge

Open PHACTS welcomes OpenBEL as an Associated Partner

On April 8, 2013, Posted by , In News, By ,, , With Comments Off on Open PHACTS welcomes OpenBEL as an Associated Partner

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

Open PHACTS code available on GitHub

On March 28, 2013, Posted by , In News, By , , With Comments Off on Open PHACTS code available on GitHub

The Open PHACTS code repository is now available as an open source community project on GitHub. The central GUI API, GUI components code, API configuration files, Open PHACTS Explorer code and much more can be found here.

Open PHACTS guidelines

On March 27, 2013, Posted by , In News, By ,, , With Comments Off on Open PHACTS guidelines

We now have two sets of public guidelines about Open PHACTS for data providers. Guidelines on exposing data as RDF in Open PHACTS. These guidelines are a “how to” guide for data providers who want to expose their data as RDF in the Open PHACTS platform. Dataset Description for the Open Pharmacological Space…

ChEMBL RDF Workshop held

On March 27, 2013, Posted by , In News, By ,,,,,, , With Comments Off on ChEMBL RDF Workshop held

The ChEMBL database is one of the most important sources of open drug discovery data and is a key part of linked data in the biomedical domain. Last week members of the Open PHACTS team, which includes the ChEMBL group, met at the EBI in Cambridge for a 2 day…

Beyond the PDF 2 Conference

On March 26, 2013, Posted by , In News, By ,, , With Comments Off on Beyond the PDF 2 Conference

Several Open PHACTS members attended the Beyond the PDF 2 Conference, which brought together academics, publishers, funders, entrepreneurs, and industry to discuss how to change scholarly communication. Nanopublications were well represented at the conference including a preconference meeting focused on the nanopublications community. Overall, it was clear that Open PHACTS…

Project Meeting: Workshop

On March 22, 2013, Posted by , In Project Meetings, By ,,,, , With Comments Off on Project Meeting: Workshop

ChEMBL RDF Workshop (Cambridgeshire, UK)

Conference: Semantic Web Workshop

On March 22, 2013, Posted by , In Conferences, By , With Comments Off on Conference: Semantic Web Workshop

Semantic Web Workshop, Karlsruhe, Germany Open PHACTS was represented at the workshop

Conference: Joint Scientific Symposium (ASTOX, ÖPhG, ASAC, ÖGGM and CCC)

On March 21, 2013, Posted by , In Conferences, By ,,,,,, , With Comments Off on Conference: Joint Scientific Symposium (ASTOX, ÖPhG, ASAC, ÖGGM and CCC)

Joint Scientific Symposium of the Austrian Societies of Toxicology (ASTOX), Pharmacy (ÖPhG), Analytic Chemistry (ASAC), Forensic Medicine (ÖGGM) and the Comprehensive Cancer Center (CCC), Vienna, Austria Gerhard Ecker (University of Vienna) represented Open PHACTS

Conference: Annual Drug Discovery Innovations 2013

On March 20, 2013, Posted by , In Conferences, By ,,,,, , With Comments Off on Conference: Annual Drug Discovery Innovations 2013

Informa Life Sciences Annual Drug Discovery Innovations 2013, Berlin, Germany Gerhard Ecker (University of Vienna) was an invited speaker in the session “Partnerships and Open Innovation in Drug Discovery”

Conference: Beyond the PDF 2

On March 20, 2013, Posted by , In Conferences, By , , With Comments Off on Conference: Beyond the PDF 2

Beyond the PDF 2, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Several Open PHACTS representatives were in attendance