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Open PHACTS welcomes two new Associated Partners

On November 28, 2012, Posted by , In News, By ,,, , With Comments Off on Open PHACTS welcomes two new Associated Partners

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

Open PHACTS welcomes Ontoforce as an Associated Partner

On November 27, 2012, Posted by , In News, By ,, , With Comments Off on Open PHACTS welcomes Ontoforce as an Associated Partner

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

Open PHACTS successfully passes Interim Review

On November 26, 2012, Posted by , In News, By ,, , With Comments Off on Open PHACTS successfully passes Interim Review

We are proud to announce that Open PHACTS has had a very successful interim review meeting last week. The reviewers congratulated the project on our impressive achievements and recommended that we continue as planned. The reviewers as well as IMI were very impressed by the huge progress made in the project since…

Publication: Scientific Lenses over Linked Data: An approach to support task specific views of the data. A vision.

On November 12, 2012, Posted by , In Publications, By ,,,,,,,,,, , With Comments Off on Publication: Scientific Lenses over Linked Data: An approach to support task specific views of the data. A vision.

Within complex scientific domains such as pharmacology, operational equivalence between two concepts is often context-, user- and task-specific. Existing Linked Data integration procedures and equivalence services do not take the context and task of the user into account. We present a vision for enabling users to control the notion of operational…

Conference: LISC 2012

On November 12, 2012, Posted by , In Conferences, By ,,, , With Comments Off on Conference: LISC 2012

2nd International Workshop on Linked Science 2012 – Tackling Big Data, Boston, USA The University of Manchester, Maastrict University, and VU University Amsterdam submitted a paper: Scientific Lenses over Linked Data: An approach to support task specific views of the data. A vision.

Open PHACTS welcomes two new Associated Partners

On November 8, 2012, Posted by , In News, By ,,, , With Comments Off on Open PHACTS welcomes two new Associated Partners

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

Project Meeting: Interim Review

On November 7, 2012, Posted by , In Project Meetings, By , With Comments Off on Project Meeting: Interim Review

Open PHACTS Interim Review rehearsal (London, UK)

4th Open PHACTS Community Workshop announced

On October 24, 2012, Posted by , In News, By ,,, , With Comments Off on 4th Open PHACTS Community Workshop announced

Using the power of Open PHACTS: 4th Community Workshop  22-23 April 2013, Chemistry Centre, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London This workshop will informe 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…

Open PHACTS welcomes VIVO as an Associated Partner

On October 15, 2012, Posted by , In News, By ,, , With Comments Off on Open PHACTS welcomes VIVO as an Associated Partner

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

Presentation: Practical Semantics In The Pharmaceutical Industry – The Open PHACTS Project

On October 12, 2012, Posted by , In Presentations, By ,,,, , With Comments Off on Presentation: Practical Semantics In The Pharmaceutical Industry – The Open PHACTS Project

EKAW 2012: 18th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, Galway City, Ireland Lee Harland (Connected Discovery) View presentation video Read conference paper

Conference: EKAW 2012

On October 12, 2012, Posted by , In Conferences, By ,,,, , With Comments Off on Conference: EKAW 2012

EKAW 2012: 18th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, Galway City, Ireland Open PHACTS was a Gold Sponsor of the conference, and Lee Harland (Connected Discovery) gave a presentation: Practical Semantics In The Pharmaceutical Industry – The Open PHACTS Project

Conference: Bio-IT World Europe 2012

On October 11, 2012, Posted by , In Conferences, By ,,, , With Comments Off on Conference: Bio-IT World Europe 2012

Bio-IT World Conference & Expo 2012, Vienna, Austria Anwesha Dutta (Maastricht University) presented a poster about Open PHACTS exemplar applications

Publication: Theoretical and technological building blocks for an innovation accelerator

Modern science is a main driver of technological innovation. The efficiency of the scientific system is of key importance to ensure the competitiveness of a nation or region. However, the scientific system that we use today was devised centuries ago and is inadequate for our current ICT-based society: the peer…

Conference: CDISC Training

On October 2, 2012, Posted by , In Conferences, By ,, , With Comments Off on Conference: CDISC Training

Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium training, Brussels, Belgium Open PHACTS participated in this event at the IMI office

Open PHACTS welcomes Genetta Soft as an Associated Partner

On October 1, 2012, Posted by , In News, By ,, , With Comments Off on Open PHACTS welcomes Genetta Soft as an Associated Partner

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

Publication: Open PHACTS: A semantic knowledge infrastructure for public and commercial drug discovery research

On September 25, 2012, Posted by , In Publications, By , , With Comments Off on Publication: Open PHACTS: A semantic knowledge infrastructure for public and commercial drug discovery research

Technology advances in the last decade have led to a “digital revolution” in biomedical research. Much greater volumes of data can be generated in much less time, transforming the way researchers work. Yet, for those seeking to develop new drugs to treat human disease, the task of assembling a coherent…

Open PHACTS welcomes two new Associated Partners

On September 18, 2012, Posted by , In News, By ,,, , With Comments Off on Open PHACTS welcomes two new Associated Partners

Open PHACTS extends a warm welcome to our new Associated Partners the Global Health Equity Foundation and Orphanet. A full list of Associated Partners can be found here. Find out more about how you can get involved with Open PHACTS!

Press Release: OpenLink Software joins the Open PHACTS project

On September 13, 2012, Posted by , In Press Releases, By ,, , With Comments Off on Press Release: OpenLink Software joins the Open PHACTS project

(PDF) Cambridge, UK – The Open PHACTS consortium is pleased to announce a new project partner. OpenLink Software has been selected to be the Linked Data hosting provider for the online Open PHACTS platform, leveraging its well known experience in hosting high-performance and scalable linked data spaces via its Virtuoso platform for…

Conference: ECCB 2012

On September 12, 2012, Posted by , In Conferences, By ,,, , With Comments Off on Conference: ECCB 2012

11th European Conference on Computational Biology, Basel, Switzerland NBIC was an exhibitor at the conference

Open PHACTS welcomes two new Associated Partners

On September 9, 2012, Posted by , In News, By ,,, , With Comments Off on Open PHACTS welcomes two new Associated Partners

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

Conference: I-SEMANTICS 2012

On September 7, 2012, Posted by , In Conferences, By ,, , With Comments Off on Conference: I-SEMANTICS 2012

I-SEMANTICS 2012: 8th International Conference on Semantic Systems, Graz, Austria Open PHACTS was represented at this conference

Conference: Drug Discovery 2012

On September 6, 2012, Posted by , In Conferences, By ,, , With Comments Off on Conference: Drug Discovery 2012

Drug Discovery 2012: 6th Annual Drug Discovery Conference, Manchester, UK Steffen Renner (Novartis) gave a presentation: Open PHACTS: A novel platform for integrated data-driven drug discovery

Conference: EFMC-ISMC 2012

On September 5, 2012, Posted by , In Conferences, By ,,, , With Comments Off on Conference: EFMC-ISMC 2012

EFMC-ISMC 2012, XXII International Symposium on Medicinal Chemistry, Berlin, Germany Open PHACTS hosted an exhibition booth and presented a poster: Open PHACTS Use Cases

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

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…

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

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,…

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…

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)

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…