Publication: Using the BioAssy Ontology for Analyzing High-Throughput Screening Data
High-throughput screening (HTS) is the main starting point for hit identification in drug discovery programs. This has led to a rapid increase of available screening data both within pharmaceutical companies and the public domain. We have used the BioAssay Ontology (BAO) 2.0 for assay annotation within AstraZeneca to enable comparison…
Job Opportunity: OPF Technical and Strategic Coordinator
An exciting opportunity for an experienced pharma/life-science professional to join the Open PHACTS Foundation as technical strategic co-ordinator. For more information, please see the job listing.
Open PHACTS added to the OMICtools directory
Open PHACTS has been added to the OMICtools directory of resources for biomedical researchers: http://omictools.com/open-phacts-s7428.html
Conference: DTL On Track
DTL On Track (DTL and ELIXIR-NL kickoff), Amersfoort, the Netherlands Paul Groth (VU University Amsterdam) represented Open PHACTS
Conference: EKAW 2014
EKAW 2014, The 19th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, Linköping, Sweden Stefan Schlobach (VU University Amsterdam) represented Open PHACTS
Human Proteome data in RDF format
We are excited that Open PHACTS team members’ experience helped make Human Proteome data available in RDF format: http://www.proteinatlas.org/about/download
Conference: Bring Your Own Data: Rare Disease Registries
Bring Your Own Data: Rare Disease Registries (and biobanks), Rome, Italy Núria Queralt-Rosinach (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute) attended as a linked data expert
Open PHACTS Foundation participates in Horizon 2020
The Open PHACTS Foundation will be participating in Big Data Europe’s Horizon 2020 project, which aims to integrate existing big data infrastructures into an extensible stack of semantically interoperable, large-scale, multi-lingual data assets. Part of the Foundation’s role will involve running pilots on services combining data and functionalities from the Open…
Conference: 6th Spanish Drug Discovery Network (SDDN) Meeting
6th Spanish Drug Discovery Network (SDDN) Meeting, Madrid, Spain Bryn Williams-Jones (Connected Discovery) gave a presentation: The Open PHACTS Discovery Platform: Semantic Data Integration for Life Sciences
Presentation: The Open PHACTS Discovery Platform: Semantic Data Integration for Life Sciences
6th Spanish Drug Discovery Network (SDDN) Meeting, Madrid, Spain Bryn Williams-Jones (Connected Discovery) View presentation
Publication: Drug Discovery FAQs: Workflows for answering cross concept drug discovery questions
Modern data-driven drug discovery requires integrated resources to support decision-making and enable new discoveries. The Open PHACTS Discovery Platform (http://dev.openphacts.org) was built to address this requirement by focusing on drug discovery questions that are of high priority to the pharmaceutical industry. Although complex, most of these frequently asked questions (FAQs)…
Publication: On the formulation of performant SPARQL queries
The combination of the flexibility of RDF and the expressiveness of SPARQL provides a powerful mechanism to model, integrate and query data. However, these properties also mean that it is nontrivial to write performant SPARQL queries. Indeed, it is quite easy to create queries that tax even the most optimised…
Conference: BrazMedChem 2014
BrazMedChem 2014, the 7th Brazilian Symposium on Medicinal Chemistry, Campos do Jordão, Brazil Antony Williams (Royal Society of Chemistry) represented Open PHACTS
Open PHACTS API: 40 million hits in November
An amazing new record – over 40 million hits were recorded on the Open PHACTS API in November 2014! Find out more about the API at dev.openphacts.org,
Project Meeting: Project & Science Forum
Open PHACTS Project & Science Forum (Mölndal, Sweden)
Project Meeting: Steering Committee
8th Steering Committee meeting (Mölndal, Sweden)
Conference: SICSA DEMOfest 2014
SICSA DEMOfest 2014, Edinburgh, UK Alasdair Gray (Heriot-Watt University) gave a presentation: The Open PHACTS Discovery Platform
Presentation: The Open PHACTS Discovery Platform
SICSA DEMOfest 2014, Edinburgh, UK Alasdair Gray (Heriot-Watt University) View presentation
Open PHACTS welcomes EdgeLeap as an Associated Partner
Open PHACTS extends a warm welcome to our new Associated Partner EdgeLeap. A full list of Associated Partners can be found here. Find out more about how you can get involved with Open PHACTS!
Conference: Drug Discovery USA Congress 2014
Drug Discovery USA Congress 2014, Boston, USA Tom Plasterer (AstraZeneca) gave a presentation: The Big Data Integration Myth
Presentation: Help me describe my data: A demonstration of the Open PHACTS VoID Editor
ISWC 2014, The 13th International Semantic Web Conference, Trentino, Italy Alasdair Gray (Heriot-Watt University) View presentation | Paper
Presentation: Capturing Provenance for a Linkset of Convenience
ISWC 2014, The 13th International Semantic Web Conference, Trentino, Italy Simon Jupp (European Bioinformatics Institute) View presentation
Presentation: Scientific Lenses to Support Multiple Views over Linked Chemistry Data
ISWC 2014, The 13th International Semantic Web Conference, Trentino, Italy Alasdair Gray (Heriot-Watt University) View presentation See also: Full publication: Scientific Lenses to Support Multiple Views over Linked Chemistry Data
Presentation: A Justification-based Semantic Framework for Representing, Evaluating and Utilizing Terminology Mappings
ISWC 2014, The 13th International Semantic Web Conference, Trentino, Italy Kerstin Forsberg (AstraZeneca) View presentation
Publication: Scientific Lenses to Support Multiple Views over Linked Chemistry Data
When are two entries about a small molecule in different datasets the same? If they have the same drug name, chemical structure, or some other criteria? The choice depends upon the application to which the data will be put. However, existing Linked Data approaches provide a single global view over…
Conference: ISWC 2014
ISWC 2014, The 13th International Semantic Web Conference, Trentino, Italy The Open PHACTS Foundation sponsored this conference, and Open PHACTS representatives gave several presentations
Conference: IMI 2 Open Info Day
IMI 2 Open Info Day, Brussels, Belgium Christine Chichester (Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics) represented Open PHACTS.