In addition to building the Open PHACTS Discovery Platform, the Open PHACTS project has contributed directly to a broad range of other initiatives making important contributions to life sciences. Some examples include:
Project |
Contribution |
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| ApiNATOMY | Novel anatomical data navigation system | Development of pharmacology connected data |
| BridgeDb | Biomedical identifier mapping service | Creating an extensible approach and framework to map existing and new database identifiers, supporting data integration |
| ChEMBL | Open drug discovery platform | Working with ChEMBL to create RDF with proven interoperability, now adopted as routine RDF output |
| Chemical Validation and Standardization Platform (CVSP) | Chemical structure validation system | Building a workflow and platform to validate and standardize compound collections – ensuring quality and interoperability |
| ConceptWiki | Unified biomedical terminology system | Rebuilding the ConceptWiki to support an extensible frameworks for names, synonyms and identifiers |
| Dataset Descriptors | Open standard for describing dataset metadata & provenance | Enhancing existing standards |
| DisGeNET | Open database of gene-disease relationships | Working with DisGeNET to create RDF with proven interoperability |
| Identifiers.org | Provide standard compliant, persistent URIs for scientific data | Creating new sets of persistent URIs to expand coverage of pharmacological and chemical data |
| Identity Mapping System (IMS) | Biomedical identifier mapping service | Creating a flexible and extensible approach, and an operational service, to map the identifiers across scientific data collections enabling a single integrated view |
| jQUDT | Java library for Quantities, Units, Dimensions, Types ontology | Building on existing standards, extending applicability of QUDT to deal with quantitative pharmacological data |
| neXtProt | Open protein information database | Working with neXtProt to create RDF with proven interoperability |
| Utopia | Novel scientific PDF viewer | Development of chemistry-centric features within this advanced document viewer |
| W3C-PROV Ontology | Open core ontology for provenance on the semantic web | Funding key contributors & use case contributions, developing this standard hand-in-hand with provenance challenges within the project |
| WikiPathways | Open molecular pathways platform | Working with WikiPathways to create RDF with proven interoperability. |
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