Open PHACTS API 1.4 released
We are excited to release Open PHACTS API version 1.4, featuring: 2 new data sets with corresponding API calls New results in Compound Information call New batch methods for Information calls Find the release notes at our support portal and try out the API at https://dev.openphacts.org.
“Open PHACTS for Academia” Community Workshop held in London
6th Open PHACTS Community Workshop London, UK – The sixth Open PHACTS Community Workshop focussed on introducing members of the academic community to the Open PHACTS Discovery Platform, and showing them how to use it within their research and teaching workflows. The morning session featured an introduction to the Open…
Open PHACTS project outputs are highly cited
The Open PHACTS Impactstory profile shows project outputs to be highly discussed, saved and cited. If you have papers, data, code or websites that you’d like to include please let the PMU know at pmu@openphacts.org.
2nd Open PHACTS Pipeline Pilot Hackathon held
On 6 March, 2014, the 2nd Open PHACTS Pipeline Pilot Hackathon took place on the Merck campus in Darmstadt, Germany. Attendees from eight different industrial and academic institutions worked on the new version 2.0 of the Open PHACTS component collection which was provided by Accelrys through financial support by Janssen Pharmaceutica….
Open PHACTS API 1.3 released
We are excited to release the Open PHACTS API 1.3. Among the features are: Over 2,900 million triples New compound API calls: drug type (approved, experimental) New pharmacology API calls: pChEMBL, assay type, generic name, literature DOI/PMID, target type and component New target info API calls: ChEMBL URIs, UniProt protein-protein interactions,…
New source of open chemistry patent data available
A major new source of open patent chemistry is now available, thanks to the collaboration between Digital Science and the EBI ChEMBL group. We are discussing how this data might be integrated with Open PHACTS and look forward to developing use cases in 2014.
“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…
Open PHACTS Support Portal Online
The Open PHACTS Support Portal is now online at support.openphacts.org.
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…
New version of dataset description guidelines
We are pleased to announce that a new version of the dataset description guidelines has just been published. The latest version, dated 12 September 2013, is available from http://www.openphacts.org/specs/datadesc/. The key goal of this revision was to simplify the description of datasets to make it is easier for providers to…
Webinar: Using the Open PHACTS API
Paul Groth (VU University Amsterdam) presents a webinar explaining how to use the Open PHACTS API: the data, technical setup, and what can be done with it. Watch presentation video | View presentation slides
Open PHACTS workflow integration portal
Pipeline Pilot components/workflows and KNIME nodes have been developed to integrate with the Open PHACTS API. The portal to these workflow integration collections can be found at dev.openphacts.org/workflow.
Press Release: Open PHACTS Community Workshop: “Using the power of Open PHACTS”
(PDF) London, UK – The Open PHACTS Community Workshop was held at Burlington House in London on April 22 and 23, 2013. The workshop was intended to feature the public release of the Open PHACTS API and the first Open PHACTS example apps, ChemBioNavigator and PharmaTrek. The event was also held…
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 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.
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….
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
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…
Open PHACTS Pipeline Pilot group
Are you a Pipeline Pilot user? If you are, why not join the Open PHACTS group on the Accelrys Community website? Open PHACTS Pipeline Pilot group If you haven’t used the Accelrys Community before, you will first have to register before you can join the group. The group has only been set up…
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…
Announcing Open PHACTS Workshop at EuroQSAR 2012
EuroQSAR 2012 in Vienna Open PHACTS Workshop “Introducing Open PHACTS” Thursday 30 August, 13:30-14:45 Presenters : L. Harland, P. Groth, C. Lemmen, L. Wich, J. Mestres, V. de la Torre This workshop will publicly present the first results of the IMI project Open PHACTS, which is producing an open, integrated…
Press Release: Eagle Genomics Ltd. becomes an associate partner of Open PHACTS project
(PDF) Cambridge, UK – The Open PHACTS consortium is pleased to announce an Associate Partner relationship with Eagle Genomcis Ltd. (Eagle). Eagle intend to work with the consortium members to interface Open PHACTS with genomics tools (e.g. the Ensembl Browser) and workflows (e.g. Hive/Galaxy), and also facilitate the integration of data from…
Open PHACTS and W3C Provenance
Making sure that we can properly track and present the provenance of the data used in the Open PHACTS platform (i.e. where and whom it came from) is key to the vision of the project. To help ensure this information is open and can be exchanged in a standard and interoperable…
Open PHACTS releases first nanopublication guidelines
The Open PHACTS consortium has put together a set of guidelines on nanopublications. A nanopublication is the smallest unit of publishable information: an assertion about anything that can be uniquely identified and attributed to its author. The Open PHACTS project plans to use nanopublications in its Open Pharmacological Space (OPS)…