Conference: Trends in natural products research

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Young scientists’ meeting of PSE and the Austrian Pharmaceutical Society (ÖPhG), Tyrolia, Austria Gerhard Ecker (University of Vienna) demonstrated Open PHACTS at a workshop titled “The power of open data”

Presentation: The Open Pharmacological Concepts Triple Store

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Translational Knowledge Management in Pharmaceutical R&D, Brussels, Belgium Gerhard Ecker (University of Vienna) View presentation

Conference: Translational Knowledge Management in Pharmaceutical R&D

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Translational Knowledge Management in Pharmaceutical R&D, Brussels, Belgium Gerhard Ecker (University of Vienna) gave a presentation: The Open Pharmacological Concepts Triple Store

Conference: VIIIth Joint Meeting on Medicinal Chemistry

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VIIIth Joint Meeting on Medicinal Chemistry, Lublin, Poland Gerhard Ecker (University of Vienna) presented Open PHACTS

Publication: Scientific competency questions as the basis for semantically enriched open pharmacological space development

Molecular information systems play an important part in modern data-driven drug discovery. They do not only support decision making but also enable new discoveries via association and inference. In this review, we outline the scientific requirements identified by the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) Open PHACTS consortium for the design of…

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

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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

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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”

Publication: Molecular Informatics Special Issue: Open Innovation in Drug Discovery

Several publications about Open PHACTS were included in this Special Issue of Molecular Informatics. Open Innovation in Drug Discovery. Gerhard F. Ecker, Bryn Williams-Jones; Molecular Informatics 31: 519–520 Taking Open Innovation to the Molecular Level – Strengths and Limitations. Barbara Zdrazil, Niklas Blomberg, Gerhard F. Ecker; Molecular Informatics 31: 528–535 PharmaTrek: A Semantic Web Explorer for Open Innovation in Multitarget…

Publication: Open PHACTS: Semantic interoperability for drug discovery

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Open PHACTS is a public–private partnership between academia, publishers, small and medium sized enterprises and pharmaceutical companies. The goal of the project is to deliver and sustain an ‘open pharmacological space’ using and enhancing state-of-the-art semantic web standards and technologies. It is focused on practical and robust applications to solve…

Conference: IMI Stakeholder Forum

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IMI Stakeholder Forum 2012, Brussels, Belgium Gerhard Ecker (University of Vienna) and Bryn Williams-Jones (Connected Discovery) gave a presentation: The Open Pharmacological Concepts Triple Store

Presentation: The Open Pharmacological Concepts Triple Store

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IMI Stakeholder Forum 2012, Brussels, Belgium Bryn Williams-Jones (Connected Discovery), Gerhard Ecker (University of Vienna) View presentation

2nd Open PHACTS Community Workshop

Working with Open PHACTS (London, UK)

Press Release: Semantic ‘lego’: an information framework to drive drug discovery

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(PDF) Vienna, Austria – A new consortium of European organisations unite to support next generation drug discovery by providing a single view across data sources, bringing the semantic web to drug discovery. The Open PHACTS consortium, funded by the Innovative Medicines Initiative, will reduce the barriers to drug discovery by applying semantic…

Publication: Knowledge Driven Drug Discovery goes Semantic

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While the availability of freely accessible information sources relevant to medicinal chemistry and drug discovery has grown over the past few years, the knowledge management challenges of this data have also grown enormously: how to get consistent answers, how to manage different interfaces, how to judge data quality, and how…