Publication: Medicinal chemistry in the era of big data

On July 14, 2015, Posted by , In Publications, By ,, , With Comments Off on Publication: Medicinal chemistry in the era of big data

In the era of big data medicinal chemists are exposed to an enormous amount of bioactivity data. Numerous public data sources allow for querying across medium to large data sets mostly compiled from literature. However, the data available are still quite incomplete and of mixed quality. This mini review will…

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Publication: The Application of the Open Pharmacological Concepts Triple Store (Open PHACTS) to Support Drug Discovery Research

On December 18, 2014, Posted by , In Publications, By ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, , With Comments Off on Publication: The Application of the Open Pharmacological Concepts Triple Store (Open PHACTS) to Support Drug Discovery Research

Integration of open access, curated, high-quality information from multiple disciplines in the Life and Biomedical Sciences provides a holistic understanding of the domain. Additionally, the effective linking of diverse data sources can unearth hidden relationships and guide potential research strategies. However, given the lack of consistency between descriptors and identifiers…

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6th Open PHACTS Community Workshop

On June 26, 2014, Posted by , In Community Workshops, By ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, , With Comments Off on 6th Open PHACTS Community Workshop

Open PHACTS for Academia: Using the Open PHACTS Discovery Platform in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching (London, UK)

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Publication: Exploiting open data: a new era in pharmacoinformatics

On March 1, 2014, Posted by , In Publications, By ,,,,, , With Comments Off on Publication: Exploiting open data: a new era in pharmacoinformatics

Within the last decade open data concepts has been gaining increasing interest in the area of drug discovery. With the launch of ChEMBL and PubChem, an enormous amount of bioactivity data was made easily accessible to the public domain. In addition, platforms that semantically integrate those data, such as the…

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