Publication: The Pharmacology Workspace: A Platform for Drug Discovery

We present the Open PHACTS linked data platform that is being developed to address a set of example drug discovery research questions and which supports several drug discovery applications. The platform retrieves data from many complementary, but overlapping, data sources to present an integrated view of the data. The platform…

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…

Publication: Representing Text Mining Results for Structured Pharmacological Queries

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Several approaches integrating life science data using Semantic Web technologies have been described in the literature. However, these approaches have largely ignored the vast amount of content only available within the scientific literature. In this article, we present an RDF schema for text mining results that enables queries in SPARQL…

Publication: The Value of Data

Data citation and the derivation of semantic constructs directly from datasets have now both found their place in scientific communication. The social challenge facing us is to maintain the value of traditional narrative publications and their relationship to the datasets they report upon while at the same time developing appropriate…