Helium for Excel Community uses the API
The June release of the Helium for Excel Community Edition from Ceiba Solutionscontains three functions that use the Open PHACTS API. This short video shows what these functions do.
Open PHACTS featured in ChEMBL blog
Open PHACTS has been featured in the ChEMBL blog: Open PHACTS KNIME and Pipeline Pilot Components.
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 Explorer update
Updates to the Open PHACTS Explorer have been implemented. Try the improved Open PHACTS Explorer and let us know what you think.
AQnowledge Bookmarklet links to Open PHACTS Explorer
The browser-based bookmarklet developed by AQnowledge identifies significant entities in scientific text, and provides links to further information such as the corresponding entry in the Open PHACTS Explorer. More information can be found on the AQnowledge semantic knowledge navigation page.
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.
First version of Pipeline Pilot component collection
The first version of a Pipeline Pilot component collection can be found and downloaded from the Accelrys Community website. If you are a Pipeline Pilot user, please join the Open PHACTS group of the Accelrys Community.
Invitation to Open PHACTS training event
We kindly invite you to the Open PHACTS training event on 19–20 September, 2013, linked to the Vienna Summer School for drug design which takes place from 15–20 September, 2013. The Open PHACTS training event will start on Thursday at 14:00 with a talk giving an overview on the power…
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…
Open PHACTS featured in blog posts
Open PHACTS has been featured on the ChEMBL and Corante blogs: ChEMBL blog: Direct submissions of data to ChEMBL and the Open PHACTS project by Stefan Senger Corante blog: In the Pipeline: Why Not Share More Bioactivity Data? by Derek Lowe
Open PHACTS featured in RSC News article
Open PHACTS has been featured in the Royal Society of Chemistry news article Big data in drug discovery.
PharmaTrek officially released
It is our pleasure to announce that PharmaTrek, one of the Example Applications developed within the project, has been officially released. To get started watch the demo video. Find out more about PharmaTrek and other example applications
ChemBioNavigator launched
We are proud to announce that ChemBioNavigator, one of the Example Applications developed within the project, has been launched. Try out ChemBioNavigator now ChemBioNavigator allows the user to visualise the chemical and biological space of a molecule group in a chemically-aware manner. The physicochemical properties of molecular groups can be plotted against…
New Open PHACTS brochure
Find out more about Open PHACTS in our new informative brochure: Integrating pharmacological data: For scientists; for software and application developers; a semantic data integration infrastructure
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….
ChEMBL RDF Workshop held
The ChEMBL database is one of the most important sources of open drug discovery data and is a key part of linked data in the biomedical domain. Last week members of the Open PHACTS team, which includes the ChEMBL group, met at the EBI in Cambridge for a 2 day…
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…
Open PHACTS YouTube channel
Take a look at the Open PHACTS YouTube channel for Open PHACTS tutorials, and a video of the working, proof-of-concept Open PHACTS iPhone app!
4th Open PHACTS Community Workshop agenda
The next Open PHACTS Community Workshop will be held on 22–23 April, 2013 in London. 4th Open PHACTS Community Workshop agenda
4th Open PHACTS Community Workshop announced
Using the power of Open PHACTS: 4th Community Workshop 22-23 April 2013, Chemistry Centre, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London This workshop will informe 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…
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…
Second Open PHACTS Workshop held
On 16-17 April 2012 the 2nd Open PHACTS Community Workshop was held at the RSC‘s Chemistry Centre, Burlington House, London. This workshop provided an understanding of the scientific and technical background to Open PHACTS, featured the current status, and gave the opportunity to discuss particular issues around data integration, licensing and…
Version 0.2 of Open PHACTS released to whole consortium
Version 0.2 of the Open PHACTS Core platform and GUI has just been released to the whole consortium for testing. The project is on track to deliver the first public release later this year!
Chemistry’s web of data expands
Open PHACTS is mentioned in Richard van Noorden’s article in Nature: Chemistry’s web of data expands