4th Open PHACTS Community Workshop
Using the power of Open PHACTS (London, UK)
Conference: UK-QSAR Spring Meeting 2013
UK-QSAR and ChemoInformatics Group Spring Meeting 2013, Bedford, UK Marcus Gastreich (BioSolveIT) presented Open PHACTS
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.
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…
Conference: NBIC 2013
Netherlands Bioinformatics Conference 2013, Lunteren, the Netherlands Andra Waagmeester (Maastricht University) gave a presentation: Visualizing Biological Linked Open Data Anwesha Bohler (Maastricht University) gave a presentation: PathVisio3: new features for pathway analysis and visualization
Conference: Bio-Assay Ontology Workshop
Open PHACTS Bio-Assay Ontology Workshop, Miami, USA Anna Gaulton (EMBL-EBI) gave a presentation: ChEMBL bioassay data – Classification and data Exchange Mark Davies (EMBL-EBI) gave a presentation: ChEBML-RDF
Presentation: ChEMBL-RDF
Open PHACTS Bio-Assay Ontology Workshop, Miami, USA Mark Davies (EMBL-EBI) View presentation
Presentation: ChEMBL bioassay data – Classification and data exchange
Bio-Assay Ontology Workshop, Miami, USA Anna Gaulton (EMBL-EBI) View presentation
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….
Presentation: Open PHACTS: meaningful linking of preclinical drug discovery knowledge
245th ACS National Meeting & Exposition, New Orleans, USA Egon Willighagen (Maastricht University) View presentation
Conference: 245th ACS National Meeting & Exposition
245th ACS National Meeting & Exposition, New Orleans, USA Egon Willighagen (Maastricht University) gave a presentation: Open PHACTS: meaningful linking of preclinical drug discovery knowledge
Poster: Collaborative curation for identifiers.org
Biocuration 2013 – The Conference of the International Society for Biocuration, Cambridge, UK View poster
Conference: Biocuration 2013
Biocuration 2013 – The Conference of the International Society for Biocuration, Cambridge, UK Nick Juty (EMBL-EBI) presented a poster: Collaborative curation for identifiers.org
Open PHACTS welcomes OpenBEL as an Associated Partner
Open PHACTS extends a warm welcome to our new Associated Partner the OpenBEL project. A full list of Associated Partners can be found here. Find out more about how you can get involved with Open PHACTS!
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…
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…
Beyond the PDF 2 Conference
Several Open PHACTS members attended the Beyond the PDF 2 Conference, which brought together academics, publishers, funders, entrepreneurs, and industry to discuss how to change scholarly communication. Nanopublications were well represented at the conference including a preconference meeting focused on the nanopublications community. Overall, it was clear that Open PHACTS…
Project Meeting: Workshop
ChEMBL RDF Workshop (Cambridgeshire, UK)
Conference: Semantic Web Workshop
Semantic Web Workshop, Karlsruhe, Germany Open PHACTS was represented at the workshop
Conference: Joint Scientific Symposium (ASTOX, ÖPhG, ASAC, ÖGGM and CCC)
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
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”
Conference: Beyond the PDF 2
Beyond the PDF 2, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Several Open PHACTS representatives were in attendance
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!
Conference: Open Source Days 2013
Open Source Days 2013, Copenhagen, Denmark Claus Stie Kallesøe (H. Lundbeck) gave a presentation: Open Source in the Pharma and Biotech Industries
Project Meeting: Steering Committee
5th Steering Committee meeting (Basel, Switzerland)
Presentation: Enabling Drug Discovery Applications Through a Linked Data Platform
CSHALS, Conference on Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences, Boston, USA Alasdair Gray (Heriot-Watt University) Presentation details
Conference: CSHALS 2013
CSHALS, Conference on Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences, Boston, USA Alasdair Gray (Heriot-Watt University) gave a tech talk: Enabling Drug Discovery Applications Through a Linked Data Platform