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…
Open PHACTS welcomes IUPHAR-DB as an Associated Partner
Open PHACTS extends a warm welcome to our new Associated Partner IUPHAR-DB (University of Edinburgh). A full list of Associated Partners can be found here. Find out more about how you can get involved with Open PHACTS!
Conference: ICBO 2012
ICBO 2012: 3rd International Conference on Biomedical Ontology, Graz, Austria Rishi Ramgolam (AQnowledge) presented a paper: The Pharmacology Workspace: A Platform for Drug Discovery
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…
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…
Open PHACTS welcomes Sage Bionetworks as an Associated Partner
Open PHACTS extends a warm welcome to our new Associated Partner Sage Bionetworks. A full list of Associated Partners can be found here. Find out more about how you can get involved with Open PHACTS!
Press Release: Five new partners join Open PHACTS
(PDF) The Open PHACTS consortium is pleased to announce that ConnectedDiscovery, the European Bioinformatics Institute, Janssen, the Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre, and the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics have joined the project as new consortium members. The addition of these partners – bringing together respected drug discovery and bioinformatics expertise from academic institutions,…
Project Meeting: Hackathon
Hackathon (Manchester, UK)
Conference: IMI Stakeholder Forum
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
IMI Stakeholder Forum 2012, Brussels, Belgium Bryn Williams-Jones (Connected Discovery), Gerhard Ecker (University of Vienna) View presentation
Conference: 6th European Conference on Rare Diseases
6th European Conference on Rare Diseases & Orphan Products, Brussels, Belgium Richard Kidd (Royal Society of Chemistry) and Marco Roos (LUMC) gave a presentation: Making rare diseases visible for research and public health
Project Meeting: Workpackage Leader Group
3rd Workpackage Leader Group meeting (Manchester, UK)
Project Meeting: Useathon
Useathon (Manchester, UK)
Press Release: ACD/Labs becomes an Associate Partner of the Open PHACTS project
(PDF) The Open PHACTS consortium is pleased to announce an Associate Partner relationship with Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc. (ACD/Labs) who will be supplying a number of predicted physicochemical properties for inclusion within the project data. ACD/Labs is one of the primary suppliers of prediction algorithms to the life sciences industry and…
Gold Sponsor at EKAW 2012
Open PHACTS will act as a Gold Sponsor at EKAW 2012 in Galway City, Ireland from 8–12 October, 2012. The 18th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management is concerned with all aspects of eliciting, acquiring, modeling and managing knowledge, and its role in the construction of knowledge-intensive systems and…
Open PHACTS and W3C Provenance
Making sure that we can properly track and present the provenance of the data used in the Open PHACTS platform (i.e. where and whom it came from) is key to the vision of the project. To help ensure this information is open and can be exchanged in a standard and interoperable…
Open PHACTS Milestone 3 released
Open PHACTS releases Milestone 3: First working release demonstrate use, associate partners enlisted and integrated. You can find Milestone 3 and other public project documents here.
Open PHACTS releases first nanopublication guidelines
The Open PHACTS consortium has put together a set of guidelines on nanopublications. A nanopublication is the smallest unit of publishable information: an assertion about anything that can be uniquely identified and attributed to its author. The Open PHACTS project plans to use nanopublications in its Open Pharmacological Space (OPS)…
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…
Press Release: Open PHACTS releases nanopublication guidelines
(PDF) Aims & Scope of this Guidelines This document outlines the relationship between the Open PHACTS System (OPS, see http://www.openphacts.org/) and a semantic data model called nanopublications. The primary aim is to define the format and organisation of nanopublications suitable for inclusion in OPS. This document also clarifies the relationship…
Project Meeting: Data
Data (Manchester, UK)
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!
Open PHACTS welcomes Code-N as an Associated Partner
Open PHACTS extends a warm welcome to our new Associated Partner Code-N. A full list of Associated Partners can be found here. Find out more about how you can get involved with Open PHACTS!
Project Meeting: Workshop
Results table specification (tech-drive coordination) (Basel, Switzerland)