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Press Release: Open PHACTS wins Linked Open Data Award in inaugural European Linked Data Contest

On September 18, 2015, Posted by , In Press Releases, By ,,, , With Comments Off on Press Release: Open PHACTS wins Linked Open Data Award in inaugural European Linked Data Contest

(PDF) Vienna, Austria – The Open PHACTS consortium is proud to have been awarded first prize in the Linked Open Data Award category of the European Linked Data Contest (ELDC). The ELDC has been established to recognise Europe’s crème de la crème of linked data and semantic web achievements. Prizes are awarded…

Open PHACTS wins the European Linked Data Contest

On September 16, 2015, Posted by , In News, By ,,,,, , With Comments Off on Open PHACTS wins the European Linked Data Contest

Open PHACTS has been awarded first place in the Linked Open Data Award of the inaugural European Linked Data Contest (ELDC).

Conference: 24th Scientific Congress of OePhG

On September 14, 2015, Posted by , In Conferences, By ,,,,, , With Comments Off on Conference: 24th Scientific Congress of OePhG

24th Scientific Congress of the Austrian Pharmaceutical Society (OePhG), Vienna, Austria Daniela Digles (University of Vienna) gave a presentation: An Open PHACTS KNIME workflow to collect compound data from public databases

Presentation: An Open PHACTS KNIME workflow to collect compound data from public databases

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24th Scientific Congress of the Austrian Pharmaceutical Society (OePhG), Vienna, Austria Daniela Digles (University of Vienna) View presentation

Presentation: Open, reusable graph annotations

On September 13, 2015, Posted by , In Presentations, By ,,,, , With Comments Off on Presentation: Open, reusable graph annotations

BioHackathon 2015 Symbosium, Nagasaki, Japan Mark Thompson (Leiden University Medical Centre) View presentation  

Conference: BioHackathon 2015

On September 13, 2015, Posted by , In Conferences, By ,,,,,,, , With Comments Off on Conference: BioHackathon 2015

BioHackathon 2015 Symposium, Nagasaki, Japan Núria Queralt-Rosinach (IMIM) gave a presentation: The DisGeNET Discovery Platform Mark Thompson (Leiden University Medical Centre) gave a presentation: Open, reusable graph annotations

Presentation: The DisGeNET Discovery Platform

On September 13, 2015, Posted by , In Presentations, By ,,,, , With Comments Off on Presentation: The DisGeNET Discovery Platform

BioHackathon 2015 Symposium, Nagasaki, Japan Núria Queralt-Rosinach (IMIM) View presentation

Conference: 8th SFB35 Symposium 2015

On September 9, 2015, Posted by , In Conferences, By ,,, , With Comments Off on Conference: 8th SFB35 Symposium 2015

8th SFB35 Symposium 2015, Vienna, Austria Floriane Montanari and Barbara Zdrazil (University of Vienna) presented a poster: Discriminating P-gp from BCRP inhibitory activity by multi-class classification models

Poster: Discriminating P-gp from BCRP inhibitory activity by multi-class classification models

On September 9, 2015, Posted by , In Posters, By ,, , With Comments Off on Poster: Discriminating P-gp from BCRP inhibitory activity by multi-class classification models

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DNAdigest interviews Open PHACTS

On August 24, 2015, Posted by , In News, By ,,, , With Comments Off on DNAdigest interviews Open PHACTS

Open PHACTS Foundation CTO Nick Lynch recently spoke to DNAdigest about the benefits that Open PHACTS can offer researchers, as well as about the issues of limited data sharing and ethical data sharing in life sciences. You can read the full interview at DNAdigest’s website.

DisGeNET v3.0 RDF now available

On August 24, 2015, Posted by , In News, By ,,,,,, , With Comments Off on DisGeNET v3.0 RDF now available

DisGeNET has just announced their latest RDF release, including: More GDAs comprising 17 000 genes and more than 14 000 diseases as linked data in the Semantic Web New disease-phenotype annotation data from the Human Phenotype Ontology New linksets A new full metadata description of the dataset compliant with the…

Presentation: SureChEMBL: An open patent chemistry resource

On August 20, 2015, Posted by , In Presentations, With Comments Off on Presentation: SureChEMBL: An open patent chemistry resource

250th ACS National Meeting & Exposition, Boston, USA George Papadatos (EMBL-EBI) View presentation

Presentation: Topliss batchwise scheme reviewed in the era of Open Data

On August 20, 2015, Posted by , In Presentations, By ,,, , With Comments Off on Presentation: Topliss batchwise scheme reviewed in the era of Open Data

250th ACS National Meeting & Exposition, Boston, USA Gerhard Ecker (University of Vienna) View presentation

Presentation: Workflow-based data integration for drug discovery

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250th ACS National Meeting & Exposition, Boston, USA Richard Kidd (Royal Society of Chemistry) View presentation

Conference: 250th ACS National Meeting & Exposition

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250th ACS National Meeting & Exposition, Boston, USA Richard Kidd (Royal Society of Chemistry) gave a presentation: Workflow-based data integration for drug discovery Gerhard Ecker (University of Vienna) gave a presentation: Topliss batchwise scheme reviewed in the era of Open Data George Papadatos (EMBL-EBI) gave a presentation: SureChEMBL: An open patent chemistry…

Node.js library OPS.js now available

On July 27, 2015, Posted by , In News, By ,, , With Comments Off on Node.js library OPS.js now available

OPS.js is a JavaScript library you can use to fetch and parse responses from the Open PHACTS API. It is now available via the Node Package Manager which means that anyone using Node-based JavaScript applications can easily include it. It is also available as a single file download for standard…

Biological annotations in SureChEMBL

On July 24, 2015, Posted by , In News, By ,,,,,, , With Comments Off on Biological annotations in SureChEMBL

Biological patent annotations are now displayed on the SureChEMBL interface. In collaboration with Open PHACTS and SciBite, the EBI have implemented a mechanism to allow users to highlight biological entities (such as genes and diseases) within SureChEMBL patent documents. For more information see the SureChEMBL blog. This is a first step towards full integration…

Conference: Gordon Research Conference on Computer Aided Drug Design

On July 23, 2015, Posted by , In Conferences, By ,,, , With Comments Off on Conference: Gordon Research Conference on Computer Aided Drug Design

Gordon Research Conference on Computer Aided Drug Design, West Dover, USA Barbara Zdrazil (University of Vienna) presented a poster: Assessing multi target SAR by using pharmacological and pathway data from the public domain

Poster: Assessing multi target SAR by using pharmacological and pathway data from the public domain

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Gordon Research Conference on Computer Aided Drug Design, West Dover, USA View poster

ChemBioNavigator Webinar

On July 17, 2015, Posted by , In News, By ,, , With Comments Off on ChemBioNavigator Webinar

ChemBioNavigator is a web application that was specifically designed to visualise the small-molecule and pharmacological data integrated by Open PHACTS. Last week BioSolveIT hosted a webinar showing how ChemBioNavigator can be used to: discover new target-compound interactions identify multi-target as well as target-specific compound sets retrieve small-molecule data from a variety…

Project Meeting: Tech Team

On July 15, 2015, Posted by , In Project Meetings, By , With Comments Off on Project Meeting: Tech Team

Tech Team Meeting (Amsterdam, the Netherlands)

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…

Conference: Bioinformatics Open Source Conference 2015

On July 11, 2015, Posted by , In Conferences, By , , With Comments Off on Conference: Bioinformatics Open Source Conference 2015

Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) 2015, Dublin, Ireland Ian Dunlop (University of Manchester) gave a lightning presentation: Visualising Open PHACTS linked data with widgets

Presentation: Visualising Open PHACTS linked data with widgets

On July 11, 2015, Posted by , In Presentations, By ,,,, , With Comments Off on Presentation: Visualising Open PHACTS linked data with widgets

Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) 2015, Dublin, Ireland Ian Dunlop (University of Manchester) Watch presentation video | View presentation slides

Pipeline Pilot Component Collection 1.5 Released

On July 10, 2015, Posted by , In News, By ,, , With Comments Off on Pipeline Pilot Component Collection 1.5 Released

We are pleased to announce the release of version 1.5 of the Open PHACTS component collection. There are no major changes to the components, but this version is needed to connect to version 1.5 of the Open PHACTS API, which has refreshed data and several other improvements. Version 1.5 of the Open PHACTS…

Open PHACTS API Milestone

On June 26, 2015, Posted by , In News, By ,, , With Comments Off on Open PHACTS API Milestone

The Open PHACTS Discovery Platform passed an exciting milestone this month of having served over 250,000,000 hits since it passed into production in 2013. Our API is averaging over 25 million hits a month, and is now at version 1.5. If you would like information about moving to API version 1.5, please get…

Publication: The Chemical Validation and Standardization Platform (CVSP): large-scale automated validation of chemical structure datasets

On June 19, 2015, Posted by , In Publications, By ,,,,, , With Comments Off on Publication: The Chemical Validation and Standardization Platform (CVSP): large-scale automated validation of chemical structure datasets

There are presently hundreds of online databases hosting millions of chemical compounds and associated data. As a result of the number of cheminformatics software tools that can be used to produce the data, subtle differences between the various cheminformatics platforms, as well as the naivety of the software users, there…

Open PHACTS now operational

On June 9, 2015, Posted by , In News, By ,, , With Comments Off on Open PHACTS now operational

The Open PHACTS API and other services (Explorer) have been restored early this morning. We have done some testing on this and things seem to be back to normal. Thank you for your patience during the outage. We are carrying out an analysis on the outage and will report back….

Open PHACTS temporarily unavailable

On June 8, 2015, Posted by , In News, By ,, , With Comments Off on Open PHACTS temporarily unavailable

Update: Service has been restored as of 9 June 2015, with both the API and Explorer back online. Apologies for any inconvenience caused by this downtime. On Sunday 7 June our Open PHACTS & API hosting environment suffered a major hardware fault. As a result the Open PHACTS API and…

Project Meeting: ENSO & Technical Coordination

On June 3, 2015, Posted by , In Project Meetings, By , , With Comments Off on Project Meeting: ENSO & Technical Coordination

ENSO & Technical coordination meeting (London, UK)