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)
Chemistry’s web of data expands
Open PHACTS is mentioned in Richard van Noorden’s article in Nature: Chemistry’s web of data expands
Call for new partner for hosting Open PHACTS
The Open PHACTS Consortium is looking for a partner specialised in hosting of large scale semantic infrastructure. Deadline for application is 2 May 2012, 17:00 CEST.
Project Meeting: Sustainability
MTF Sustainability (Vienna, Austria)
Open PHACTS welcomes three new Associated Partners
Open PHACTS extends a warm welcome to our new Associated Partners Aureus Sciences, GVK Bio and Thomson Reuters. A full list of Associated Partners can be found here. Find out more about how you can get involved with Open PHACTS!
Tender for OPS licensing and IP issues
The Open PHACTS Consortium is looking for Consultancy Services for Open PHACTS licensing and IP issues. Send your application by 16 April 2012. Full details
Publication: Towards a gold standard: regarding quality in public domain chemistry databases and approaches to improving the situation
In recent years there has been a dramatic increase in the number of freely accessible online databases serving the chemistry community. The internet provides chemistry data that can be used for data-mining, for computer models, and integration into systems to aid drug discovery. There is however a responsibility to ensure…
Presentation: Open PHACTS: an introduction and explanation
Information on the Open PHACTS Project View presentation
3rd Steering Committe Meeting held
The 3rd Steering Committee Meeting was held successfully in Stevenage, UK. The Open PHACTS system will be released internally in March; the project as a whole is on track!
Project Meeting: Steering Committee
3rd Steering Committee meeting (Stevenage, UK)
Publication: The Innovative Medicines Initiative: A European Response to the Innovation Challenge
The Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) was launched in 2008 as a large-scale public–private partnership between the European Commission and the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA). With a total budget of €2 billion, the IMI aims to boost the development of new medicines across Europe by implementing new…
Publication: It’s all about the data: an exclusive interview with Dr. Antony J. Williams
Thousands of professionals in the life sciences and other industries rely on external chemical data in their decision matrices. Just how reliable is publicly available data? Don Alexander of Carlyle & Conlan interviewed Dr. Antony J. Williams for perspective on this issue. Antony J. Williams Full publication: Life Science Trends…
Publication: Toward interoperable bioscience data
To make full use of research data, the bioscience community needs to adopt technologies and reward mechanisms that support interoperability and promote the growth of an open ‘data commoning’ culture. Here we describe the prerequisites for data commoning and present an established and growing ecosystem of solutions using the shared…
Conference: APE 2012
APE 2012: Academic Publishing in Europe 7, Berlin, Germany Steve Pettifer (University of Manchester) held an innovation session: User-side semantic enrichment of scholarly content
Project Meeting: Workshop
Release cycle management / exemplar services (Basel, Switzerland)
Conference: ScienceOnline2012
ScienceOnline2012: Sixth annual North Carolina science blogging meeting, North Carolina State University, USA Antony Williams (Royal Society of Chemistry) led two discussions: “Dealing with Data” and “The Semantic Web”
Project Meeting: Workshop
Waitingroom Management Workshop (Heathrow, UK)
2011 Conferences
Open PHACTS had a presence at the following conferences and events in 2011: 12–13 December, 2011 Benelux Bioinformatics Conference 2011, Luxembourg 2 December, 2011 STM Innovations Seminar 2011, London, UK 28 November, 2011 Chemical Information and Computer Applications Group (CICAG) meeting: The Future Information Needs of Pharmaceutical & Medicinal Chemistry, London,…
Publication: Of possible cheminformatics futures
For over a decade, cheminformatics has contributed to a wide array of scientific tasks from analytical chemistry and biochemistry to pharmacology and drug discovery; and although its contributions to decision making are recognized, the challenge is how it would contribute to faster development of novel, better products. Here we address…
Project Meeting: Workpackage Leader Group
2nd Workpackage Leader Group meeting (Barcelona, Spain)
Project Meeting: Hackathon
Hackathon (Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
Project Meeting: Workshop
GUI Workshop (Manchester, UK)
Publication: Representing Text Mining Results for Structured Pharmacological Queries
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…
First lash-up of Open PHACTS system delivered
6 months into the project, we have produced a lash-up (early, pre-alpha prototype) of the Open PHACTS platform. Great progress from all involved! Lash-up Demo video