
Webinar: Open source software components for chemistry standardisation
Antony Williams (EPA, previously RSC and ChemSpider) and Valery Tkachenko (RSC, previously ChemSpider) discuss the need for mechanisms for the standardisation and validation of chemical structure data, and the development and implementation of a system of software components to achieve this within the Open PHACTS Discovery Platform. Watch webinar video | View…
Webinar: Open source software components for chemistry standardisation
Our Science and Open PHACTS webinar series returns on 24 October, following our summer break. This month we will discuss the key chemistry software components and datasets that underpin the Open PHACTS Discovery Platform, which are now available as open source software components. Webinar: Science and Open PHACTS: Open source software components…
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…
Conference: SmartLab Exchange 2015
SmartLab Exchange 2015, Philadelphia, USA Antony Williams (Royal Society of Chemistry) contributed to a keynote panel: Transform Your Data into Knowledge: How to Use Data to Drive Intelligence and Improve R&D Productivity
Conference: NIA Alzheimer’s Disease Research Summit 2015
NIA Alzheimer’s Disease Research Summit 2015, Bethesda, USA Antony Williams (Royal Society of Chemistry) represented Open PHACTS
Conference: BrazMedChem 2014
BrazMedChem 2014, the 7th Brazilian Symposium on Medicinal Chemistry, Campos do Jordão, Brazil Antony Williams (Royal Society of Chemistry) represented Open PHACTS
Publication: Scientific Lenses to Support Multiple Views over Linked Chemistry Data
When are two entries about a small molecule in different datasets the same? If they have the same drug name, chemical structure, or some other criteria? The choice depends upon the application to which the data will be put. However, existing Linked Data approaches provide a single global view over…
Conference: 248th ACS National Meeting & Exposition
248th ACS National Meeting & Exposition, San Francisco, USA Antony Williams (Royal Society of Chemistry) gave a presentation: Open innovation contributions from RSC resulting from the Open Phacts project
Presentation: Open innovation contributions from RSC resulting from the Open Phacts project
248th ACS National Meeting & Exposition, San Francisco, USA Antony Williams (Royal Society of Chemistry) View presentation
Publication: Applying Linked Data Approaches to Pharmacology: Architectural Decisions and Implementation
The discovery of new medicines requires pharmacologists to interact with a number of information sources ranging from tabular data to scientific papers, and other specialized formats. In this application report, we describe a linked data platform for integrating multiple pharmacology datasets that form the basis for several drug discovery applications….
Publication: Incorporating private and commercial data into an open linked data platform for drug discovery
The Open PHACTS Discovery Platform aims to provide an integrated information space to advance pharmacological research in the area of drug discovery. Effective drug discovery requires comprehensive data coverage, i.e. integrating all available sources of pharmacology data. While many relevant data sources are available on the linked open data cloud,…
Conference: NETTAB 2013
NETTAB 2013, Venice Lido, Italy Antony Williams (Royal Society of Chemistry) gave a presentation: Facilitating Scientific Discovery through Crowdsourcing and Distributed Participation Christine Chichester (Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics) gave a presentation: Mobile semantic technologies using Open PHACTS
Presentation: Facilitating Scientific Discovery through Crowdsourcing and Distributed Participation
NETTAB 2013, Venice Lido, Italy Antony Williams (Royal Society of Chemistry) View presentation
Presentation: Practical semantics in the pharmaceutical industry – the Open PHACTS project
246th ACS National Meeting & Exposition, Indianapolis, USA Antony Williams (Royal Society of Chemistry) View presentation
Conference: 246th ACS National Meeting & Exposition
246th ACS National Meeting & Exposition, Indianapolis, USA Antony Williams (Royal Society of Chemistry) gave a presentation: Practical semantics in the pharmaceutical industry – the Open PHACTS project
Poster: Scientific Lenses: An Approach to Dynamically Vary the Relationships between Datasets
2013 ISMB/ECCB Conference, Berlin, Germany View poster
Publication: Scientific Lenses over Linked Data: An approach to support task specific views of the data. A vision.
Within complex scientific domains such as pharmacology, operational equivalence between two concepts is often context-, user- and task-specific. Existing Linked Data integration procedures and equivalence services do not take the context and task of the user into account. We present a vision for enabling users to control the notion of operational…
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…
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…
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…
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”
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,…
Presentation: Integrating and curating internet based chemistry resources to serve life scientists
PharmSciFair 2011, Prague, Czech Republic Antony Williams (Royal Society of Chemistry) View presentation