Datathon: Loading data into Open PHACTS

On July 12, 2016, Posted by , In News, By ,,, , With Comments Off on Datathon: Loading data into Open PHACTS

Interested in running an Open PHACTS environment for your own company or institution? Or in improving the linked open data in the Open PHACTS Discovery Platform? Introducing Open PHACTS Datathons, a new series of free webinars that will cover everything you need to know about updating or adding to the structured…

Open PHACTS API 2.0 is here

On January 28, 2016, Posted by , In News, By ,,,,,, , With Comments Off on Open PHACTS API 2.0 is here

We’re excited to announce the official release of version 2.0 of the Open PHACTS API, along with major updates to the linked data in the Open PHACTS Discovery Platform. Try out API version 2.0 now Highlights include: Complete refresh of chemistry data sets, including ChEMBL 20 Reload and refresh of…

Publication: Managing expectations: assessment of chemistry databases generated by automated extraction of chemical structures from patents

On October 6, 2015, Posted by , In Publications, By ,,,,,, , With Comments Off on Publication: Managing expectations: assessment of chemistry databases generated by automated extraction of chemical structures from patents

First public disclosure of new chemical entities often takes place in patents, which makes them an important source of information. However, with an ever increasing number of patent applications, manual processing and curation on such a large scale becomes even more challenging. An alternative approach better suited for this large…

Conference: 4th KNIME Cheminformatics Workshop

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4th KNIME Cheminformatics Workshop, Cambridgeshire, UK Daniela Digles (University of Vienna) gave a presentation: Drug discovery FAQs: Workflows for answering multidomain drug discovery questions George Papadatos (EBML-EBI) gave a presentation: ChEMBL resources and KNIME

Presentation: ChEMBL resources and KNIME

On October 5, 2015, Posted by , In Presentations, By ,,,, , With Comments Off on Presentation: ChEMBL resources and KNIME

4th KNIME Cheminformatics Workshop, Cambridgeshire, UK George Papadatos (EMBL-EBI) View presentation

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…

Open PHACTS API version 1.5 is here!

On May 28, 2015, Posted by , In News, By ,,,, , With Comments Off on Open PHACTS API version 1.5 is here!

We’ve been working hard to update and improve the Open PHACTS Discovery Platform, and are excited to report that version 1.5 of the Open PHACTS API is now live for public use. Try out the updated API now See the full release notes at our support portal This marks the…

Project Meeting: Open PHACTS SureChEMBL & ChEMBL meet up

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Open PHACTS SureChEMBL & ChEMBL meet up (Cambridge, UK)

Project Meeting: SureChEMBL

On September 10, 2014, Posted by , In Project Meetings, By ,,, , With Comments Off on Project Meeting: SureChEMBL

SureChEMBL planning meeting at EBI (Cambridgeshire, UK)

New source of open chemistry patent data available

On December 11, 2013, Posted by , In News, By ,,,,,, , With Comments Off on New source of open chemistry patent data available

A major new source of open patent chemistry is now available, thanks to the collaboration between Digital Science and the EBI ChEMBL group. We are discussing how this data might be integrated with Open PHACTS and look forward to developing use cases in 2014.

Open PHACTS featured in ChEMBL blog

On August 2, 2013, Posted by , In News, By ,,,, , With Comments Off on Open PHACTS featured in ChEMBL blog

Open PHACTS has been featured in the ChEMBL blog: Open PHACTS KNIME and Pipeline Pilot Components.

Open PHACTS featured in blog posts

On May 13, 2013, Posted by , In News, By ,,,,, , With Comments Off on Open PHACTS featured in blog posts

Open PHACTS has been featured on the ChEMBL and Corante blogs: ChEMBL blog: Direct submissions of data to ChEMBL and the Open PHACTS project by Stefan Senger Corante blog: In the Pipeline: Why Not Share More Bioactivity Data? by Derek Lowe

Conference: Bio-Assay Ontology Workshop

On April 16, 2013, Posted by , In Conferences, By ,,,,,,,,, , With Comments Off on 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

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Open PHACTS Bio-Assay Ontology Workshop, Miami, USA Mark Davies (EMBL-EBI) View presentation

Presentation: ChEMBL bioassay data – Classification and data exchange

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Bio-Assay Ontology Workshop, Miami, USA Anna Gaulton (EMBL-EBI) View presentation

ChEMBL RDF Workshop held

On March 27, 2013, Posted by , In News, By ,,,,,, , With Comments Off on 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…

Project Meeting: Workshop

On March 22, 2013, Posted by , In Project Meetings, By ,,,, , With Comments Off on Project Meeting: Workshop

ChEMBL RDF Workshop (Cambridgeshire, UK)

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…