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Conference: CCG UGM & Conference 2014 Europe

On April 25, 2014, Posted by , In Conferences, By ,,, , With Comments Off on Conference: CCG UGM & Conference 2014 Europe

CCG UGM & Conference 2014 Europe, Strasbourg, France Gerhard Ecker (University of Vienna) represented Open PHACTS

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Conference: US NSF Data Citation Workshop

On April 18, 2014, Posted by , In Conferences, By ,,,,,,, , With Comments Off on Conference: US NSF Data Citation Workshop

US National Science Foundation Workshop: Computational Challenges in Data Citation, Philadelphia, USA Paul Groth (VU University Amsterdam) gave a presentation: Data Citation and Linked Open Data – From links to citation?

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Presentation: Data Citation and Linked Open Data – From links to citation?

On April 18, 2014, Posted by , In Presentations, By ,,,, , With Comments Off on Presentation: Data Citation and Linked Open Data – From links to citation?

US National Science Foundation Workshop: Computational Challenges in Data Citation, Philadelphia, USA Paul Groth (VU University Amsterdam) View presentation

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Open PHACTS poster wins prize at CSHALS 2014 in Boston

On April 17, 2014, Posted by , In News, By ,,,,,, , With Comments Off on Open PHACTS poster wins prize at CSHALS 2014 in Boston

Simon Rakov, Linda Zander Balderud and Tom Plasterer from AstraZeneca presented a poster entitled “BAO Reveal: Assay Analysis Using the BioAssay Ontology and Open PHACTS” at the Conference on Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences (CSHALS) 2014 in Boston. The poster won the F1000 (Faculty of 1000) Poster Prize, and…

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Open PHACTS project outputs are highly cited

On April 17, 2014, Posted by , In News, By ,, , With Comments Off on Open PHACTS project outputs are highly cited

The Open PHACTS Impactstory profile shows project outputs to be highly discussed, saved and cited. If you have papers, data, code or websites that you’d like to include please let the PMU know at pmu@openphacts.org.

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Publication: A Knowledge-Driven Approach to Extract Disease-Related Biomarkers from the Literature

On April 16, 2014, Posted by , In Publications, By ,,,,, , With Comments Off on Publication: A Knowledge-Driven Approach to Extract Disease-Related Biomarkers from the Literature

The biomedical literature represents a rich source of biomarker information. However, both the size of literature databases and their lack of standardization hamper the automatic exploitation of the information contained in these resources. Text mining approaches have proven to be useful for the exploitation of information contained in the scientific…

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Publication: Transporter taxonomy – a comparison of different transport protein classification schemes

On April 5, 2014, Posted by , In Publications, By ,,,, , With Comments Off on Publication: Transporter taxonomy – a comparison of different transport protein classification schemes

Currently, there are more than 800 well characterized human membrane transport proteins (including channels and transporters) and there are estimates that about 10% (approx. 2000) of all human genes are related to transport. Membrane transport proteins are of interest as potential drug targets, for drug delivery, and as a cause…

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Publication: Transporter assays and assay ontologies: useful tools for drug discovery

On April 5, 2014, Posted by , In Publications, By ,,,,,, , With Comments Off on Publication: Transporter assays and assay ontologies: useful tools for drug discovery

Transport proteins represent an eminent class of drug targets and ADMET (absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion, toxicity) associated genes. There exists a large number of distinct activity assays for transport proteins, depending on not only the measurement needed (e.g. transport activity, strength of ligand–protein interaction), but also due to heterogeneous assay…

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Conference: SSPT Spring Meeting 2014

On April 4, 2014, Posted by , In Conferences, By ,,,, , With Comments Off on Conference: SSPT Spring Meeting 2014

Swiss Society of Pharmacology and Toxicology Spring Meeting 2014, Bern, Switzerland Gerhard Ecker (University of Vienna) gave a presentation: Open PHACTS – Building an open pharmacological space

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6th Open PHACTS Community Workshop

On April 4, 2014, Posted by , In News, By ,,,,, , With Comments Off on 6th Open PHACTS Community Workshop

The 6th Open PHACTS Community Workshop will be held in London on 26 June 2014 and aims to introduce members of the academic community to the Open PHACTS Discovery Platform. The workshop is free to attend, please register your interest by contacting london@openphactsfoundation.org. The workshop will be of interest to: Researchers…

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7th Steering Committee meeting held

On March 31, 2014, Posted by , In News, By ,, , With Comments Off on 7th Steering Committee meeting held

The 7th Open PHACTS Steering Committee Meeting was held in Vienna on 28 March, 2014. The Steering Committee and Scientific Advisory Board were informed about the great progress the project has made since its start and were introduced to the future plans of the project. The Scientific Advisory Board was…

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Project Meeting: Steering Committee

On March 28, 2014, Posted by , In Project Meetings, By , With Comments Off on Project Meeting: Steering Committee

7th Steering Committee meeting (Vienna, Austria)

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Project Meeting: Workpackage Leader Group

On March 27, 2014, Posted by , In Project Meetings, By , With Comments Off on Project Meeting: Workpackage Leader Group

7th Workpackage Leader Group meeting (Vienna, Austria)

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Project Meeting: Sustainability

On March 26, 2014, Posted by , In Project Meetings, By , With Comments Off on Project Meeting: Sustainability

Sustainability planning (Vienna, Austria)

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ChemBioNavigator updated

On March 21, 2014, Posted by , In News, By ,,, , With Comments Off on ChemBioNavigator updated

We are pleased to announce that a major update of ChemBioNavigator, jointly developed by the University of Hamburg and BioSolveIT, has just been released. Among many other new features, the latest version offers the ability to use a target as a starting point and enhanced pharmacological data functionality. Please take a…

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Conference: 247th ACS Meeting

On March 20, 2014, Posted by , In Conferences, By ,,, , With Comments Off on Conference: 247th ACS Meeting

247th ACS National Meeting & Exposition, Dallas, USA The University of Hamburg presented a poster on ChemBioNavigator: Accessing Open PHACTS: Interactive exploration of compounds and targets from the semantic web

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Conference: European Data Forum 2014

On March 20, 2014, Posted by , In Conferences, By ,,, , With Comments Off on Conference: European Data Forum 2014

European Data Forum 2014, Athens, Greece Paul Groth (VU University Amsterdam) gave a presentation: A Platform for Drug Discovery

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Poster: Accessing Open PHACTS: Interactive exploration of compounds and targets from the semantic web

On March 20, 2014, Posted by , In Posters, By ,,,,,,,, , With Comments Off on Poster: Accessing Open PHACTS: Interactive exploration of compounds and targets from the semantic web

247th ACS National Meeting & Exposition, Dallas, USA View poster

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Presentation: Accessing Open PHACTS: Interactive exploration of compounds and targets from the semantic web

On March 20, 2014, Posted by , In Presentations, By ,,,, , With Comments Off on Presentation: Accessing Open PHACTS: Interactive exploration of compounds and targets from the semantic web

Joint CINF-RSC CICAG Symposium at the 247th ACS National Meeting & Exposition, Dallas, USA Katrin Stierand (University of Hamburg) View presentation

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Presentation: A Data Platform for Drug Discovery

On March 20, 2014, Posted by , In News,Presentations, By ,,, , With Comments Off on Presentation: A Data Platform for Drug Discovery

European Data Forum 2014, Athens, Greece Paul Groth (VU University Amsterdam) View presentation Watch presentation video

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Conference: CINF-RSC CICAG Symposium

On March 20, 2014, Posted by , In Conferences, By ,,,,,,,,, , With Comments Off on Conference: CINF-RSC CICAG Symposium

Joint CINF-RSC CICAG Symposium at the 247th ACS National Meeting & Exposition, Dallas, USA Valery Tkachenko (Royal Society of Chemistry) represented Open PHACTS, and Katrin Stierand (University of Hamburg) gave a presentation: Accessing Open PHACTS: Interactive exploration of compounds and targets from the semantic web

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2nd Open PHACTS Pipeline Pilot Hackathon held

On March 12, 2014, Posted by , In News, By ,,,,, , With Comments Off on 2nd Open PHACTS Pipeline Pilot Hackathon held

On 6 March, 2014, the 2nd Open PHACTS Pipeline Pilot Hackathon took place on the Merck campus in Darmstadt, Germany. Attendees from eight different industrial and academic institutions worked on the new version 2.0 of the Open PHACTS component collection which was provided by Accelrys through financial support by Janssen Pharmaceutica….

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Open PHACTS endorses Data Citation

On March 11, 2014, Posted by , In News, By ,,,, , With Comments Off on Open PHACTS endorses Data Citation

The Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles is the culmination of work by the Data Citation Synthesis Group of Force11, made up of a range of organisations including Creative Commons, the EBI and CERN. Open PHACTS endorses this set of principles which encourages data to be cited as an important part…

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Project Meeting: Hackathon

On March 6, 2014, Posted by , In Project Meetings, By , , With Comments Off on Project Meeting: Hackathon

2nd Pipeline Pilot Hackathon (Darmstadt, Germany)

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Publication: Exploiting open data: a new era in pharmacoinformatics

On March 1, 2014, Posted by , In Publications, By ,,,,, , With Comments Off on Publication: Exploiting open data: a new era in pharmacoinformatics

Within the last decade open data concepts has been gaining increasing interest in the area of drug discovery. With the launch of ChEMBL and PubChem, an enormous amount of bioactivity data was made easily accessible to the public domain. In addition, platforms that semantically integrate those data, such as the…

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Poster: Answering drug-discovery research questions with Open PHACTS and KNIME

On February 28, 2014, Posted by , In Posters, By ,, , With Comments Off on Poster: Answering drug-discovery research questions with Open PHACTS and KNIME

47th Scientific training event for pharmacists,Schladming, Austria View poster

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Poster: BAO Reveal: Assay Analysis Using the BioAssay Ontology and Open PHACTS

On February 28, 2014, Posted by , In Posters, By ,,,,,, , With Comments Off on Poster: BAO Reveal: Assay Analysis Using the BioAssay Ontology and Open PHACTS

CSHALS, Conference on Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences, Boston, USA Awarded Faculty of 1000 Poster Prize View poster

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Presentation: Semantics Based Biomedical Knowledge Search

On February 28, 2014, Posted by , In Presentations, By ,,, , With Comments Off on Presentation: Semantics Based Biomedical Knowledge Search

CSHALS, Conference on Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences, Boston, USA Barend Mons (Leiden University Medical Centre) View presentation

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Presentation: The Open PHACTS project – Progress and Future Sustainability

On February 28, 2014, Posted by , In Presentations, By ,,, , With Comments Off on Presentation: The Open PHACTS project – Progress and Future Sustainability

CSHALS, Conference on Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences, Boston, USA Tom Plasterer (AstraZeneca) View presentation

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Conference: CSHALS 2014

On February 28, 2014, Posted by , In Conferences, By , , With Comments Off on Conference: CSHALS 2014

CSHALS, Conference on Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences, Boston, USA Open PHACTS representatives gave several presentations 

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