Research

HCLS Community Profile for Dataset Descriptions

My latest publication [1] describes the process followed in developing the W3C Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group (HCLSIG) community profile for dataset descriptions which was published last year. The diagram below provides a summary of the data model for describing datasets which covers 61 metadata terms drawn from 18 vocabularies.Overview of the HCLS Community Profile for Dataset Descriptions

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ISWC 2016 Deadlines Approaching

ISWC 2016 will be taking place in Kobe, Japan from 17-21 October. Tomorrow is the deadline for abstract submissions for ISWC, with full papers due on 30 April. There are three tracks for you to submit to:

  1. The Research Track: innovative and groundbreaking work on the cross between semantics and the web.
  2. The Applications Track: benefits and challenges of applying semantic technologies. This track is accepting three different types of submissions on in-use applications, industry applications and industry applications.
  3. The Resources Track: reusable resources like datasets, ontologies, benchmarks and tools are crucial for many research disciplines and especially ours. Make sure you read the guidelines for describing a reusable resources.

To entice you to come to Kobe, Japan, there are three fantastic keynotes lined up:

  • Kathleen McKeown – Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University,
    Director of the Institute for Data Sciences and Engineering, and Director of the North East Big Data Hub.
  • Hiroaki Kitano – CEO of Sony Computer Science Laboratory and President of the systems biology institute. A truly inspirational figure who has done everything from RoboCup to systems biology. He was even an invited artist at MoMA.
  • Chris Bizer – Professor at the Univesity of Mannheim and Director of the Institute of Computer Science and Business Informatics there. If you’re in the Semantic Web community – you know the amazing work Chris has done. He really kicked the entire move toward Linked Data into high gear.

I am co-chairing the Resources Track with Marta Sabou. I hope to be able to welcome you to Kobe.

Thanks to Paul Groth as the text for this post is based on his post from a month ago.

Open PHACTS is dead, long live Open PHACTS!

I have spent the last five years working on the Open PHACTS project which is sadly at an end. However it is not the end of the Open PHACTS drug discovery platform. We have transitioned to a new era of a foundation organisation running and developing the platform. The milestone was marked by the symbolic handover of the Open PHACTS flag (see photo of on the right Barend Mons (Leiden Medical Center) and Gerhard Ecker (University of Vienna) handing the flag to on the left Stefan Senger (GlaxoSmithKline), Derek Marren (Eli Lilly), and Herman van Vlijmen (Janssen Pharmaceutica).

A nice summary of the closing symposium is available:

Linking Life Science Data: Design to Implementation, and Beyond

19 Feb, 2016 Open PHACTS project closing conference (Vienna, Austria)

On 18–19 February, 2016, we celebrated the completion of the Open PHACTS project with a conference at the University of Vienna, Austria. A total of 79 people attended to discuss the achievements of the Open PHACTS project, what they mean for the future of linked data, and how they can be carried forward.

Source: Linking Life Science Data: Design to Implementation, and Beyond – Open PHACTS Foundation

 

Open PHACTS Closing Symposium

For the last 5 years I have had the pleasure of working with the Open PHACTS project. Sadly, the project is now at an end. To celebrate we are having a two day symposium to look over the contributions of the project and its future legacy.

The project has been hugely successful in developing an integrated data platform to enable drug discovery research (see a future post for details to support this claim). The result of the project is the Open PHACTS Foundation which will now own the drug discovery platform and sustain its development into the future.

Here are my slides on the state of the data in the Open PHACTS 2.0 platform.