ROBOKOP

ROBOKOP enables querying and reasoning over biomedical knowledge graphs to extract and rank relationships among genes, diseases, drugs, and other biological entities for biomedical hypothesis generation.


Key Features:

  • Graph-Based Data Management: Represents relationships among biomedical entities using knowledge graphs stored in a graph-database format.
  • Complex Query Handling: Executes and manages complex queries that generate extensive subgraphs, including outputs with potentially hundreds of thousands of results.
  • Query Result Storage and Ranking: Provides mechanisms for querying, storing, and ranking large-scale query outputs to prioritize plausible relationships.
  • Integration with NCATS Translator and Reasoner Programs: Acts as an abstraction layer for structured biomedical data and reasoning within the NCATS Translator and reasoner ecosystem.

Scientific Applications:

  • Drug Discovery and Development: Enables exploration of potential drug targets and pathways by querying interconnected biomedical datasets.
  • Disease Mechanism Elucidation: Supports uncovering molecular underpinnings of diseases through analysis of biological networks.
  • Personalized Medicine: Facilitates integration of diverse biomedical data to inform treatment decisions based on individual genetic profiles.

Methodology:

Represents biomedical entities in knowledge graphs stored in a graph-database format, executes queries that generate subgraphs, and applies mechanisms for storing and ranking query results.

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License:
MIT
Programming Languages:
JavaScript, Python
Added:
11/14/2019
Last Updated:
12/14/2020

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Publications

Morton K, Wang P, Bizon C, Cox S, Balhoff J, Kebede Y, Fecho K, Tropsha A. ROBOKOP: an abstraction layer and user interface for knowledge graphs to support question answering. Bioinformatics. 2019;35(24):5382-5384. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btz604. PMID:31410449. PMCID:PMC6954664.

PMID: 31410449
Funding: - National Institutes of Health: OT2R002514, OT3TR002020

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