Open PHACTS API
Open PHACTS API provides integrated access to pharmacological and physicochemical data by consolidating diverse public datasets into a semantically enriched triple store to support drug discovery research.
Key Features:
- Integrated pharmacological and physicochemical data: Aggregates pharmacological and physicochemical data from diverse publicly available sources into a consolidated resource.
- Consolidated triple store: Stores integrated data in a unified RDF triple store for structured representation.
- Open PHACTS API: Exposes the consolidated data programmatically via the Open PHACTS API.
- Semantic web standards and technologies: Employs semantic web standards and technologies to represent and link data across sources.
- Semantic enrichment: Applies semantic enrichment to aggregated data to improve interoperability and queryability.
- Open pharmacological space: Establishes and maintains an open pharmacological space through integration and semantic annotation of datasets.
Scientific Applications:
- Drug discovery research: Supports drug discovery by providing integrated pharmacological and physicochemical data for analysis.
- Addressing research challenges: Facilitates tackling specific challenges in drug discovery through semantically integrated datasets.
- Support for academic and industry efforts: Provides integrated data resources usable in both open innovation and proprietary drug discovery efforts.
Methodology:
Aggregates diverse data sources into a consolidated RDF triple store and applies semantic web standards and semantic enrichment to enable improved querying and analysis.
Topics
Details
- License:
- CC-BY-3.0
- Maturity:
- Mature
- Cost:
- Free of charge
- Tool Type:
- api
- Operating Systems:
- Linux, Windows, Mac
- Added:
- 2/18/2016
- Last Updated:
- 11/25/2024
Operations
Data Inputs & Outputs
Data retrieval
Publications
Gray AJ, Groth P, Loizou A, Askjaer S, Brenninkmeijer C, Burger K, Chichester C, Evelo CT, Goble C, Harland L, Pettifer S, Thompson M, Waagmeester A, Williams AJ. Applying linked data approaches to pharmacology: Architectural decisions and implementation. Semantic Web. 2014;5(2):101-113. doi:10.3233/sw-2012-0088.
Williams AJ, Harland L, Groth P, Pettifer S, Chichester C, Willighagen EL, Evelo CT, Blomberg N, Ecker G, Goble C, Mons B. Open PHACTS: semantic interoperability for drug discovery. Drug Discovery Today. 2012;17(21-22):1188-1198. doi:10.1016/j.drudis.2012.05.016. PMID:22683805.
Documentation
Downloads
- Container filehttps://github.com/openphacts/ops-dockerDocker Compose setup
- Source codehttp://data.openphacts.org/