Title
Applying linked data approaches to pharmacology: Architectural decisions and implementation
Abstract
The discovery of new medicines requires pharmacologists to interact with a number of information sources ranging from tabular data to scientific papers, and other specialized formats. In this application report, we describe a linked data platform for integrating multiple pharmacology datasets that form the basis for several drug discovery applications. The functionality offered by the platform has been drawn from a collection of prioritised drug discovery business questions created as part of the Open PHACTS project, a collaboration of research institutions and major pharmaceutical companies. We describe the architecture of the platform focusing on seven design decisions that drove its development with the aim of informing others developing similar software in this or other domains. The utility of the platform is demonstrated by the variety of drug discovery applications being built to access the integrated data.An alpha version of the OPS platform is currently available to the Open PHACTS consortium and a first public release will be made in late 2012, see http://www.openphacts.org/ for details.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.3233/SW-2012-0088
Semantic Web
Keywords
Field
DocType
data integration,linked data,pharmacology
Data integration,Drug discovery,World Wide Web,Architecture,Pharmacology,Linked data,Software,Engineering,Linked Data Platform
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
5
2
1570-0844
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
15
1.16
21
Authors
14
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alasdair J. G. Gray141735.91
Paul Groth21709139.30
Antonis Loizou3536.59
Sune Askjaer4161.86
Christian Y. A. Brenninkmeijer5675.48
Kees Burger6152.85
Christine Chichester716913.60
Chris T A Evelo832719.18
Carole Goble97252788.90
Lee Harland10303.46
Steve Pettifer1114018.00
Mark Thompson12151.16
Andra Waagmeester13968.13
Antony J. Williams1413120.30