The application of the open pharmacological concepts triple store (open PHACTS) to support drug discovery research.

Integration of open access, curated, high-quality information from multiple disciplines in the Life and Biomedical Sciences provides a holistic understanding of the domain. Additionally, the effective linking of diverse data sources can unearth hidden relationships and guide potential research strat...

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Main Authors: Joseline Ratnam, Barbara Zdrazil, Daniela Digles, Emiliano Cuadrado-Rodriguez, Jean-Marc Neefs, Hannah Tipney, Ronald Siebes, Andra Waagmeester, Glyn Bradley, Chau Han Chau, Lars Richter, Jose Brea, Chris T Evelo, Edgar Jacoby, Stefan Senger, Maria Isabel Loza, Gerhard F Ecker, Christine Chichester
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Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0115460
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author Joseline Ratnam
Barbara Zdrazil
Daniela Digles
Emiliano Cuadrado-Rodriguez
Jean-Marc Neefs
Hannah Tipney
Ronald Siebes
Andra Waagmeester
Glyn Bradley
Chau Han Chau
Lars Richter
Jose Brea
Chris T Evelo
Edgar Jacoby
Stefan Senger
Maria Isabel Loza
Gerhard F Ecker
Christine Chichester
author_facet Joseline Ratnam
Barbara Zdrazil
Daniela Digles
Emiliano Cuadrado-Rodriguez
Jean-Marc Neefs
Hannah Tipney
Ronald Siebes
Andra Waagmeester
Glyn Bradley
Chau Han Chau
Lars Richter
Jose Brea
Chris T Evelo
Edgar Jacoby
Stefan Senger
Maria Isabel Loza
Gerhard F Ecker
Christine Chichester
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description Integration of open access, curated, high-quality information from multiple disciplines in the Life and Biomedical Sciences provides a holistic understanding of the domain. Additionally, the effective linking of diverse data sources can unearth hidden relationships and guide potential research strategies. However, given the lack of consistency between descriptors and identifiers used in different resources and the absence of a simple mechanism to link them, gathering and combining relevant, comprehensive information from diverse databases remains a challenge. The Open Pharmacological Concepts Triple Store (Open PHACTS) is an Innovative Medicines Initiative project that uses semantic web technology approaches to enable scientists to easily access and process data from multiple sources to solve real-world drug discovery problems. The project draws together sources of publicly-available pharmacological, physicochemical and biomolecular data, represents it in a stable infrastructure and provides well-defined information exploration and retrieval methods. Here, we highlight the utility of this platform in conjunction with workflow tools to solve pharmacological research questions that require interoperability between target, compound, and pathway data. Use cases presented herein cover 1) the comprehensive identification of chemical matter for a dopamine receptor drug discovery program 2) the identification of compounds active against all targets in the Epidermal growth factor receptor (ErbB) signaling pathway that have a relevance to disease and 3) the evaluation of established targets in the Vitamin D metabolism pathway to aid novel Vitamin D analogue design. The example workflows presented illustrate how the Open PHACTS Discovery Platform can be used to exploit existing knowledge and generate new hypotheses in the process of drug discovery.
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spelling doaj-art-c1affc6cc2544706bec5f96b4cf53af72025-08-20T03:10:09ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032014-01-01912e11546010.1371/journal.pone.0115460The application of the open pharmacological concepts triple store (open PHACTS) to support drug discovery research.Joseline RatnamBarbara ZdrazilDaniela DiglesEmiliano Cuadrado-RodriguezJean-Marc NeefsHannah TipneyRonald SiebesAndra WaagmeesterGlyn BradleyChau Han ChauLars RichterJose BreaChris T EveloEdgar JacobyStefan SengerMaria Isabel LozaGerhard F EckerChristine ChichesterIntegration of open access, curated, high-quality information from multiple disciplines in the Life and Biomedical Sciences provides a holistic understanding of the domain. Additionally, the effective linking of diverse data sources can unearth hidden relationships and guide potential research strategies. However, given the lack of consistency between descriptors and identifiers used in different resources and the absence of a simple mechanism to link them, gathering and combining relevant, comprehensive information from diverse databases remains a challenge. The Open Pharmacological Concepts Triple Store (Open PHACTS) is an Innovative Medicines Initiative project that uses semantic web technology approaches to enable scientists to easily access and process data from multiple sources to solve real-world drug discovery problems. The project draws together sources of publicly-available pharmacological, physicochemical and biomolecular data, represents it in a stable infrastructure and provides well-defined information exploration and retrieval methods. Here, we highlight the utility of this platform in conjunction with workflow tools to solve pharmacological research questions that require interoperability between target, compound, and pathway data. Use cases presented herein cover 1) the comprehensive identification of chemical matter for a dopamine receptor drug discovery program 2) the identification of compounds active against all targets in the Epidermal growth factor receptor (ErbB) signaling pathway that have a relevance to disease and 3) the evaluation of established targets in the Vitamin D metabolism pathway to aid novel Vitamin D analogue design. The example workflows presented illustrate how the Open PHACTS Discovery Platform can be used to exploit existing knowledge and generate new hypotheses in the process of drug discovery.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0115460
spellingShingle Joseline Ratnam
Barbara Zdrazil
Daniela Digles
Emiliano Cuadrado-Rodriguez
Jean-Marc Neefs
Hannah Tipney
Ronald Siebes
Andra Waagmeester
Glyn Bradley
Chau Han Chau
Lars Richter
Jose Brea
Chris T Evelo
Edgar Jacoby
Stefan Senger
Maria Isabel Loza
Gerhard F Ecker
Christine Chichester
The application of the open pharmacological concepts triple store (open PHACTS) to support drug discovery research.
PLoS ONE
title The application of the open pharmacological concepts triple store (open PHACTS) to support drug discovery research.
title_full The application of the open pharmacological concepts triple store (open PHACTS) to support drug discovery research.
title_fullStr The application of the open pharmacological concepts triple store (open PHACTS) to support drug discovery research.
title_full_unstemmed The application of the open pharmacological concepts triple store (open PHACTS) to support drug discovery research.
title_short The application of the open pharmacological concepts triple store (open PHACTS) to support drug discovery research.
title_sort application of the open pharmacological concepts triple store open phacts to support drug discovery research
url https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0115460
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