Linked open drug data for pharmaceutical research and development

Autor: Samwald Matthias, Jentzsch Anja, Bouton Christopher, Kallesøe Claus, Willighagen Egon, Hajagos Janos, Marshall M, Prud'hommeaux Eric, Hassenzadeh Oktie, Pichler Elgar, Stephens Susie
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2011
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Zdroj: Journal of Cheminformatics, Vol 3, Iss 1, p 19 (2011)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1758-2946
DOI: 10.1186/1758-2946-3-19
Popis: Abstract There is an abundance of information about drugs available on the Web. Data sources range from medicinal chemistry results, over the impact of drugs on gene expression, to the outcomes of drugs in clinical trials. These data are typically not connected together, which reduces the ease with which insights can be gained. Linking Open Drug Data (LODD) is a task force within the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group (HCLS IG). LODD has surveyed publicly available data about drugs, created Linked Data representations of the data sets, and identified interesting scientific and business questions that can be answered once the data sets are connected. The task force provides recommendations for the best practices of exposing data in a Linked Data representation. In this paper, we present past and ongoing work of LODD and discuss the growing importance of Linked Data as a foundation for pharmaceutical R&D data sharing.
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