| Abstract |
Open PHACTS (the Open Pharmacological Concepts Triple Store) will deliver a
single view across available data resources, and will be freely available
to users. Scientific text, difficult to analyse by computer, will have fact
ual assertions extracted as semantic triples, allowing for the first time t
he prospect of querying textual and database data together to give answers
needed to identify new drug targets and pharmacological interactions. While
the semantic approach has been delivered in small-scale and targeted appro
aches so far, its promise for multiscale data integration has remained larg
ely unfulfilled - Open PHACTS is a major project including many of the top
semantic web experts, committed to deliver on this promise.
The project has defined as a deliverable a 6-month prototype system - a `la
sh-up=B4 of the relevant state of the art technologies. I will give a demon
stration of this lash-up system and an overview of its' various components.
I will then present the challenges in developing the full system along wit
h our proposed solutions in terms of scalability, mapping between data sour
ces and reasoning.
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