What is it about?
Making data available in a format known as "RDF" can produce "Linked Data" that promotes integration with other web resources. RDF documents can natively link to related data, and others can link back using Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs). RDF makes the data machine-readable and uses extensible vocabularies for additional information, making it easier to scale up inference and data analysis.
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Why is it important?
This publication emphasizes the benefits of using open standards and ontologies to link the ChEMBL database to other databases,. Using those links and the knowledge encoded in standards and ontologies, the resulting ChEMBL-RDF resource creates a foundation for integrated semantic web cheminformatics applications, such as the decision support presented in this paper.
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This page is a summary of: The ChEMBL database as linked open data, Journal of Cheminformatics, May 2013, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1186/1758-2946-5-23.
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The Royal Society of Chemistry and its adoption of semantic web technologies for chemistry at the epoch of a federated world
Semantic web technologies have quickly penetrated all areas of traditional and new database systems and have become the de facto standard in information exchange and communication. The Royal Society of Chemistry has built a new chemistry data repository with the semantic web at the core of the system. Every module of the data repository contains a semantic web layer and is able to interact internally and externally using standard approaches and formats including RDF and appropriate ontologies.
Incorporating Commercial and Private Data into an Open Linked Data Platform for Drug Discovery
The Open PHACTS Discovery Platform aims to provide an integrated information space to advance pharmacological research in the area of drug discovery. Effective drug discovery requires comprehensive data coverage, i.e. integrating all available sources of pharmacology data. While many relevant data sources are available on the linked open data cloud, their content needs to be combined with that of commercial datasets and the licensing of these commercial datasets respected when providing access.
SPARQL end point
Query the data described in this paper here.
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