Taking Open Innovation to the Molecular Level - Strengths and Limitations

Author(s)
Barbara Zdrazil, Niklas Blomberg, Gerhard Ecker
Abstract

The ever-growing availability of large-scale open data and its maturation is having a significant impact on industrial drug-discovery, as well as on academic and non-profit research. As industry is changing to an open innovation business concept, precompetitive initiatives and strong public-private partnerships including academic research cooperation partners are gaining more and more importance. Now, the bioinformatics and cheminformatics communities are seeking for web tools which allow the integration of this large volume of life science datasets available in the public domain. Such a data exploitation tool would ideally be able to answer complex biological questions by formulating only one search query. In this short review/perspective, we outline the use of semantic web approaches for data and knowledge integration. Further, we discuss strengths and current limitations of public available data retrieval tools and integrated platforms.

Organisation(s)
External organisation(s)
AstraZeneca
Journal
Molecular Informatics
Volume
31
Pages
528-535
No. of pages
8
ISSN
1868-1743
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1002/minf.201200014
Publication date
08-2012
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
301207 Pharmaceutical chemistry, 301305 Medical chemistry
Sustainable Development Goals
SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
Portal url
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/754d694f-bd0f-4e24-81a0-579dc8ce4d91