BioAssay Ontology – Frost Institute for Data Science & Computing

Novel Platform Connects Users and Developers of Scientific Vocabularies

July 21, 2020August 4, 2023

OntoloBridge, a new platform designed to bridge the gap between regular users of controlled scientific vocabularies and the creators of underlying ontologies, has been developed under a collaborative U01 grant by the University of Miami, Stanford University, and Collaborative Drug Discovery (CDD). The novel platform is now available through the BioPortal Ontology Repository. Read more “Novel Platform Connects Users and Developers of Scientific Vocabularies” →

Public-Private Partnership to Facilitate Ontology Use and Application

December 18, 2017May 18, 2020

Ontology sounds a lot like a medical specialty—but it’s not related to Oncology, Otolaryngology, or Ophthalmology—except that researchers organizing Big Data in Biomedicine into different ‘ontologies’ or categories could help expedite new drug targets and discoveries in these specialties, and others, in the future.

The University of Miami Miller School of Medicine is joining a partnership to combine advances in ontologies, templates, and other research tools to take digital biomedical research data to the next level. Read more “Public-Private Partnership to Facilitate Ontology Use and Application” →

CDD and IDSC receive NIH SBIR Award

October 2, 2013August 4, 2023

Collaborative Drug Discovery (CDD) and researchers at the Center for Computational Science of the University of Miami received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) (Small Business Innovation Research) SBIR Award to develop novel assay annotation technology for the CDD Vault leveraging our BioAssay Ontology (BAO). Read more “CDD and IDSC receive NIH SBIR Award” →

NIH funds “LIFE”

September 30, 2011August 4, 2023

Congratulations to Drs. Stephan Schurer, Vance Lemmon, Ubbo Visser, and the Cheminformatics Group, recipients of NIH funding for their proposal entitled “LINCS Information FramEwork (LIFE) to Integrate and Analyze Diverse Data set”. This project proposes to develop a novel information system that will help scientists to access and use information generated by the NIH LINCS project and other public data sources. Read more “NIH funds “LIFE”” →

In the News: BioAssay Ontology Project (BAO)

May 2, 2011August 4, 2023

Researcher Leads Effort to Speed Up Drug Discovery

For chemists and other scientists who, like Stephan Schürer, Ph.D., are immersed in the early phases of new drug discovery, PubChem is a treasure trove. The largest public database of small molecule screening data accessible to anyone in the world contains thousands of experiments on hundreds of thousands of compounds with millions of values.