Ontology management Archives

A Report from the Biocuration 2023 Conference in Padua, Italy

The Biocuration Conference this year was held in the beautiful historic town of Padua in the Veneto region of Italy, renowned for its ancient University and picturesque old town. The stylish and relaxed atmosphere was the perfect place for catching up with old friends and establishing new connections and collaborations.
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What is IDMP – Navigating the ISO IDMP standards with SciBite ontologies

As of the first quarter of 2023, it will be mandatory for pharmaceutical manufacturers that market to the EU to comply with the European Medicines Agency (EMA) ISO Standards for the Identification of Medicinal Products (IDMP).
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Creating a SciBite VOCab from a public ontology

Public ontologies are essential for applying FAIR principles to data but are not built for use in named entity recognition pipelines. At SciBite, we build on the public ontologies to create VOCabs optimized for NER. In this blog, discover how we create a SciBite VOCab from a Public Ontology.
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Why Use Your Ontology Management Platform as a Central Ontology Server

Raw data has the inherent characteristic of being unstructured with potential quality issues such as inaccurate, incomplete, inconsistent, and duplicated. Therefore, it must be processed before it can be used for subsequent analysis and confident data-driven decisions. This is where ontologies come into play.
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Leveraging semantics for effective navigation of scientific content

A Copyright Clearance Center & SciBite Perspective - In an increasingly data-driven society, it can be overwhelming to keep your knowledge base current and effectively utilize data. The result in many organisations is underutilising the data and content available to them.
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What’s in our 6.5.2 TERMite / VOCabs release

SciBite’s vocabularies fuel a host of use cases, from complex querying to data integration and discovery of new knowledge. In the 6.5.2 release of VOCabs, SciBite introduces the new Emtree VOCab pack, as well as a new Sequence Ontology vocab to the Genotype-Phenotype vocab pack. Several updates to existing vocabularies are also included.
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SciBite’s newest VOCabs – What’s in our 6.5 release

SciBite’s VOCabs power a host of semantic use cases including search and analytics. Created from public ontologies and reference databases for a wide range of topics, these vocabularies are enriched using our proprietary tools, and curated by our team of experts to ensure maximum capture of relevant synonyms by subject area and context.
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CODiE 2022 SIIA finalist in best Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

SciBite's ontology management platform, CENtree earns nod from industry leaders by being named a 2022 SIIA CODiE Award finalist in the Best Integration Platform as a Service category.
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SciBite nominates ontology management platform CENtree for a SIIA CODiE award

We’re thrilled to announce that SciBite has nominated it's ontology management platform CENtree for a SIIA CODie award in the 'Best Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)' category.
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SKOS in CENtree: Further support in our latest 2.1 release

At SciBite terminologies underpin all that we do. There are many ways to represent and build a standardised terminology, each with different levels of complexity. On one hand you have simple, informal, lightweight terminologies (e.g., glossaries, dictionaries, and thesauri), where the meaning (semantics) of terms is captured using natural language.
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SciBite brings enterprise ontologies to Benchling – Ontology backed data capture

Unstructured and siloed data in the life sciences remains a significant barrier to fulfilling the promise of digital transformation. Awareness is growing for the importance of data capture and storage, enabling it to be effectively found, accessed, used interoperably and reused. These are the foundations of FAIR. Capturing data with FAIR in mind, ensuring your data is “born FAIR”, is key to unlocking the full potential of data.
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SciBite announces the release of CENtree 2.0.1

In this blog we announce the 2.0.1 release of CENtree, SciBite’s ontology management platform, which sees the introduction of features that enable you and your team greater control over managing and deploying ontologies in your applications, and a closer integration with TERMite.
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SciBite and Sinequa join forces to transform scientific search

SciBite and Sinequa's new collaboration combines custom ontologies with a powerful search platform to help researchers find answers fast.
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SciBite and Stardog build a Knowledge Graph for drug discovery in a new webinar

In a recent webinar, SciBite and Stardog team members demonstrated how to build a knowledge graph to identify candidate drugs for a rare disease.
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Introducing efficiencies into the scientific reading experience

First and foremost, researchers need access to a corpus of scientific literature and secondly, they need a robust and reproducible way to search that content. Through partnership, SciBite and Copyright Clearance Center bring together scientific content and advanced search capabilities.
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SciBite launches SaaS versions of its semantic technology products

SciBite has today unveiled its new Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) version of TERMite, SciBite’s named entity recognition engine, and its CENtree™ ontology management system.
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SciBite and L7 Informatics partner to deliver data ontology search through L7|ESP™

SciBite and L7 Informatics announce joint partnership to support discovery and collaboration in the life sciences.
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SciBite joins ISB panel to discuss AI and the Future of Biocuration

Our SciBite CTO was invited to take part in a panel discussion as part of this year's virtual Biocuration Conference, where he shared his thoughts in a thought-provoking discussion on “The Future of Biocuration.”
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Annotation of the Covid-19 open research dataset for the scientific research community

In this blog find out how the SciBite team has responded to the tech community call to arms from The White House after they released an Open Research Dataset (CORD-19), with the hope to help uncover insights and answer high-priority scientific questions related to Covid-19.
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What’s new in CENtree 1.4:
Making ontology management simple

Find out what's new in CENtree 1.4, the latest release of the enterprise ready multi-user ontology management platform for browsing and managing ontologies.
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What’s new in the latest release CENtree 1.2

Find out what's new in CENtree 1.2, the latest release of the enterprise ready multi-user ontology management platform for browsing and managing ontologies.
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Sprinkling a little semantic enrichment into your data catalog

This blog focuses on the use and value of data catalogs and Master Data Management (MDM) tools and how the additional layer of Semantics is required in order to truly see their value for enterprises looking to manage their data better.
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The allotrope ontologies: The power of open ontologies in industry

In this blog, find out how our next-generation ontology management tool CENtree can be used to manage the allotrope ontologies.
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CENtree 1.1: Latest release of the revolutionary ontology management tool

SciBite releases latest version of CENtree, the revolutionary ontology management platform for the life sciences.
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SciBite releases new version of their easy to use Vocabulary Editing Toolkit – VET 2.0

SciBite releases new version of easy-to-use Vocabulary Editing Toolkit, VET 2.0 which adds new features, improves performance, and offers even greater ease-of-use.
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SciBite releases CENtree 1.0

SciBite releases CENtree 1.0, the latest version of the innovative, collaborative platform which revolutionizes the way life sciences organizations manage and release ontologies.
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Semantic approach to training ML data sets using ontologies & not Sherlock Holmes

SciBite's CTO explains how the semantic approach to using ontologies is essential in successfully training machine learning data sets. In this blog he discusses how Sherlock Holmes (amongst others) made an appearance when we looked to exploit the efforts of Wikipedia to identify articles relevant to the life science domain for a language model project.
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Building the future of text analytics

SciBite CSO and Founder Lee Harland features in KM World Magazine, where he talks about the future of text analytics and how ontologies are the de facto standard to encode semantics in an understandable form for both humans and machines.
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Using Enterprise Search to unlock the wealth of R&D data

Learn more in this blog post about our partnership with Sinequa and how our technologies work together to provide a winning combination of Cognitive Search and powerful Life Sciences Semantics, as we explain how enterprise search platforms are enabling Pharmaceutical companies to become more information-driven.
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Using ontologies to unlock the full potential of your scientific data – Part 2

This blog post focuses on mapping, building, and managing ontologies. In my previous blog, I described what ontologies are and how you can use them to make the best use of scientific data within your organization. Here I’ll expand upon this and focus on mapping, building, and managing ontologies.
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Using ontologies to unlock the full potential of your scientific data – Part 1

In the first of this two-part blog, I describe what ontologies are and how you can use them to make the best use of scientific data within your organisation.
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How ontology enrichment is essential in maintaining clean data

Ontologies have become a key piece of infrastructure for organisations as they look to manage their metadata to improve the reusability and findability of their data. This is the final blog in our blog series 'Ontologies with SciBite'. Follow the blog series to learn how we've addressed the challenges associated with both consuming and developing ontologies.
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Enhanced Clinical Vocabularies – Inclusion of CDISC in TERMite 6.3

SciBite's latest TERMite 6.3 release includes a new set of clinical ontologies as it introduces a set of CDISC vocabularies.
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The importance of facilitating collaboration and integration

Ontologies have become a key piece of infrastructure for organisations as they look to manage their metadata to improve the reusability and findability of their data. This is the third blog in our blog series 'Ontologies with SciBite'. Follow the blog series to learn how we've addressed the challenges associated with both consuming and developing ontologies.
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Why simplifying visualization and curation is better for everyone

Ontologies have become a key piece of infrastructure for organisations as they look to manage their metadata to improve the reusability and findability of their data. This is the second blog in our blog series 'Ontologies with SciBite'. Follow the blog series to learn how we've addressed the challenges associated with both consuming and developing ontologies.
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The benefits of centralizing ontology management

Ontologies have become a key piece of infrastructure for organisations as they look to manage their metadata to improve the reusability and findability of their data. This is the first blog in our blog series 'Ontologies with SciBite'. Follow the blog series to learn how we've addressed the challenges associated with both consuming and developing ontologies.
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SciBite launches CENtree, ontology management for life sciences

Cambridge, UK - SciBite, the award-winning semantic technology company, today announced the launch of CENtree, an innovative, collaborative platform which revolutionizes the way life sciences organizations manage and release ontologies.
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SciBite announced as best of show award finalists for Bio-IT World 2019

SciBite has been shortlisted for Bio-IT World 2019’s prestigious Best of Show Award.
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SciBite Ontology Services offers expert ontology solutions

Cambridge, UK – SciBite, the award-winning semantic technology company, today announced the launch of SciBite Ontology Services.
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How biomedical ontologies are unlocking the full potential of biomedical data

Our latest blog explains how SciBite's Ontologies team takes public biomedical ontologies and tailors them so that they can be used for named entity recognition (NER).
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How semantic enrichment technology is changing the way we search

In our latest blog we discuss the challenges life sciences companies, like LifeArc, face in keeping up-to-date with scientific literature, and how semantic enrichment technology can automate this process to reduce the time spent mining data by up to 80%.
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Exploring ontology visualization techniques for biological data

What’s the most useful way to visualize an ontology? SciBite CTO gives his views on answering this commonly asked question regarding ontology visualization techniques.
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Are ontologies relevant in a machine learning-centric world?

SciBite CSO and Founder Lee Harland shares his views on why ontologies are relevant in a machine learning-centric world and are essential to help "clean up" scientific data in the Life Sciences industry.
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Ontology mapping: You say tomato I say Solanum Lycopersicum…

In this post, we explore this important but often overlooked topic and discuss its relevance to the work of SciBite and other groups, such as FAIR and the Pistoia Alliance within the broader scientific community.
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A hacker’s guide to understanding bio-ontology jargon

Perfect for those new to bio-ontologies or who work with ontologists - a whole new vocabulary deciphered!
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VOCab of the Week: ORPHAN

Gaining a deeper insight into rare diseases with our ORPHAN VOCab.
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VOCab of the week: Food, nutrients and micronutrients

A closer look at our food, nutrients and micronutrients VOCab
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High Performance Ontology Engineering

One of the key aims of SciBite is to help our customers work with public ontologies in text mining applications. While these ontologies are very valuable resources, they are often built for the purpose of data organization, not text mining.
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