During the Bio-IT FAIR Data Hackathon with more than 50 participants and 90 attendees, teams focused on real-world data challenges to make data FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable.
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At the end of June, ONTOFORCE joined the EIT Health Data Empowerment Days in Nice, France, where EIT Health and their partner organizations came together to brainstorm in a hackathon-like setting. Besides taking part in the vendor challenge (we won 1st and 2nd prize), our main objective was working with the EIT Health staff and their 100+ partners on specific use cases. Here’s a report from these hands-on sessions and their results.
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I recently spoke at the iRODS User Group Meeting 2018 (June 5-7 2018, Durham, NC, USA) on the FAIR principles and how our research community is using the semantic platform DISQOVER in our DataHub infrastructure. Here’s the story from that session explaining how we link on-premise clinical data with other sources to gain more, better and faster insights.
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We’re glad to have Paul Vauterin join ONTOFORCE as Vice-President Visual Analytics. Paul’s an expert in software product creation and management, including vision, strategy and execution for biotech, human diagnostics, data mining and visual analytics applications.
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In May 2017, Bio-IT World hosted its first hackathon on FAIR data. As ONTOFORCE, we helped organize the event and devoted a team to the competition on ‘Aligning a dataset to FAIR principles’. Here’s our report.
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A recent trip to Canada, under the umbrella of Flanders Investment & Trade (FIT) and the Flemish Enterprise Network (VOKA), got me thinking: sponsored trips and subsidies really help companies to extend their footprint. It takes some time and perseverance, but trade missions and subsidized projects do generate results!
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Overall challenges addressed by international initiatives for large scale production of collections of iPSC lines include the establishment of reference lines, standards for quality control and the logistic and legal challenges faced in distributing iPSCs across borders.
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Around 40 participants joined us for our ‘Big Data Workshop: Getting knowledge out of (Big) data’. Hans Constandt, CEO, and Filip Pattyn, Product Manager and Bioinformatician at ONTOFORCE, introduced and demonstrated DISQOVER – our platform to quickly discover insights out of vast amounts of data.
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Some events are absolutely great and 'Knowledge For Growth 2015' fitted the bill perfectly. A big crowd (±1,100 people) of highly relevant life sciences people, a wide range of different topics, enthusiastic speakers, 90+ exhibitors, and yes, the food was great too. Here’s our report from K4G 2015.
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The third day of the Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences (SWAT4LS) meeting and workshop in Berlin on December 11th, was completely dedicated to a hackathon organized at the Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für Informationstechnik Berlin (ZIB), Computer Science Campus, Freie University Berlin.
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Today’s first Digital Tech Summit was a very inspiring day where I met some old and quite some new interesting people from the International Venture Club.
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Today I was inspired by a talk by Noel Slangen … communication specialist, entrepreneur and spin doctor of many very influential people … next vacation I will definitely read one of his books.
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