This webinar introduces the Europe PMC human-annotated full-text corpus for Gene/Proteins, Diseases and Organisms and highlights how it has been used to train machine learning models for systematic identification and prioritisation of potential therapeutic drugs by the Open Targets Platform. This webinar will explain how to access and reuse the annotated corpus as an open community resource and provide an overview of the Open Targets Platform.

Europe PMC is an open access life science database of journal articles and preprints, containing over 41 million abstracts and 8.7 million full-text articles.

Open Targets Platform is an innovative public-private partnership that uses human genetics and genomics data for systematic drug target identification and prioritisation.
 

Speakers

Santosh Tirunagari is a Senior Machine Learning Developer at EMBL-EBI, with a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Surrey. In 2018 Santosh was recognised with the prestigious Outstanding AI post-doc research award from CogX. The focus of his research is machine learning applied to problems of predictive analytics, data-driven modelling, feature extraction, and natural language processing.

Helena Cornu is the Communications Lead for Open Targets. In this role she is responsible for both internal and external communications, including running the Open Targets social media accounts, writing and commissioning content for the blog, and external outreach events. She is always looking for opportunities to collaborate, so please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

Annalisa Buniello is the Product Manager for Open Targets. In her role she oversees development and delivery of the Open Targets bioinformatics resources, whilst liaising with users and stakeholders to ensure the products meet their needs.

Who is this course for?

This webinar is suitable for anyone interested in using Europe PMC Machine Learning Dataset and Open Targets to discover information on drug targets and further life science applications of the corpus. No prior knowledge of bioinformatics is required, but undergraduate level knowledge of biology would be useful.

Outcomes

By the end of the webinar you will be able to:

• Describe the role of Europe PMC and Open Targets in accessing drug target information 
• Describe uses of the Europe PMC Annotations Corpus
• Access the Europe PMC Machine Learning Dataset 

This webinar took place on 21 March 2023. Please click the 'Watch video' button to view the recording.