1. The case for an open biomedical
knowledgebase
Andrew Su, Ph.D.
@andrewsu
asu@scripps.edu
http://sulab.org
February 27, 2017
Slides: slideshare.net/andrewsu
3. The biomedical literature is massive…
3
0
200,000
400,000
600,000
800,000
1,000,000
1,200,000
1,400,000
1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015
Number of new PubMed-indexed articles
9. Take-home #2
Wikidata is an outstanding
community platform
9
#1: TOKeN is critical for
biomedical research
10. Seeding Wikidata with biomedical data
• All human, mouse genes and proteins
(~175k items)
• All FDA approved drugs (~2k items)
• All human diseases from Disease
Ontology (~7k items)
• 120 reference microbial genomes
Mitraka et al (2015) Semantic Web Applications for the Life Sciences
Burgstaller-Muelbacher et al (2016) Database
Putman et al (2016) Database
18. Take-home #3
Drug repurposing is a
promising application
18
#2: Wikidata is an outstanding
community platform
#1: TOKeN is critical for
biomedical research
19. 19
“Repurposing generally refers to studying
drugs that are already approved to treat one
disease or condition to see if they are safe
and effective for treating other diseases”.
23. “Undiscovered public knowledge”
23
Raynaud
disease
Fish oil / EPA
Abnormal
platelet
activity
Abnormal
blood
viscosity
High blood
viscosity
Elevated RBC
rigidity
Vasodilation
Low blood
triglycerides
Increased
prostacyclins
A
C
B
B
B
B
B
B
B