Boston, September 23 2020: The Pistoia Alliance, a global, not-for-profit alliance that works to lower barriers to innovation in life science and healthcare R&D, today announced it has opened registration for its annual October conference. Held virtually this year, the conference comprises keynote presentations from industry leaders at organisations including Novartis and Roche. This is […]
Data is the key asset in biopharmaceutical research; it is highly valued, but how well is it managed? Developing a rigorous and robust data governance strategy is the foundation for driving innovation and improving the efficiency and effectiveness of R&D. New technologies, such as AI/ML, currently being utilised in modern R&D including its laboratories are […]
The Pistoia Alliance Launches New Project to Help Life Sciences and Healthcare Realize the Value of Digital Health The first project of the new digital initiative, backed by $40,000 seed funding from the Alliance, will analyze data from apps used in a clinical trial to improve the consistency of data capture Boston, 9th June […]
Data for drug discovery and healthcare is often trapped in silos which hampers effective interpretation and reuse. To remedy this, such data needs to be linked both internally and to external sources to make a FAIR data landscape which can power semantic models and knowledge graphs.
Boston, 25 February, 2020 The Pistoia Alliance, a global, not-for-profit alliance that works to lower barriers to innovation in life sciences R&D, today released the latest Unified Data Model (UDM) file format, Version 6, supported by funding from Biovia, Elsevier, GSK, Novartis, and Roche (recently joined by BMS). V6 delivers a stable foundation for the […]
The Semantic Enrichment of ELN Data (SEED) Project is pleased to announce its official “start-up” in January 2020. Following the recent presentation at the Pistoia Alliance conference in Boston by Steve Penn ( Pfizer), there is a high level of interest in the project and this has been confirmed by offers of funding that […]
With the explosion of interest in both enhanced knowledge management and open science, the past few years have seen considerable discussion about making scientific data “FAIR” — findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable. The problem is that most scientific datasets are not FAIR. When left to their own devices, scientists do an absolutely terrible job creating […]
Ontologies and Semantic Web technologies play an important role in the life sciences to help make data more interoperable and reusable. EMBL-EBI contributes to the development of biomedical ontologies and makes extensive use of them in the annotation of public datasets especially for large-scale data integration efforts. There is an increasing recognition for the role […]
Recent Press Release: Boston & London, Wednesday 15 May, 2019 – The Pistoia Alliance, a global non-profit that works to lower barriers to innovation in life sciences R&D, today announced new survey results showing access to data (52 percent) and lack of skills (44 percent) are the biggest barriers to the adoption of AI and machine […]
The Pistoia Alliance is looking at future priorities for our CoE for AI in Life Sciences and Health. Building on the feedback after our recent London workshop Mar 2019 and the webinars & events over the last few months. Our current list is below and we welcome your views on the priorities here and where […]
Three-day EU conference covering range of topics examines how technology is driving change in life sciences R&D and improving patients’ health London, 18th March, 2019 – The Pistoia Alliance, a global, not for profit alliance that works to lower barriers to innovation in life sciences R&D, is urging industry stakeholders worldwide to focus on […]
We are delighted to announce the next of our partner challenges for the hackathon. These challenges are designed to show how deep learning can work with life science and health related data to make an impact on advancing research into tackling disease and supporting patients. The ExCAPE compound activity prediction challenge, presented by Janssen and […]
