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Ontology work at the Royal Society of Chemistry. Antony J. Williams , Colin Batchelor, Peter Corbett, Jon Steele and Valery Tkachenko. ACS Dallas March 16 th 2014. Royal Society of Chemistry. You know us as a publisher and society but We are a host of chemistry databases
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Ontology work at the Royal Society of Chemistry Antony J. Williams, Colin Batchelor, Peter Corbett, Jon Steele and Valery Tkachenko ACS Dallas March 16th 2014
Royal Society of Chemistry You know us as a publisher and society but We are a host of chemistry databases We are a charity and community support We are a provider of grant-based services We are an innovator in cheminformatics
We have data to manage… Compounds Reactions Spectra Crystals Materials Assays Algorithms …
We have data to manage… Compounds Reactions Spectra Crystals Materials Assays Algorithms …
Physicochemical properties LONG LIST: log P, log D (at pH 5.5, at pH 7.4), bioconcentration factor, KOC (at pH 5.5, at pH 7.4), index of refraction, polar surface area, molar refractivity, molar volume, polarizability, surface tension, density at STP, flash point at 1 atm, boiling point at 1 atm, enthalpy of vaporization at STP, vapour pressure at STP…
All are amenable to ontologiesand should blend standards Compounds and properties are handled (InChIs are important) Reactions are covered (and RInChIs help) Spectra (JCAMP, AnIML, NetCDF, mzML) Crystals (CIFs) Materials (MatML) Assays (MIAME) Algorithms …
ChemSpider is 7 years old When ChemSpider was developed ontologies were not directly implemented The ontologies and technologies have developed and more accepted in seven years Some efforts have been made to include ontologies – layer on MeSH. We support a lot of standards – InChI, RInChI, JCAMP, CIF The ChemSpider architecture is being rebuilt and considering new standards and ontologies
Some available ontologies… RSC has built and opened in-house ontologies: Chemical methods (CHMO) Name reactions (RXNO) Molecular processes (MOP), largely auto-generated from the corresponding ChEBI classes We have contributed to external ontologies: Small molecules (ChEBI) Cheminformatics (CHEMINF)
Chemistry ontologies 1 ChEBI (molecules, families of molecules, parts of molecules, 32128 fully annotated classes) (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/chebi/) perylene skeleton (CHEBI:60200) perylene (CHEBI:29861) a perylene (CHEBI:60201)
Chemistry ontologies 2 Chemical Methods Ontology (http://rsc-cmo.googlecode.com) 2745 classes describes methods used to: collect data in chemical experiments, such as MS and NMR prepare and separate material for further analysis, such as sample ionisation, chromatography, and electrophoresis synthesise materials, such as continuous vapour deposition also describes the instruments used in these experiments, such as mass spectrometers and chromatography columns and their outputs Should be of value to chemical hazards and safety data
Chemistry ontologies 3 RSC Name Reaction Ontology (http://rxno.googlecode.com/) 421 classes Examples: Diels–Alder cyclization
Chemistry ontologies 4 CHEMINF (http://code.google.com/p/semanticchemistry/) 638 classes Describes cheminformatics methods. Not presently used in text mining (see Open PHACTS usage later). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0025513
Limits of ontologies Chemical space is very big: ‘The “small molecule universe” (SMU), the set of all synthetically feasible organic molecules of 500 Daltons molecular weight or less, is estimated to contain over 1060 structures, making exhaustive searches for structures of interest impractical.” Virshupet al., J. Am. Chem. Soc., doi:10.1021/ja401184g
Why a named reaction ontology? Despite attempts to introduce systematic nomenclature for organic reactions, lots of chemists still prefer to attach human names.
A big challenge Classification is based on what the experimenter intends Build the ontology around intended product molecules rather than might be by-products (Carbon dioxide, water, hydrolysed protecting groups, protons, etc.etc.)
Limits of reaction classification • Much of RXNO is still classified by hand • Example: we can’t just define a cyclization as a reaction where a cyclic compound is formed. The Friedel–Crafts acylation produces a cyclic compound but is not a cyclization!
RXNO in the wild 510 classes in the RXNO namespace … and RXNO is built in to NextMove Software’s reaction identification tool.
RXNO: next steps • More reactions! • More cross-references! • More example reactions! • Links to graphical versions! (All drawn, just awaiting uploading.) • More SMIRKS strings!
Using ontologies in text mining To provide a controlled vocabulary of terms found in text and a common identifier. This identifier hopefully is a resolvable HTTP URI, for example, for chemical compounds http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CHEBI_36063 ) and to methods terminology
Ontologies as synonym sets for text-mining • We have text-mined the whole 21st century RSC archive with a myriad of ontologies. Results are on the publishing platform • We have looked for correlations between molecules and ontology terms. • Two examples follow…
Co-occurrences with ? alcohols (CHEBI:30879) solvents (CHEBI:46787) coproporphyrins (CHEBI:23388) 3D DOSY-TOCSY (CHMO:0001950) lipase activity (GO:0016298) solvolysis (MOP:0000620) wood (ENVO:00002040) aliphatic alcohol (CHEBI:2571) Raman circular dichroism spectroscopy (CHMO:0001160) propoxy group (CHEBI:46881) steam reforming (CHMO:0001450) hydrogenation (MOP:0000589) aqueous-phase reforming (CHMO:0001444) sonication (CHMO:0001707)
Co-occurrences with ? reducing agent (CHEBI:63247) ascorbic acid (CHEBI:22652) antioxidant (CHEBI:22586) reduction (MOP:0000569) electrode (CHMO:0002344) ascorbate (CHEBI:22651) modified residue (SO:0001089) phosphate buffer (CHMO:0001734) oxidation (MOP:0000568) nafion polymer (CHEBI:61428) vitamin C (CHEBI:21241) antioxidant activity (GO:0016209) atom-transfer radical polymerisation (MOP:0000684) detection of glucose (GO:0051594) reducing agent (CHEBI:63247) glucose (CHEBI:17234) graphene (CHEBI:36973)
Projects and Ontologies 3-year Innovative Medicines Initiative project Integrating chemistry and biology data using semantic web technologies Open source code, open data and open standards Academics, Pharmas, Publishers… To put medicines in the pipeline…
Our RDF schema Two dozen calculated properties >106 molecules CHEMINF ontology for cheminformatics QUDT for units and numeric values ChemSpider IDs for molecules Calculation calculated log P has_output has_value 2.177 has_input has_unit is_about benzene connection table dimensionless 0.234 has standard uncertainty
RSC data in Open PHACTS Molecule synonyms and identifiers Linksetsbetween ChEBI, ChEMBL, DrugBank and OPS identifiers Molecule–molecule relations (“parent–child”) of interest for drug discovery Calculated physicochemical properties for compounds (both molecular and macroscopic)
Synonyms and identifiers Newly added to the CHEMINF ontology: Validated ChemSpider synonyms Unvalidated ChemSpider synonyms Validated database identifiers Unvalidated database identifiers InChI, InChIKey, SMILES Preferred ChemSpider name
Physicochemical properties log P log D (at pH 5.5, at pH 7.4)bioconcentration factor KOC (at pH 5.5, at pH 7.4) index of refraction polar surface area molar refractivity molar volume polarizability surface tension density at STP flash point at 1 atm boiling point at 1 atmenthalpy of vaporization at STP vapour pressure at STP
It is actually more complicated.. CHEMINF calculated log P calculation process OBI has specified output rdf:type CHEMINF execution of ACD/Labs PhysChem software library version 12.01 rdf:type calculation result OBI has specified input QUDT has value IAO is about OPS benzene benzene’s connection table QUDT has unit “2.17”^^xsd:float QUDT has standard uncertainty rdf:type QUDT dimensionless quantity CHEMINF connection table “0.234”^^xsd:float
Chemistry Data to manage… Compounds Reactions Spectra Crystals (in development) Materials Assays Algorithms …
Future Work Extending use of ontologies across all of our work on databases and as an underpinning to the Chemical Data Repository Adding ontologies to other grant-based projects such as PharmaSea Continued collaborations with University of Southampton on Labtrove for Chemistry RSC collaboration with Dr Stuart Chalk (UNF) on data standards and ontologies Working with CHAS on hazard/safety data
Thank you • Email: williamsa@rsc.org • ORCID: 0000-0002-2668-4821 • Twitter: @ChemConnector • Personal Blog: www.chemconnector.com • SLIDES: www.slideshare.net/AntonyWilliams