The life sciences are fortunate to be rich in established ontologies, terminologies, and data models, for example MeSH, MedDRA, CDISC and the Human Phenotype Ontology. However, this richness presents its own challenges:
- The requirement to map between ontologies
- Managing multiple sources
- Choosing the right ontologies in a complex landscape
The ontology coverage is patchy, and for the pharma industry there are notable gaps that must be filled.
The Pistoia Alliance is a pre-competitive industry collaboration which aims to advance innovation through collaboration. One of its key strategic goals is delivering value from data of which shared ontology development is a key part.
In this presentation Christian Baber and Jane Lomax will describe the current and emerging data and ontology landscape and the part that Pistoia is playing in shaping the future.
Christian and Jane will also examine how value is being derived from ontologies using knowledge-graphs and other approaches, 'AI-ready' data, and laboratory data collection.
