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Overview

Egon Willighagen is affiliated with Maastricht University in the Netherlands. Their research output is primarily within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a significant focus on Molecular Biology as a subfield. Additional areas of study include Information Systems, Information Systems and Management, Artificial Intelligence, and Computational Theory and Mathematics.

The scientist's recent publications span various topics and venues. Notable papers include:

  • "WikiPathways: connecting communities" (2020) published in Nucleic Acids Research
  • "The LOTUS initiative for open knowledge management in natural products research" (2022) published in eLife
  • "WikiPathways 2024: next generation pathway database" (2023) published in Nucleic Acids Research
  • "Artificial intelligence for natural product drug discovery" (2023) published in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery
  • "COVID-19 Disease Map, building a computational repository of SARS-CoV-2 virus-host interaction mechanisms" (2020) published in Scientific Data

Their research topics cover a range of themes including Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies, Research Data Management Practices, Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks, Scientific Computing and Data Management, Computational Drug Discovery Methods, Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies, and Semantic Web and Ontologies.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Egon Willighagen are:

  • Chris T. Evelo (41 publications)
  • Martina Kutmon (29 publications)
  • Marvin Martens (25 publications)
  • Nina Jeliazkova (18 publications)
  • Ammar Ammar (17 publications)

Their work is regularly published in several key venues, including:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) with 51 publications
  • Journal of Cheminformatics with 9 publications
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 8 publications
  • Scientific Data with 7 publications
  • Toxicology Letters with 6 publications

Best Publications

  • The Chemistry Development Kit (CDK): An open-source Java library for chemo- and bioinformatics

    Christoph Steinbeck;Yongquan Han;Stefan Kuhn;Oliver Horlacher

  • WikiPathways : a multifaceted pathway database bridging metabolomics to other omics research

    Denise Slenter;Martina Kutmon;Kristina Hanspers;Anders Riutta

  • WikiPathways: connecting communities.

    Marvin Martens;Ammar Ammar;Anders Riutta;Andra Waagmeester

  • Recent developments of the chemistry development kit (CDK) - an open-source java library for chemo- and bioinformatics

    Christoph Steinbeck;Christian Hoppe;Stefan Kuhn;Matteo Floris

  • The Chemistry Development Kit (CDK) v2.0: atom typing, depiction, molecular formulas, and substructure searching

    Egon L. Willighagen;John W. Mayfield;Jonathan Alvarsson;Arvid Berg

  • The Blue Obelisk—Interoperability in Chemical Informatics

    Rajarshi Guha;Michael T. Howard;Geoffrey R. Hutchison;Peter Murray-Rust

  • WikiPathways: capturing the full diversity of pathway knowledge.

    Martina Kutmon;Anders Riutta;Nuno Nunes;Kristina Hanspers

  • The LOTUS initiative for open knowledge management in natural products research

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  • FAIR principles : interpretations and implementation considerations

    Annika Jacobsen;Ricardo de Miranda Azevedo;Nick S. Juty;Dominique Batista

  • Adverse outcome pathways: opportunities, limitations and open questions.

    Marcel Leist;Ahmed Ghallab;Ahmed Ghallab;Rabea Graepel;Rosemarie Marchan

  • Open PHACTS: Semantic interoperability for drug discovery

    Antony J. Williams;Lee Harland;Paul Groth;Stephen Pettifer

  • Artificial intelligence for natural product drug discovery

    Unknown

  • WikiPathways 2024: next generation pathway database

    Unknown

  • OSCAR4: a flexible architecture for chemical text-mining

    David M Jessop;Sam E Adams;Egon L Willighagen;Lezan Hawizy

  • Linked open drug data for pharmaceutical research and development

    Matthias Samwald;Matthias Samwald;Matthias Samwald;Anja Jentzsch;Christopher Bouton;Claus Stie Kallesøe

  • The Chemical Translation Service—a web-based tool to improve standardization of metabolomic reports

    Gert Wohlgemuth;Pradeep Kumar Haldiya;Egon L. Willighagen;Tobias Kind

  • Bioclipse: an open source workbench for chemo- and bioinformatics

    Ola Spjuth;Tobias Helmus;Egon L Willighagen;Stefan Kuhn

  • COVID-19 Disease Map, building a computational repository of SARS-CoV-2 virus-host interaction mechanisms.

    Marek Ostaszewski;Alexander Mazein;Alexander Mazein;Marc E. Gillespie;Marc E. Gillespie;Inna Kuperstein

  • The ChEMBL database as linked open data

    Egon L Willighagen;Andra Waagmeester;Ola Spjuth;Peter Ansell

  • PubChemRDF: towards the semantic annotation of PubChem compound and substance databases

    Gang Fu;Colin R. Batchelor;Michel Dumontier;Janna Hastings

  • The eNanoMapper database for nanomaterial safety information

    Nina Jeliazkova;Charalampos Chomenidis;Philip Doganis;Bengt Fadeel

  • Wikidata as a knowledge graph for the life sciences.

    Andra Waagmeester;Gregory Stupp;Sebastian Burgstaller-Muehlbacher;Benjamin M Good

  • The Chemical Information Ontology: Provenance and Disambiguation for Chemical Data on the Biological Semantic Web

    Janna Hastings;Leonid Chepelev;Egon Willighagen;Nico Adams;Nico Adams

  • Scholia, Scientometrics and Wikidata

    Finn Årup Nielsen;Daniel Mietchen;Egon L. Willighagen

Frequent Co-Authors

Ola Spjuth
Ola Spjuth Uppsala University
Christoph Steinbeck
Christoph Steinbeck Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Haralambos Sarimveis
Haralambos Sarimveis National Technical University of Athens
Roland C. Grafström
Roland C. Grafström Karolinska Institute
Alexander R. Pico
Alexander R. Pico Gladstone Institutes
Carole Goble
Carole Goble University of Manchester
Antony J. Williams
Antony J. Williams Environmental Protection Agency
Janna Hastings
Janna Hastings University College London
Jarl E. S. Wikberg
Jarl E. S. Wikberg Uppsala University
Iseult Lynch
Iseult Lynch University of Birmingham

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