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In this review, we outline the scientific requirements identified by the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) Open PHACTS consortium for the design of an open pharmacological space (OPS) information system. Typical scientific competency questions provided by the consortium members is analyzed based on the underlying data concepts and associations needed to answer the questions.

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In the design of a system for scientists interested in querying complex datasets to answer questions regarding pharmacology it is necessary to consider what some of those questions might be way ahead of time. This paper discusses the methodology of gathering that input as well as the resulting question set and should be of interest to anyone building similar systems in the future. Spend your time upfront gathering the appropriate user input rather than build it and they will come!

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This page is a summary of: Scientific competency questions as the basis for semantically enriched open pharmacological space development, Drug Discovery Today, September 2013, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.drudis.2013.05.008.
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