OPC: A formal ontology in the domain of process chemistry
NOTE: OPC is now named the PROcess Chemistry Ontology (PROCO), and available on a new GitHub website: https://github.com/proco-ontology/PROCO.
The Ontology of Process Chemistry (OPC) is aimed to be a community-based ontology in the domain of process chemistry, which is a branch of chemistry (including pharmaceutical chemistry) that studies the development and optimization of the production processes for chemical compounds, and the scaling up of laboratory chemical reactions into commercially viable routes. Key considerations are product quality, process robustness, economics, environmental sustainability, regulatory compliance and safety.
OPC was initiated as a collaborative project between Merck and Unversity of Michigan. Oliver He from Unversity of Michigan received a Merck fund and has been actively working with Wes Schafer at Merck on the OPC development. Later our OPC development team has been expanded to include more developers, including Anna Dunn and Zachary E. X. Dance.
The OPC development has also got support and collaboration with the Allotrope Foundation.
Wes Schafer, Oliver He, Anna Dunn, Zachary E. X. Dance. Ontology for Process Chemistry – Giving Context to Instrument Data Structured by the Allotrope Data Model. Allotrope Connect Virtual Conference, April 19-26, 2021, Virtual meeting. (YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVv8TJc7p9c).
Oliver He, Wes Schafer. Extending the Allotrope Framework: An Ontological Representation and Analysis of Process Chemistry (Oral presentation). 2020 Fall Allotrope Connect Virtual Conference, Sept. 30th, 2020.
OPC OWL source: opc.owl
webprotege access (account needed): OPC-webprotege
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