This document summarizes the Neo4j Health Care and Life Sciences Workshop held in November 2021. The workshop focused on applying graph databases and technologies to challenges and opportunities in life sciences, biotech, pharma, and health care. Over the two days there were 13 talks presented on topics like drug repurposing, proteomics, reactome, cancer research, and COVID-19. The document also discussed challenges of using graphs in these domains and how graph technologies continue to innovate and improve collaboration opportunities.

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Welcome to the Neo4j
Health Care and Life Sciences
Workshop Nov 2021
Michael Hunger, Senior Director of User Innovation, Neo4j

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Berlin 2017
Ghent 2012
11 talks & 3 workshops
Proceedings published
6 talks & 1 workshop
neo4j.com/blog/neo4j-life-sciences-healthcare-workshop-berlin/
neo4j.com/blog/graph-databases-in-life-sciences-workshop/

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Graphs in Life Science
• Drug repurposing
• Proteome
• Reactome
• Cancer Research
• Clinical Trials
• Pathway Analysis
• Scientific Paper Analysis
• Covid*Graph
• Drug Optimization
• Healthcare Education

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Challenges
• Graph Education
• Relearn tools
• Spreadsheets and Relational
• Better collaboration
◦ don't reinvent the wheel
• Data import and publication
• Cross datasource querying
• Ontologies
• Data Quality
• Combine Graph Data with
Graph Data Science
(SNA & ML)

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Opportunities
• real world structures and
interactions are networks
• contextualize data
• visualize & query structures
and patterns
• large scale collaboration
• public datasets/databases
• correlate disparate sources
into larger knowledge graphs
• unsupervised learning / SNA
• large data volumes

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Graph Technology
• Much innovation in the space
• GQL Graph Query Language
• Cloud services (AuraDB)
• Graph Data Science Library
◦ Graph algorithms
◦ ML embeddings, models,
pipelines
• RDF/Neosemantics
• Spark / Kafka / JDBC/ODBC
connectors
• Cloud Native integrations e.g.
ML / NLP / Image Processing
• Fabric for Federation
• Better Visualization at Scale

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Foster Better Collaboration
• Please fill out the survey
• Tech workshops / trainings
• Update & improve life-sciences
page
• neo4j.com/developer/life-sciences-and-healthcare/
• More regular workshops
• Highlight & Award
graphs4good projects

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Enjoy the two days of
knowledge sharing
Big Thanks to all speakers!
And to Martin Preusse &
Alexander Erdl for organizing!

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● Life Sciences, Biotech, Pharma, Health?
● Public research & private sector
● 13 talks

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10 November - 4:10am EST | 9:10am GMT | 10:10am CET
Graph-centric framework for translational clinical proteomics
Ana Rita Freitas Colaco

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