Graph Data Science for Drug Discovery: The 5-Minute Interview With Ufuk Kirik
By Angela Zimmerman
November 18, 2022 < 1 min read
Dip your toes in the water. Pay attention to graph model, but don’t be a perfectionist. There’s a lot of really good documentation out there. There’s a lot of experts who are willing to share their expertise. Use them and don’t be shy and try it out,” says Ufuk Kirik, Associate Director of Graph Data Science at AstraZeneca.
Keywords: 5-minute interview • graph data science • Interview • Life Sciences • pharmaceutical
GraphConnect 2022: 10 Sessions You Don’t Want to Miss
By Enzo
May 24, 2022 10 mins read
Here are 10 highly-anticipated GraphConnect 2022 presentations (among 130+ sessions) that you don’t want to miss.
Keywords: accenture • Adobe • Agenda • audience • Austin • blockchain • cybersecurity • data science • dell • Developer
Graphie Graphs4Good in Medical Research: 5–Minute Interview with HealthECCO
By Angela Zimmerman
February 25, 2022 7 mins read
Let’s hear it for HealthECCO and their groundbreaking medical research using Graphs4Good which won the team a 2021 Graphie Award!
Keywords: covid-19 • graph data science • graph data science library • Graphie Award • HealthECCO • Interview • Knowledge Graph • medical research
GeneWeaver: Building a Graph to Map Variants to Genes Using Neo4j 4.x and Bulk Import
By Angela Zimmerman
January 25, 2022 12 mins read
Discover how Jackson Laboratory built a graph database to map variants to genes using Neo4j 4.x and the bulk import feature.
Keywords: biomedical • biotech • bulk import • Connected Data • cypher • gene mapping • genetics • GeneWeaver • graph database • Healthcare
Neo4j Graphs4Good Honored with Fast Company’s 2021 World Changing Ideas Award
By Jocelyn Hoppa
May 5, 2021 3 mins read
Read more about the recent honorable mentions Neo4j received from Fast Company for our Graphs 4 COVID-19 “GraphHack” initiative.
Keywords: COVID-19 GraphHack • Fast Company • Neo4j Community • neo4j graphs4good
Introducing Graph Databases For Dummies
By Jocelyn Hoppa
September 16, 2020 7 mins read
Check out some main highlights from Chapter 1 of the newly release Graph Databases For Dummies, Neo4j Special Edition.
Keywords: data models • graph database basics • Graph Database for Dummies • labeled property graphs • queries at scale
GraphConnect 2020 Agenda: Everything You Need to Know
By Rachel Howard
March 6, 2020 < 1 min read
The health and safety of our community, partners and employees are of the utmost importance to Neo4j. After monitoring the COVID-19 situation closely, we have decided to postpone GraphConnect 2020 in New York City to 2021. We are actively scoping… Read more →
Keywords: artificial intelligence • biotech • data discovery • Data Visualization • digital transformation • graph technology • graphconnect • Healthcare • Knowledge Graph • machine learning
Reveal Hidden Patterns In Healthcare Data: Graph Analytics and the Opioid Crisis
By Jocelyn Hoppa
November 19, 2019 9 mins read
Read this blog series to discover leading-edge graph analytic techniques to derive intelligence from complex healthcare data.
Keywords: business intelligence • data scientists • graph algorithms • Graph Analytics • healthcare data • machine learning • neo4j • Neo4j Bloom • opioid crisis
Overcoming CCPA Compliance Challenges: Why Graph Technology Is the Best Solution
By David Penick
October 28, 2019 3 mins read
Read the final installment in our series on CCPA challenges, which shows four steps to privacy compliance and why graph technology is the superior solution.
Keywords: California Privacy Act • CCPA • CCPA compliance • data breach • data privacy • GDPR • graph database • graph technology • neo4j • privacy compliance
GraphConnect 2020: Call for Papers Closing November 15
By Jocelyn Hoppa
October 17, 2019 2 mins read
Are you interested in submitting a talk to GraphConnect 2020? Read this blog to learn about the call for papers deadline and submission details.
Keywords: call for papers • graph database • GraphConnect 2020 • neo4j • Neo4j Community
Innovate In Less Than a Week: 5-Minute Interview with Alessandro Svensson
By Deb Cameron
September 6, 2019 6 mins read
Check out this 5-minute interview with Alessandro Svensson and discover the features and benefits of Neo4j’s Innovation Lab.
Keywords: 5-minute interview • Alessandro Svensson • Connected Data • data model • data science • design thinking • fast prototyping • graph database • graph modeling • graph representation
#GraphCast: How Graphs Are Used around the Globe
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
May 10, 2019 2 mins read
Check out this week’s #GraphCast, featuring graph technology users from around the world talking about how they use Neo4j to solve connected data problems.
Keywords: Adobe • Data Visualization • Global Graph Celebration Day • Graph Theory • GraphCast • Leonhard Euler • machine learning • nasa • Neo4j Bloom • Panama Papers
How Real-Time Recommendations Increase Revenues, Optimize Margins and Delight Customers [Infographic]
By Jocelyn Hoppa
November 8, 2018 2 mins read
“You may also like” sounds simple, but there’s a lot happening behind the scenes. Real-time recommendations work best when they take into account both the user’s needs (what is of interest to them) and your business strategy (items you need… Read more →
Keywords: business rules • collaborative filtering • financial services • government services • graph platform • graph technology • Healthcare • knowledge-based filtering • neo4j • real-time recommendations
Graphs4Good: Connected Data for a Better World
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
September 20, 2018 6 mins read
You’re reading this because of a napkin. It was the year 2000, and I was on a flight to Mumbai. Peter, Johan and I had been building an enterprise content management system (ECM) but kept running up against the challenge… Read more →
Keywords: Connected Data • data journalism • data science • fake news • graph technology • Graphs4Good • icij • nasa • Neo4j Community • Panama Papers
Integrate Neo4j with RDKit for the Google Summer of Code [2018]
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
March 9, 2018 3 mins read
We’ll get straight to the point: We’re looking for a student willing to participate to Google Summer of Code to develop a integration of RDKit into Neo4j. The project will be supported by one of the largest chemistry companies of… Read more →
Keywords: chemical research • data management • data processing • Google Summer of Code • knowledge graphs • materials sciences • medicinal chemistry • open source • Postgres • RDKit
Network Science: The Hidden Field behind Machine Learning, Economics and Genetics That You’ve (Probably) Never Heard of – An Interview with Dr. Aaron Clauset [Part 2]
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
February 22, 2018 7 mins read
Last week, in part one of my interview with Dr. Aaron Clauset, we reviewed how network science was evolving and how it’s dismantling preconceived notions about networks in general. Clauset also stressed the crucial role of interdisciplinary collaboration when it… Read more →
Keywords: computational biology • computational social science • Connected Data • deep learning • ICON dataset • link prediction • machine learning • Netflix Prize • Network Science • Network Visualization
Network Science: The Hidden Field behind Machine Learning, Economics and Genetics That You’ve (Probably) Never Heard of – An Interview with Dr. Aaron Clauset [Part 1]
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
February 13, 2018 9 mins read
I recently had the opportunity to combine work and pleasure and meet with Dr. Aaron Clauset, an expert on network science, data science and complex systems. In 2016, Clauset won the Erdos-Renyi Prize in Network Science but you might be… Read more →
Keywords: complex systems • cybersecurity • data science • economics • genetics • graph algorithms • ICON dataset • machine learning • Network Science • social network
7VORTEX: Systems Thinking Powered by Graph Technology
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
October 10, 2017 5 mins read
The success of many enterprises greatly depends on their ability to gather useful information and process it in a timely manner. Automation is essential and so is presentation, giving tangible feedback, to decision makers. This is where technology reaches out… Read more →
Keywords: biology • Connected Data • graph algorithms • graph technology • graph visualization • GraphAware • graphconnect • natural language processing • nlp • PageRank
Neo4j Life Sciences & Healthcare Workshop – Proceedings from Berlin
By Michael Hunger
September 29, 2017 9 mins read
Often invisible to the people outside of the field, life science researchers have been quietly embracing graph databases instead of the traditional triple and relational stores. On June 21, we invited a group of life science and healthcare researchers and… Read more →
Keywords: Bioinformatics • computational biology • cypher • drug development • Healthcare • intermine • Knowledge Graph • Life Sciences • network biology • systems biology
Integrating All of Biology into a Public Neo4j Database
By Rachel Howard
June 20, 2017 8 mins read
Editor’s Note: This presentation was given by Daniel Himmelstein at GraphConnect San Francisco in October 2016. Summary Himmelstein started his PhD research with the question: How do you teach a computer biology? He found the answer in a heterogenous network… Read more →
Keywords: biology • digitalocean • docker • drug repurposing • graphconnect • heterogeneous network • hetnet • machine learning • property graph • python
Accelerating Scientific Research through Machine Learning and Graphs
By Joy Chao
May 22, 2017 18 mins read
Editor’s Note: This presentation was given by Jorge Soto and Antonio Molins at GraphConnect San Francisco in October 2016. Here’s a quick review of what they covered: Introduction to the role of microRNA Monitoring microRNAs Applying the method to stomach… Read more →
Keywords: breast cancer • data analysis • graphconnect • Hadoop • Hive • machine learning • microfluidics • microRNA • natural language processing • stomach cancer
The 5-Minute Interview: Stephan Reiling, Senior Scientist at Novartis
By Rachel Howard
April 14, 2017 3 mins read
“Cypher, for us, is really the killer feature of Neo4j,” said Stephan Reiling, Senior Scientist at Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research. The Novartis team recently embarked on a project to bring together huge volumes of disparate biological data, which they… Read more →
Keywords: 5-minute interview • batch importer • biological data • biomedical research • bulk data import • cypher • Medicine • Novartis • pharmaceuticals • text mining
This Week in Neo4j – 8 April 2017
By Mark Needham
April 8, 2017 5 mins read
Welcome to this week in Neo4j, where we round up what’s been happening in the world of graph database in the last seven days. This week we look at how to create a Twitter clone using Neo4j, the Neo4j data… Read more →
Keywords: APOC • cypher • D3.js • data science • docker • Gephi • jqassistant • Jupyter • malware analysis • PageRank