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ArticleJournal of biomedical semantics2025

Digital evolution: Novo Nordisk's shift to ontology-based data management.

Shawn Zheng Kai Tan, Shounak Baksi, Thomas Gade Bjerregaard, Preethi Elangovan, Thrishna Kuttikattu Gopalakrishnan, Darko Hric, Joffrey Joumaa, Beidi Li, Kashif Rabbani, Santhosh Kannan Venkatesan and 2 more

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Article in Journal of biomedical semantics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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  2. Navigating open-source waters: the pharmaceutical industry's role in bioontology development.Database : the journal of biological databases and curation · 2025
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Shawn Zheng Kai TanNovo Nordisk A/S, Novo Nordisk Park 1, Måløv, 2760, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0001-7258-9596
Shounak BaksiNovo Nordisk A/S, Novo Nordisk Park 1, Måløv, 2760, Denmark.
Thomas Gade BjerregaardNovo Nordisk A/S, Novo Nordisk Park 1, Måløv, 2760, Denmark.
Preethi ElangovanNovo Nordisk A/S, Novo Nordisk Park 1, Måløv, 2760, Denmark.
Thrishna Kuttikattu GopalakrishnanNovo Nordisk A/S, Novo Nordisk Park 1, Måløv, 2760, Denmark.
Darko HricNovo Nordisk A/S, Novo Nordisk Park 1, Måløv, 2760, Denmark.
Joffrey JoumaaNovo Nordisk A/S, Novo Nordisk Park 1, Måløv, 2760, Denmark.
Beidi LiNovo Nordisk A/S, Novo Nordisk Park 1, Måløv, 2760, Denmark.
Kashif RabbaniNovo Nordisk A/S, Novo Nordisk Park 1, Måløv, 2760, Denmark.
Santhosh Kannan VenkatesanNovo Nordisk A/S, Novo Nordisk Park 1, Måløv, 2760, Denmark.
Joshua Daniel ValdezNovo Nordisk A/S, Novo Nordisk Park 1, Måløv, 2760, Denmark. jdnv@novonordisk.com.
Saritha Vettikunnel KuriakoseNovo Nordisk A/S, Novo Nordisk Park 1, Måløv, 2760, Denmark. szvk@novonordisk.com.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The amount of biomedical data is growing, and managing it is increasingly challenging. While Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) data principles provide guidance, their adoption has proven difficult, especially in larger enterprises like pharmaceutical companies. In this manuscript, we describe how we leverage an Ontology-Based Data Management (OBDM) strategy for digital transformation in Novo Nordisk Research & Early Development. Here, we include both our technical blueprint and our approach for organizational change management. We further discuss how such an OBDM ecosystem plays a pivotal role in the organization's digital aspirations for data federation and discovery fuelled by artificial intelligence. Our aim for this paper is to share the lessons learned in order to foster dialogue with parties navigating similar waters while collectively advancing the efforts in the fields of data management, semantics and data driven drug discovery.

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Biological OntologiesData ManagementArtificial IntelligenceDrug DiscoverySemanticsData managementData strategyFAIROntologyPharmaceutical industry

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PMID40121504
PMCPMC11929979

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