Overview
Ontoforce offers DISQOVER, a life sciences-specific semantic layer that unifies biomedical data into a knowledge graph for research, clinical, and regulatory teams. The platform provides data search, visualization, collaboration, and AI/ML capabilities to help researchers move faster with accurate, traceable context.
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- On November 12, we're hosting Data and Trust in the Age of AI Agents in Boston, an afternoon for a small group of data and AI leaders in life sciences. Many teams are now asking the same question: how do you get answers and outputs from AI that you can trust, without creating new bottlenecks of checking and rechecking? That's what we'll explore together, with talks from industry and our own team, followed by an open roundtable. The lineup: • Kirti Snigdha, Yigit K. and Nicholas Baro of Johnson & Johnson, on knowledge graphs as the
- Is AI really saving your team time? Join us on November 19 to see AI answers that are 100% traceable to source, verified in one click ☑️ In this live webinar, Lieven Poelman and Tobias Corne will show how AI connected to harmonized life sciences data takes you from question to verified evidence, with examples in target identification and clinical trials. Wherever you are with AI, there’s something here for you: ☑️ If you’re just getting started, see what becomes possible when AI works with your research data, and what it takes to
- BioTechX Europe 2026 is a wrap. What a week we had in Basel! 🤝 Thank you to everyone who stopped by the ONTOFORCE booth. It was great to catch up with many familiar faces, and just as great to meet so many new ones. 💬 Many conversations kept coming back to the same themes: the power of the semantic layer, data governance, and trusting AI outputs. Dr.-Ing. Lars von Wedel Von Wedel from Grünenthal and ONTOFORCE's Lieven Poelman explored these themes in their session, discussing how an agent can traverse the knowledge graph in
- AI agents can answer a research question in seconds. Checking where that answer came from can still take hours. And the more data sources your agents draw on, the longer that check takes. Every system names things its own way and there's often no reliable way for the agent to know they're the same thing. ⭐️ On Thursday, October 22, Lieven Poelman (VP R&D) and Tobias Corne (Scientific Data Solution Lead) will look at what agents need underneath them to give answers your scientists can trace back to the source. Join us 👇
- Thank you to everyone who joined Lieven Poelman and Dr.-Ing. Lars von Wedel from Grünenthal Group at BioTechX today. The question on the table: pharma companies are racing to put agents to work, but how do you trust what comes back? They covered how an agent traverses the knowledge graph in DISQOVER to do the target assessment work that was previously pieced together by hand across PubMed and other sources. At the core is a semantic layer that keeps every answer traceable, verifiable, and reproducible. Want to see it for yourself?
- Every pharma company is racing to put agents to work. Fewer have solved the harder problem: making sure their outputs are right and actionable. At BioTechX Europe on October 6, our VP R&D Lieven Poelman will be joined on stage by Dr.-Ing. Lars von Wedel from Grünenthal to share a real deployment, not a concept. They will walk through how an agent traverses the knowledge graph in DISQOVER to do target assessment work that scientists have historically done by hand across PubMed and other scattered sources. Then unpack how
- Most life sciences research data still lives in disconnected systems, spreadsheets, and silos, which makes it hard to trust the AI built on top of it. On 1 October, ONTOFORCE and QIAGEN Digital Insights show what changes when that data resolves into one connected, traceable layer instead.⚡️Not to be missed insights for the life sciences and pharma industries! Join us live. 👇
- QIAGEN Digital Insights's Omics, Technology & AI Summit is happening today in Cambridge, MA. ONTOFORCE's Alejandro Parralejo Jiménez will be in attendance, speaking on searchable and decision-ready data. 👉 For those located in the area, there's still room to join the event. This will be a great opportunity to connect with fellow biotech and biopharma professionals and hear from industry leaders.
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