Deepak Unni

Swiss Personalized Health Network

A national initiative under the leadership of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences. In collaboration with SIB, the SPHN contributes to the development, implementation, and validation of coordinated data infrastructures to make health-relevant data available, interoperable, and shareable for research in Switzerland.

• ·Interfacing with stakeholders to capture semantics and represent them in RDF
• ·Leading the adoption of semantic web technologies for data modeling, knowledge representation, and validation of health-related data
• ·Supporting the development and maintenance of tools for data providers and researchers
• ·Building and deploying and end to end platform for making SPHN-specific datasets discoverable

German Human Genome-Phenome Archive

• ·Worked with the Architecture Working Group to establish the GHGA platform using existing frameworks and well-established standards
• ·Led the Metadata Task Force to build, curate, and maintain the GHGA Metadata Schema

Monarch Initiative

• ·Worked with the API development team to build and improve the Monarch API
• ·Worked closely with the UI development team to improve the Monarch UI
• ·Worked with the data ingest team to investigate new strategies for building and improving the integrated Monarch knowledge graph

Gene Ontology

• ·Worked with developers to extend the scope and functionality of the GO API
• ·Worked with scientists and developers to utilize next generation GO annotations to represent biological systems

Biomedical Data Translator

• ·Worked with collaborators to define standards for representing biological and biomedical data as knowledge graphs
• ·Worked with team members to model different types of biomedical data and coordinated ETL efforts across the project
• ·Developed tools for exchange of data between heterogeneous knowledge graph initiatives

KG-COVID-19

• ·Built a flexible ETL pipeline for generating a knowledge graph with an emphasis on COVID-19 datasets
• ·Assisted in setup of RDF and Neo4j endpoints for the COVID-19 knowledge graph
• ·Engaged with researchers on prioritization of potential therapeutic targets for COVID-19
• ·Integration of the COVID-19 knowledge graph in the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) and the COVID-19 International Research Team (COV-IRT)

• ·Development and maintenance of Apollo, a collaborative genome annotation editing tool
• ·Implementation and maintenance of tools for the Bovine Genome Database and Hymenoptera Genome Database
• ·Implementation, deployment and maintenance of a data warehouse for Bovine genomics (BovineMine), Hymenoptera genomics (HymenopteraMine), and Maize genetics (MaizeMine)