Neo4j GraphTalk Basel 2019 Bruno Ungermann, Neo4j

1. Welcome!
Neo4j GraphTalk
Health & Life Sciences
bruno.ungermann@neo4j.com

2. Objective of today:
Overview of Graph Technology in Health & Life Science

3. 9.00- 9:30 Breakfast & Networking
9.30- 12.30 Presentations
Introduction to Graph Databases and Neo4j
Bruno Ungermann, Neo4j
The Germany Centre of Diabetes Research Greatly Improves Research Capabilities with Graph Technology
Dr. Alexander Jarasch, Deutsches Zentrum für Diabetesforschung
Big Data in Genomics: How Neo4j enables personalized therapies
Dr. Martin Preusse, Kaiser & Preusse
VoCE: and AI-enhanced Graph DB Illuminates the Real-world Patient Experience
Dr. Anne Bichteler, Semalytix GmbH
Building Intelligent Solutions with Graphs
Stefan Kolmar, Neo4j
13.00 Coffee & Open Discussion
Agenda Health & Life Sciences

4. Complexity

5. Increasing Connectedness

6. Bootcamp

7. Domain Model Logistics Process

8. Traditional Approach: Fixed Schema, Tables

9. Graph Model: Nodes & Relationships
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10. Intuitiveness

11. Flexibility: no fixed schema

12. Flexibility & Agility

13. “We found Neo4j to be literally thousands of times
faster than our prior MySQL solution, with queries
that require 10-100 times less code. Today, Neo4j
provides eBay with functionality that was previously
impossible.” - Volker Pacher, Senior Developer
“Minutes to milliseconds” performance
Queries up to 1000x faster than other tested database types
Speed

14. Discrete Data
Minimally
connected data
Neo4j is designed for data relationships
Other NoSQL
Relational
DBMS
Neo4j Graph DB
Connected Data
Focused on
Data Relationships
Development Benefits
Easy model maintenance
Easy query
Deployment Benefits
Ultra high performance
Minimal resource usage
Use the Right Database for the Right Job

15. Graph Based Success

16. Neo4j - The Graph Company
500+
7/10
12/25
8/10
53K+
100+
250+
450+
Adoption
Top Retail Firms
Top Financial Firms
Top Software Vendors
Customers Partners
• Creator of the Neo4j Graph Platform
• ~250 employees
• HQ in Silicon Valley, other offices include
London, Munich, Paris and Malmö
(Sweden)
• $160M in funding from Morgan Stanley,
Fidelity, Sunstone, Conor, Creandum, and
Greenbridge Capital
• Over 10M+ downloads,
• 250+ enterprise subscription customers
with over half with >$1B in revenue
Ecosystem
Startups in program
Enterprise customers
Partners
Meet up members
Events per year
Industry’s Largest Dedicated Investment in Graphs

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• Record “Cyber Monday” sales
• About 35M daily transactions
• Each transaction is 3-22 hops
• Queries executed in 4ms or less
• Replaced IBM Websphere commerce
• 300M pricing operations per day
• 10x transaction throughput on half the
hardware compared to Oracle
• Replaced Oracle database
• Large postal service with over 500k
employees
• Neo4j routes 10M+ packages daily at peak,
with peaks of 5,000+ routing operations per
second.
Handling Large Graph Work Loads for Enterprises
Real-time promotion
recommendations
Marriott’s Real-time
Pricing Engine
Handling Package
Routing in Real-Time

18. How Neo4j Fits — Common Architecture Patterns
From Disparate Silos
To Cross-Silo Connections
From Tabular Data
To Connected Data
From Data Lake Analytics
to Real-Time Operations

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Common Graph Technology Use Cases
Network & IT Operations
Application Management
Meta Data
Management
Real-Time
Recommendations
Identity & Access
Management, Security
Knowledge
Management
Fraud Detection, AML
Compliance, GDPR

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Biological and Medical Knowledge in heterogeneous networks

21. 21
Biological and Medical Knowledge in heterogeneous networks
neo4j.het.io/browser

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Medical Research
Background
• Italian research center that analyzes cancer
samples from around the world
• Provides state-of-the-art therapeutic and
diagnostic cancer services
Business Problem
• Develop a tool that provides cancer data
insights, tracks workflows and is available to
external researchers
• Relational databases didn’t provide adequate
flexibility
Solution and Benefits
• Easily find complex research data relationships
• Develop complex semantics for genomic
knowledge
• Cancer research is accessible to external
scientists

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Pharmaceutical Research
Business Problem
• Seeking to automate phenotype, compound and
protein cell behaviour research by using
previously documented research more
effectively
• Text mining for research elements like DNA
strings, proteins, RNA, chemicals and diseases
Solution and Benefits
• Found ways to identify compound interaction
behaviour from millions of rearch documents
• Relations between biological entities can be
identified and validated by biological experts
• Still very challenging to keep up to date, add
genomics data, and find a breakthrough
Background
• 5 year long drug discovery research
• Parse & Navigate over 25 Million scientific papers
• Sourced from National Library of Medicine and tagging
of “Medical Subject Headers” (MeSH tags)

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Large Chemical Company: R&D Knowledge Solution
Background
• Provide new ways to search and interact with
internal R&D Knowledge and published scientific
information, highly connected at fact level to
make knowledge actionable
• Thousands of employees in R&D
• Chemicals, Reactions Biologicals, physical-
chemical properties
Company
• 10.000+ employees in R&D
• 70+ R&D locations
• 800 new patents
• 3.000 R&D projects
• 2 Bln R&D budget

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Large Pharmaceutical Company: Enterprise Search
Background
• Personalized Search for 100.000+ employees
• 300.000.000 docs, pptx, pdf, html
• 1 Mln products
• 130.000 projects
• Sources Exchange, Sharepoint, Office 365,
Oracle, Hana, Blogs, Active Directory …..
Background
• 150.000+ employees, 300 locations

27. White Board Session