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Oresta S. I. Hewryk
Lead curator · PhD Candidate in Biology
Designs POPPy's ontology and leads the curation pipeline — reconciling taxa, resolving compound structures, and anchoring assertions to primary sources.
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Ian Tong Pan
Cheminformatics & machine-learning engineer · now a PhD student at Duke University
Built POPPy's cheminformatics and machine-learning layer — compound-structure handling, fingerprints, and preparing the graph for downstream ML.
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Patience O'Reilly
Undergraduate researcher
Catalogs and keeps track of primary sources used to construct and upkeep POPPy.
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Joseph D. Romano, PhD, MPhil, MA
Principal investigator · Assistant Professor of Informatics and Pharmacology
Directs the Romano Lab and advises POPPy's biomedical-informatics and knowledge-graph design.
With thanks to collaborators across ethnobotany, cheminformatics, and knowledge-graph engineering whose sources and review make the ontology possible. Interested in contributing? Get in touch →