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ELIXIR INTOXICOM
New approaches such as high throughput cell-based assays, omics data and imaging have led to an increase in toxicological data. To innovate risk assessment, exchange and reuse of data between researchers, regulatory and industrial stakeholders becomes increasingly important. To this end, the concept of FAIR data (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) is useful and needed, in particular as biological and chemical data interoperability issues exist.
ELIXIR recognized the importance of toxicology and an ELIXIR Toxicology Community has now been established. The Community aims to align FAIR and open data solutions from toxicology with ELIXIR services and resources. To establish this, existing open solutions for data integration across toxicological domains will be disseminated.
This project aims to organize a series of online webinars and onsite workshops in collaboration with the ELIXIR Platforms to:
- demonstrate and disseminate FAIR-ification of toxicological research output (not limited to data);
- development of guidance for Research Output Management Plans (software, standards, etc) ;
- develop a roadmap, training, and best practices for making toxicology services ready for EOSC;
- optimize and synchronize the toxicology educational resources in an ELIXIR TeSS-based collection; and
- leverage/train the toxicological community on the systems biology resources/tools within ELIXIR to foster quantitative adverse outcome pathway design and use of these towards risk assessment.
The INTOXICOM (Integrating the Toxicology Community into ELIXIR) project is a 2-year project that started January 2024. The project includes participation from 6 national ELIXIR nodes and is funded through ELIXIR Europe, under the ELIXIR work program 2019-2023.
Health-RI is host of the ELIXIR Netherlands (ELIXIR-NL) node. In this project we work together with 2 member institutes from ELIXIR-NL (Maastricht University and TNO) and 5 other national ELIXIR nodes. Meike Bünger, Community Manager in the Life Science team of Health-RI, participates in this project to support FAIR data in the Toxicology Community by facilitating the outreach and workshops that are part of this project.
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