The CHIASMA Partners Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine (IUF), Seven Past Nine (7P9), and University of Birmingham (UoB) have co-authored report documenting the first workshop of the ELIXIR Toxicology Community, held in Utrecht on May 28-29, 2024 (FAIRification of Toxicological Research Output: Leveraging ELIXIR Resources, 2024), as part of the INTOXICOM Implementation Study workshop series (Integrating the Toxicology Community into ELIXIR, 2024). The main topic of the meeting was the FAIRification of toxicological research outputs and exploring the potential role of ELIXIR resources in this process.
The report, entitled ‘INTOXICOM Workshop Report: FAIRification of Toxicological Research Output: Leveraging ELIXIR Resources’, describes the outcomes of the workshop, provides links to presentations (when applicable), and discusses the initial hands-on results that emerged from collaborative sessions.
One of the goals of the workshop was to promote the use of compact identifiers in project reporting. Compact identifiers are short but meaningful references to identifiers for entities like proteins, genes, metabolites, and nanomaterials. A draft guidance document has been under development and is available at github.com/egonw/compact-ids-in-reports.
FAIR Implementation Plans, Cookbooks and Recipes
The workshop had a stimulating discussion and resulted in new output that feeds back into the ELIXIR Toxicology Community (e.g. via this report) and via the two FAIR Implementation Plans (FIPs), three FAIR Cookbook recipes, and other outcomes back into the wider ELIXIR and toxicology communities. Both the recipes and the cookbook need further work, and, more importantly, adoption by toxicologists. Of course, the workshop was relatively short to complete output as intended, which is reflected in the nature of the cited results, and for the FIPs there are not even tangible results that can be linked to, at the time of writing.
To read the full report, follow this link.
