A few weeks ago OpenTox Euro 2016 meeting was held in Rheinfelden at the German/Swiss border (which allowed me a nice stroll across the Rhine into Switzerland and by a nice x-mas countdown clock. The meeting was co-located with eNanoMapper-hosted meetings, where we discussed, among other things the nanoinformatics roadmaps, that outline where research in this area should go to.

There were many interesting talks, around various data initiatives, adverse outcome pathways (AOPs) and their links to molecular initiating events (MIEs), and ontologies (like the AOP ontology talk by ). In fact, I quite enjoyed the discussion with Chris Grulke about ontologies during the panel discussion. Central was, where is the border between data and ontological concepts. Some slides are available via Lanyrd.

For a local grant acquisition course I recently gave a presentation about Open Access (OA). My interest in OA started from my Open Science background and lack of access to literature was a serious problem. Journals were invented to make knowledge dissemination easier, but many publishers are stuck with outdated technologies that make their knowledge dissemination not caught up with the 21st century.

I'm excited to have contributed to this important (IMHO) interoperability paper around metabolomics data: "SPLASH, a hashed identifier for mass spectra" (doi:10.1038/nbt.3689, readcube:msZj). A huge thanks to all involved in the great collaborative project! The source code project is fully open source and coordinated by Gert Wolgemuth, the lead author on this paper.
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