new paper: "The future of metabolomics in ELIXIR"

CC-BY from F1000 article.

This spring I attended a meeting organized by researchers from the European metabolomics community, including from PhenoMeNal to talk about proposing a use case to ELIXIR. Doing research in metabolomics and being part of ELIXIR, I was happy that meeting happened. During the meeting I presented the work from our BiGCaT group (e.g. WikiPathways, see doi:10.1093/nar/gkv1024).

During the meeting various metabolomics topics were discussed, and I pushed for interoperability of chemical (metabolic) structures, which requires structure normalization, equivalence testing, etc. You know, the kind of work that partners in Open PHACTS did, and that we're now trying to bootstrap with ChemStructMaps. It did not make it, but ideas are included in the selected topic.

All this you can read in this meeting write up, peer-reviewed in F1000Research (doi:10.12688/f1000research.12342.1). I am happy to have been given the opportunity to contribute to this work. The work in our group (e.g. from our PhD student Denise) can surely contribute to this community effort.

 Van Rijswijk M, Beirnaert C, Caron C, Cascante M, Dominguez V, Dunn WB, et al. The future of metabolomics in ELIXIR. F1000Research. 2017 Sep;6:1649+. 10.12688/f1000research.12342.1.