Some years ago we started the ELIXIR Toxicology Community. It has been an interesting journey, partly covered in this whitepaper). We started with interaction we had in several projects already, but particularly the potential. I see this. This series of posts is a number of things toxicology projects can do to benefit from ELIXIR solutions ("services"). The posts have been sent first to the ELIXIR Toxicology Community mailing list (please join!).
History
In this post, let's look at Bioschemas annotation. Our community has been collaborating with the Bioschemas project for a long time. The development of the ChemicalSubstance profile was started by our community at one of the earlier ELIXIR BioHackathon Europe events. The "ChemicalSubstance" (ChemicalSubstance/0.4-RELEASE) is the material equivalent of "MolecularEntity" that was already being developed. ChemicalSubstance is used in various places, see bioschemas.org/developer/liveDeploys and select the ChemicalSubstance profile.
We have also been using Bioschemas annotation of training material, see https://www.dtls.nl/2018/07/19/toxicology-data-management-tutorials This is still being used in some of the projects I am involved in.
Third, multiple NanoSafety Clusters are very actively using "Dataset" annotation to make them findable in Google's Dataset Search. For example, notice the mention of nanocommons.github.io when searching for "toxicity nanomaterial": datasetsearch.research.google.com/search?query=toxicology%20nanomaterial That shows up because of the Bioschemas annotation on this NanoCommons overview of citable (i.e. with DOI) and openly licensed datasets: nanocommons.github.io/datasets/ We're also working with data platform developers in the NanoSafety Cluster to use such annotation, supporting the F in FAIR.
Why adopt Bioschemas
Bioschemas is a life sciences-oriented extension of schema.org, a platform originally set up by the major search engines, as clear from the Google Dataset Search engine.
What can you do
Joining this effort helps make the research output of your toxicology project more FAIR. Bioschemas (and schema.org) annotation can be added to any HTML page. The Bioschemas project can assist. We want to organize workshops this year to work with toxicology projects for wider adoption. But please feel encouraged to ask questions on this mailing list prior to such activities. One thing I am particularly interested in, is people interested in setting up web sites with information and data about specific chemicals or nanomaterials.
Please also feel encouraged to reply if you already used schema.org or Bioschemas in any of your projects to share your experiences.
Let's make toxicology more FAIR.
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