The NanoCommons EU Project consortium, in collaboration with the EU NanoSafety Cluster projects, is delighted to announce the “Nano-week” and NanoCommons Final Conference, to be held this summer, in Limassol, Cyprus (with virtual participation also possible for selected sessions). The conference and associated events (e.g., Young NanoSafety Researchers event, Training events from across the nanosafety…
On Thursday 2nd December 2021, the NanoCommon team, in a joint initiative with the EU NanoSafety Cluster, will offer an online workshop/hackathon on their Knowledge Base (NC KB), termed “The NanoCommons Knowledge Base: how to find all data for one nanomaterial across multiple data sources”. Data retrievals & uploads will be showcased using the features of…
Activity details The H2020 research e-infrastructure project NanoCommons is fostering collaborative research by trying to bring the nanosafety community together to work hands-on on the establishment of ways to make data and software platforms, developed in the different projects, to talk to each other. In order to give this a major push, we are now organising a…
On Thu, 24 June 2021 a team of the EU H2020 projects NanoRigo and NanoCommons, in collaboration with the EU NanoSafety Cluster WG-A on Education, Training, and Communication conducted a session dedicated to theme of Risk Governance at the 10th Nanosafety Training School: from Basic Science to Risk Governance – Interprofessional Education Training School 2021. Martin Himly, Sabine Hofer and Nobert Hofstaetter (University of Salzburg), as well as Dmitri Ciornii…
The 10th edition of the Venice NanoSafety Training School will be held on a virtual platformDue to the current COVID pandemic and the restrictions imposed by the Italian Government on face-to-face events, the Organising Committee has taken the difficult decision to not postpone further and organise the School as a virtual event to ensure the safety of all attendees.…
On Tuesday 13th April 2021, the H2020 project NanoCommons, in a joint initiative with the NanoSafety Cluster (NSC) and supported by the developments in the H2020 project NanoSolveIT, organized an online webinar on “Online QSAR Modelling Hackathon by Easy Access to Jaqpot”. It was a well-attended webinar, with active and very interested participants who communicated their appreciation at the end of the…
Calling all nanosafety tools developers! NanoCommons is offering funded support for integration of tools (predictive models, PBPK modelling applications, computational pipelines, databases, decision trees, etc.) with the NanoCommons e-infrastructure, to support interoperability and long-term sustainability of the nanosafety community outputs via a toolbox of community accepted standards. NanoCommons funded access provides expert support and…
On Tuesday 13th April, 2021, 15:00 – 16:30 CEST, NanoCommons will offer an entry-level workshop on in silico nanotoxicology, providing users with easy (no installations required) access to Jaqpot (https://app.jaqpot.org), a powerful and versatile nanotoxicological in silico prediction platform, enabled through powerful Google Colab notebooks. Users will receive training from the expert team from the…
Authors: Martin Himly Contributors: Marvin Martens, Haralambos Sarimveis, Philip Doganis, Iseult Lynch Building on the hugely successful set of webinars and online training events that NanoCommons ran in 2020 as part of our adaption to the Covid-19 travel restrictions, a similar series of virtual training events and hackathons is planned for 2021. While the exact…
Authors: Egon Willighagen and Iseult Lynch Text mining for (nano)materials is far from trivial. The proprietary SpringerNature Nano database extracts information for many materials, but it is not easy to find materials of a certain size in this database. Use of identifiers in text, for example as compact identifiers1, supports text mining. In a small…
Authors: Thomas Exner, Dieter Maier, Tassos Papadiamantis and Iseult Lynch In order to support as many projects as possible with their data management needs and become a one-stop shop to search and retrieve all available nanosafety related data, NanoCommons offers two ways to integrate project data into the NanoCommons knowledge base and supports them via…
Authors: Egon Willighagen The difference between a dataset and a database is not unlike food ingredients and a dinner. Databases are like the ready-to-eat dinners, sometimes in a fancy restaurant (read: the database has an application programming interface), sometimes at home (nice website). Datasets are what you need to cook the dinner, the ingredients. And…
Authors: Laurent Winckers and Egon Willighagen Version 7 of the eNanoMapper Ontology1 (ENM) (currently maintained and developed via NanoCommons funding) was released on the 4th February 2021. This new version houses annotation properties from various related ontologies, including the BioAssay Ontology (BAO), the Chemical Information Ontology2 (CHEMINF), the NanoParticle Ontology (NPO), the Relation Ontology (RO)…
NanoCommons will actively participate in the NSC Training Day taking place as a satellite event during the NanoSAfe 2020 Digital Conference. In Room 1 the NanoCommons team will present the NanoXtract tool, used to calculate ENM descriptors from TEM images and how the tool is directly linked to the NanoCommons knowledgebase: 10:00-12:00 Interactive training on “NanoXtract…
Monday 23 November 2020 In depth training contributions (as proposed) by individual projects For participation in the NanoSafety Cluster Education Day please register here. Room 1Hands-on Training on Nanosafety Tools and Models To join the NSC Training Day: Room 1 – Hands-on Training on Nanosafety Tools and Models click HERERoom 2NanoSafety Stakeholder engagement, Diplomacy, Regulation and Risk Governance…
NSC Education Day, 16 Nov 2020 Supporting Materials Dashboard General information Joining link: https://nanosafetycluster.virtualrooms.actandmatch.com/nanosafety-cluster-2020 Session 2: Exposure & life cycle assessment – determination & modelling 10:45-11:00 h: Life cycle thinking in nanoform release assessment: https://www.menti.com/756iihwgva Session 3: Data FAIRness, metadata completeness, scientific quality assurance 11:10 – 11:35 h CET: Thomas Exner from Edelweiss Connect will…
NanoCommons participates in the NanoSafe 2020 Digital Conference taking place between 17 – 20 Nov 2020. NanoCommons’ oral and poster presentations include: Oral Presentations Lecture Topic 1 – Advanced materials characterization, metrology and standardization Lecture Session 1a – Tue, 17 Nov 2020, Room 1 Papadiamantis et al. – Metadata Stewardship in Nanosafety Research: Significance and…
The NanoCommons project will actively participate in the NSC Education Day satellite event during the NanoSafe Digital Conference 2020. The NanoSolveIT partners will present some of the in silico tools developed by the consortium and collaborating projects like NanoSolveIT. The sessions that NanoSolveIT participates in: Session 1: New developments in human hazard assessment – focus…
NanoCommons has a strong presence during the EU NanoSafety Cluster Education Day, taking place as a satellite event to the NanoSafe 2020 Digital Conference on 16 Nov 2020. Thomas Exner from Edelweiss Connect will host two interactive sessions, the first at 11:10-11:35 h CET, on “When is a metadata set complete”. This session will include…
EU NanoSafety Cluster (NSC) General Assembly @ NanoSAFE Digital Conference, 16 Nov 2020 The next EU NSC General Assembly will take place during the NanoSafe Digital Conference. Agenda 13:00-13:15 Welcome and Statement from the European Commission (Soren Bowadt) 13:15-13:40 Actions since last meeting 13:40-13:50 Pre-recorded statements from each WG 13:50-14:00 Progress of the Malta Initiative…
NanoSafety Cluster (NSC) Education Day @ NanoSAFE, 16 Nov 2020 Intention: This day shall act as guidance for the entire NanoSafety community, including young researchers, to highlight how individual research projects fit as a puzzle piece into the wider picture. It shall be an orientation-giving and educational event depicting the overall strategy behind NanoSafe(ty). For…
Laurent Winckers from the University of Maastricht, presented a poster on expanding the eNanoMapper ontology during 11th International Conference on Biomedical Ontologies. Abstract The NanoCommons Knowledgebase, https://www.nanocommons.eu/nanocommonsknowedge-base/, is an essential component of nanoinformatics and based on an agreed ontology. NanoCommons has continued to expand and develop the eNanoMapper (ENM) ontology to aid toxicological data management…
On Tuesday, July 14th 2020, the NanoCommons team, in a joint initiative with the NanoSafety Cluster, is offering an interactive online workshop on implementing Electronic Laboratory Notebooks (ELNs) for nanosafety assessment. Under the subtitle “Getting into using ELNs for experimental and computational workflows”, you will learn how to establish a workflow using Scinote-based electronic lab notebooks. This starts with an introduction…
The European Commission, led by the European Innovation Council and in close collaboration with the EU member states, will host a pan-European hackathon to connect civil society, innovators, partners and investors across Europe in order to develop innovative solutions for coronavirus-related challenges. Now is your chance to help tackle coronavirus! When? 24, 25 and 26…
The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) and the Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (RTD) will jointly organise a Workshop on Safe and Sustainable Smart Nanomaterials in Ispra (Italy) on 24-25 March 2020. The workshop is focused on smart (responsive, multi-functional) nanomaterials, as such or embedded in products, which are developed for application in industrial sectors such…
The Month 24 NanoCommons General Assembly (GA) will take place during the week 1 – 7 February 2020 in Reykjavik, Iceland. During the meeting, to take place on 5 February 2020, the NanoCommons partners will discuss the current project advancements, following a successful period 1 review, and set the targets for year 3. The NanoCommons…
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The final OpenRiskNet workshop will take place on 23 – 24 October 2019 in Amsterdam, Netherlands and will be hosted by Vrije Universiteit. The OpenRiskNet project, developing and implementing an open e-infrastructure addressed to research and industrial communities performing risk assessment of consumer products like chemicals, cosmetics or drugs, is in its third and final…
NanoCommons sponsored the 1st International Young Scientists Forum that took place, as a satellite event, during the 12th International Particle Toxicology Conference. NanoCommons coordinator Prof Iseult Lynch along with NanoCommons partners Albert Duschl, Martin Himly and Andrea Haase were part of the organising and scientific committees. Iseult gave a keynote presentation on “Naming of nanomaterials…
Following the work of Dr Egon Willighagen of the University of Maastricht and the NanoCommons Consortium, the second NanoCommons draft data management plan (Deliverable Report 10.1 v 2.0) is now available to view online. The report is available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0). This deliverable presents the data management plan (DMP) for the…
NanoCommons was present during the concluding NanoFASE meeting and conference that took place on 5-6 September 2019 in Vienna, Austria. NanoFASE has been a close NanoCommons partner. NanoCommons and NanoFASE experts have been collaborating on the project’s data management and handling at both case study and Transnational Access level. NanoFASE will be the first large-scale…
NanoCommons will be present and presenting its actions and the benefits of nanotechnology on everyday life during the Science is Wonferful! expo to take place in Brussels, Belgium on 25-26 September 2019. Science is Wonderful! is a free exhibition which brings the world of science to the public. Fighting cancer, slowing down global warming, preventing…
Version 6.0 of the NanoCommons sponsored eNanoMapper ontology is now online! Version 6 of the eNanoMapper Ontology (ENM) was released on the 30th August 2019. ENM now covers 12732 classes, compared with 12531 classes in version 5. What’s new in version 6 New NCIT version (submission 82 instead of 41 on BioPortal) Includes OECD Testing…
The new refreshed and modern EU NanoSafety Cluster website designed and built with the help of NanoCommons and hosted by NanoSolveIT is now online! Visit the new website, subscribe and contribute to our community and let us know what you think!
NanoCommons supported paper: Read-across predictions of nanoparticle hazard endpoints: a mathematical optimization approach Abstract In the present study, a novel read-across methodology for the prediction of toxicity related end-points of engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) is developed. The proposed method lies in the interface between the two main read-across approaches, namely the analogue and the grouping methods,…
Egon Willighagen from the University of Maastricht has given a presentation on the need for FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) identifiers for nanomaterials used in nanosafety, nanomedicine and nanotechnology research. The presentation was given during the 4th NanoCommons General Assembly that took place in Limassol, Cyprus in July 2019. The presentation is available…
NanoCommons will have a strong presence during the EuroNanoForum 2019 taking place between 12 and 14 of June in Bucharest, Romania. NanoCommons will be part of the EU NanoSafety Cluster Delegation comprising of 18 projects, more than 30 participants and a large booth promoting nanosafety and nanotechnology research in Europe and beyond. NanoCommons is also…
EU NanoSafety Cluster WeekBuilding confidence in risk assessmentand governance of nanomaterials innovation NanoSafety Cluster Week Building confidence in risk assessment and governance of nanomaterials innovation Save the date October 7-10, Copenhagen Abstract deadline: 13 September 2019 (Posters only) Following the conference “New tools and approaches for nanomaterials safety assessment” in February 2017, The NanoSafety Cluster…
Workshop, Hackathon (co-organised by OpenRiskNet and NanoCommons) 13 – 14 Dec 2018 / Brussels, BE Activity details The goal of this meeting is to get a picture of the ongoing ontology activities in the toxicology area, harmonise these efforts and the developed ontologies therein, and extend the existing toxicology ontology to support OpenRiskNet and NanoCommons…
The CORBEL* Open Call invites researchers from academia and industry to apply to access a wide range of high-end technologies and services from more than 20 facilities from 10 different research infrastructures across Europe. These include state-of-the-art offers from the fields of advanced imaging, biobanking, clinical and translational research, curated databases, marine model organisms, mouse…
NanoCommons supported paper: A safe-by-design tool for functionalised nanomaterials through the Enalos Nanoinformatics Cloud platform Abstract Multi-walled carbon nanotubes are currently used in numerous industrial applications and products, therefore fast and accurate evaluation of their biological and toxicological effects is of utmost importance. Computational methods and techniques, previously applied in the area of cheminformatics for…
NanoCommons believes that FAIR data can boost for Resarch & Innovation and provide insights that would be otherwise not possible. In that sense, NanoCommons is taking actions to implement the FAIR principles and make FAIR data reality. The European Commission Expert Group on Turning FAIR Data publishes an Interim Report and and Action Plan with…
The first NanoCommons sponsored eNanoMapper ontology is now online! Version 5 of the eNanoMapper Ontology (ENM) was released on the 13th of September 2018. ENM now covers 12531 classes, compared with 10881 classes in version 4. What’s new in version 5 Now based on BFO 2 New 3rd party ontology versions Includes most JRC nanomaterials…
Egon Willighagen (Maastricht University) will be attending the 2018 WikiPathways Summit to take place between 8-10 October 2018 in San Francisco, CA, USA. To celebrate 10 years of open science, the WikiPathways team is hosting a 3-day summit at Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco featuring seminars and hands-on workshops. Each day of the event is themed to…
The 1st NanoCommons Hackathon on “Ontological Annotation of Datasets” is co-organised by H2020 projects NanoCommons and OpenRiskNet. The hackathon will take place during the afternoon on 9 October 2018 in conjunction with the next NanoCommons Consortium Meeting (8-9 October 2018) and the OpenTox Euro Conference (8-11 October 2018) in Athens, Greece. The participants will work…
NanoCommons’ Éva Valsami-Jones (University of Birmingham and ACEnano coordinator) and Claus Svendsen (Centre for Ecology and Hydrology and NanoFASE coordinator) will be attending the 2018 US-EU Communities of Research meeting to take place between 8-11 October 2018 in Washington DC, USA. The 2018 U.S.-EU: Bridging NanoEHS Research Efforts joint workshop will bring together the U.S.- EU Communities of Research (CoRs), which serve…
The first NanoCommons draft data management plan (Deliverable Report 10.1) is now available to view online. The report is available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0). This deliverable presents the initial data management plan (DMP) for the starting community research infrastructure NanoCommons. It is a living document that will be updated…
The next NanoCommons Consortium Meeting will take place in Athens, Greece (8-9 October 2018) in conjunction with the OpenTox Europe 2018 Conference. During the meeting the NanoCommons team will build on the results of the ongoing tools for the nanosafety community survey and decide on those that will be offered first during the project’s first…
At a recent hackathon organised by the European Research Council, GeneWiki, and others, a group of 25 researchers came together in Berlin to work on ontologically modelling research grants in Wikidata. During this meeting the EU NanoSafety Cluster was used as use case study, resulting in new linked data around the cluster. The Scholia platform…
Asia Nano Forum and EU NanoSafety Cluster Event Location: Messe Wien (Sensengasse 1, A-1090 Vienna, Austria) The 2nd EU-Asia Dialogue on Nanosafety is an event bringing together nanosafety experts, from Asian and European countries. The purpose of this event is to get insights on actual and future human and environmental nanosafety research, to then discuss in the…
NanoCommons ontology expert Egon Willighagen (Maastricht University) and Éva Valsami-Jones (University of Birmingham, NSC Coordinator) attended the workshop organised by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research and Innovation and the European Materials Modelling Council to kick-start a bottom-up group of experts interested in “materials informatics” more particular ontologies. The workshop aimed to find experts who are interested in…
The organisation team of the European conference “INDustrial TECHnologies 2018 – Innovative industries for smart growth” (INDTECH2018) welcomes you to Vienna from 29-31 October, 2018. INDTECH2018, an event of the Austrian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, will combine keynote presentations, talks, a matchmaking event and exhibitions. It provides an excellent opportunity to…
Vladimir Lobaskin (University College Dublin) and Tassos Papadiamantis (University of Birmingham) attended the 2018 eSSENCE Multiscale Modelling Meeting (Ångström Laboratory, 11-13 June, Uppsala, Sweden). The meeting brought together researchers from computational chemistry, physics, biology, materials science and engineering traditionally to discuss the use of traditional physics-based models, and the current excitement about big data and machine…
NanoCommons was present at the OpenTox Asia 2018 conference, organised by Douglas Connect, to promote the project’s data management goals and approach. The presentation on data management for nanosafety research (abstract), was given by Tassos Papadiamantis of the University of Birmingham and focused on the need of data management in nanosafety research and how it can…
Tassos Papadiamantis and Tom Carney (University of Birmingham) are members of the Organising Committee of the 3rd NanoSafety Forum for Young Scientists that is going to take place on 10-11 September 2018, Valletta, Malta. Tassos is also member of the Scientific Committee and will be chairing the thematic session on “Data Modelling, handling and management”. The 3rd…
As the leading international conference on environmental nanoscience, the ICEENN 2018 is being held in partnership with CEINT. ICEENN brings together researchers, regulators and industry to discuss recent advances in our understanding of the fate and behaviour of nanomaterials, their applications in the environmental and the key issues relating to maintaining the economic and social…
The EU NanoSafety Cluster and the Horizon 2020 ACEnano project are proud to announce the 3rd NanoSafety Forum for Young Scientists. The event is a follow-up of the first two meetings, which took place in Syracuse, Sicily and Visby, Sweden, and will take place in Valletta, Malta, on 10th an 11th September 2018. The event is an open forum for young…
The OpenTox Euro series of meetings emerged as a continuation of the EU-funded Health-FP7 project “OpenTox” which was completed successfully in August 2011. Our ambitious plan has been to develop OpenTox further as an infrastructure and community with annual events held in Europe, USA and Asia in the area of predictive toxicology and related fields. The…
The OpenTox Euro series of meetings emerged as a continuation of the EU-funded Health-FP7 project “OpenTox” which was completed successfully in August 2011. Our ambitious plan has been to develop OpenTox further as an infrastructure and community with annual events held in Europe, USA and Asia in the area of predictive toxicology and related fields. The…
Hello world! Our website is now up and running! Although we still make some minor refining on the content, the NanoCommons website is now live and fully functioning! Stay tuned for regular update!
NanoCommons had a strong presence during the EU NanoSafety Cluster Scientific Meeting that took place in Athens, Greece in conjunction with the NanoFASE consortium meeting. Tassos Papadiamantis (University of Birmingham) gave a presentation (slides) on data curation automation and harmonisation, the CEINT NanoInformatics Knowledge Commons (NIKC) curation templates and the use of online lab-books during…
it’s time to get started! NanoCommons is now alive! Following some long proposal writing, sleepless nights and long waiting, the NanoCommons kick-off meeting took place between 29-30 January 2018 in Salzburg, Austria. The meeting was hosted by Paris Lodron University of Salzburg and it included two days of presentations and intense planning for a dynamic project…
