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. 2012 Oct;8(5):757-760.
doi: 10.1007/s11306-012-0462-0. Epub 2012 Sep 25.

MetaboLights: towards a new COSMOS of metabolomics data management

Christoph Steinbeck  1 , Pablo Conesa, Kenneth Haug, Tejasvi Mahendraker, Mark Williams, Eamonn Maguire, Philippe Rocca-Serra, Susanna-Assunta Sansone, Reza M Salek, Julian L Griffin
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MetaboLights: towards a new COSMOS of metabolomics data management

Christoph Steinbeck et al. Metabolomics. 2012 Oct.

Abstract

Exciting funding initiatives are emerging in Europe and the US for metabolomics data production, storage, dissemination and analysis. This is based on a rich ecosystem of resources around the world, which has been build during the past ten years, including but not limited to resources such as MassBank in Japan and the Human Metabolome Database in Canada. Now, the European Bioinformatics Institute has launched MetaboLights, a database for metabolomics experiments and the associated metadata (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/metabolights). It is the first comprehensive, cross-species, cross-platform metabolomics database maintained by one of the major open access data providers in molecular biology. In October, the European COSMOS consortium will start its work on Metabolomics data standardization, publication and dissemination workflows. The NIH in the US is establishing 6-8 metabolomics services cores as well as a national metabolomics repository. This communication reports about MetaboLights as a new resource for Metabolomics research, summarises the related developments and outlines how they may consolidate the knowledge management in this third large omics field next to proteomics and genomics.

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MetaboLights general outline with repository and reference layer. The reference layer is work currently in progress
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MetaboLights data submission workflow
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MetaboLights search results
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