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. 2017 Sep 6:6:ELIXIR-1649.
doi: 10.12688/f1000research.12342.2. eCollection 2017.

The future of metabolomics in ELIXIR

Merlijn van Rijswijk  1   2 , Charlie Beirnaert  3 , Christophe Caron  4 , Marta Cascante  5 , Victoria Dominguez  4 , Warwick B Dunn  6 , Timothy M D Ebbels  7 , Franck Giacomoni  8 , Alejandra Gonzalez-Beltran  9 , Thomas Hankemeier  2   10 , Kenneth Haug  11 , Jose L Izquierdo-Garcia  12   13 , Rafael C Jimenez  14 , Fabien Jourdan  15 , Namrata Kale  11 , Maria I Klapa  16 , Oliver Kohlbacher  17   18   19 , Kairi Koort  20   21 , Kim Kultima  22 , Gildas Le Corguillé  4   23 , Pablo Moreno  11 , Nicholas K Moschonas  16   24 , Steffen Neumann  25 , Claire O'Donovan  11 , Martin Reczko  26 , Philippe Rocca-Serra  9 , Antonio Rosato  27 , Reza M Salek  11 , Susanna-Assunta Sansone  9 , Venkata Satagopam  28 , Daniel Schober  25 , Ruth Shimmo  20   21 , Rachel A Spicer  11 , Ola Spjuth  29 , Etienne A Thévenot  30 , Mark R Viant  6 , Ralf J M Weber  6 , Egon L Willighagen  31 , Gianluigi Zanetti  32 , Christoph Steinbeck  33
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The future of metabolomics in ELIXIR

Merlijn van Rijswijk et al. F1000Res. .

Abstract

Metabolomics, the youngest of the major omics technologies, is supported by an active community of researchers and infrastructure developers across Europe. To coordinate and focus efforts around infrastructure building for metabolomics within Europe, a workshop on the "Future of metabolomics in ELIXIR" was organised at Frankfurt Airport in Germany. This one-day strategic workshop involved representatives of ELIXIR Nodes, members of the PhenoMeNal consortium developing an e-infrastructure that supports workflow-based metabolomics analysis pipelines, and experts from the international metabolomics community. The workshop established metabolite identification as the critical area, where a maximal impact of computational metabolomics and data management on other fields could be achieved. In particular, the existing four ELIXIR Use Cases, where the metabolomics community - both industry and academia - would benefit most, and which could be exhaustively mapped onto the current five ELIXIR Platforms were discussed. This opinion article is a call for support for a new ELIXIR metabolomics Use Case, which aligns with and complements the existing and planned ELIXIR Platforms and Use Cases.

Keywords: bioinformatics infrastructure; cloud computing; computational workflows; data standards; databases; metabolomics; multi-omics approaches; training.

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Competing interests: No competing interests were disclosed.

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.. Annual count of mentions of the term ‘metabolomics’ (and related terms) in the literature over time, annotated with important milestones in data sharing and standards in metabolomics.
Source: Data from Google Scholar.
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