Food and Nutrition services

Name Description ELIXIR Node
ELIXIR Cyprus, ELIXIR Czech Republic, ELIXIR Denmark, ELIXIR Estonia, ELIXIR Finland, ELIXIR France, ELIXIR Germany, ELIXIR Greece, ELIXIR Hungary, ELIXIR Israel, ELIXIR Italy, ELIXIR Luxembourg, ELIXIR Netherlands, ELIXIR Norway, ELIXIR Portugal, ELIXIR Slovenia, ELIXIR Spain, ELIXIR Sweden, ELIXIR Switzerland, ELIXIR UK, EMBL-EBI

Cellular and molecular biology are fundamental to ELIXIR's mission. As part of our 2024–28 Programme, we are committed to advancing data services and software for research on nucleic acids, proteins and other biomolecules. This initiative will address new demands for multi-omics and multi-modal analyses, including imaging, by developing methods and partnerships. We will also expand expertise in reusable data and software to incorporate FAIR models, ensuring robust solutions for modelling at all scales. 

The following projects are key to connecting the latest developments with established data resources, unlocking the potential of cellular and molecular biology:

 ELIXIR Belgium, ELIXIR Czech Republic, ELIXIR France, ELIXIR Greece, ELIXIR Hungary, ELIXIR Italy, ELIXIR Netherlands, ELIXIR Portugal, ELIXIR Slovenia, ELIXIR Spain, ELIXIR Sweden, ELIXIR UK, EMBL-EBI
ELIXIR Belgium, ELIXIR Cyprus, ELIXIR Czech Republic, ELIXIR Denmark, ELIXIR Estonia, ELIXIR Finland, ELIXIR France, ELIXIR Germany, ELIXIR Greece, ELIXIR Hungary, ELIXIR Ireland, ELIXIR Israel, ELIXIR Italy, ELIXIR Luxembourg, ELIXIR Netherlands, ELIXIR Norway, ELIXIR Portugal, ELIXIR Slovenia, ELIXIR Spain, ELIXIR Sweden, ELIXIR Switzerland, ELIXIR UK, EMBL-EBI
ELIXIR Greece, ELIXIR Netherlands, ELIXIR Spain
ELIXIR Netherlands

The Food and Nutrition (F&N) Community has already collated datasets, FAIRified several of its data sources and developed tools that would be immediately available for the meaningful harmonization, integration and analysis of these datasets. However, to date, efforts are still fragmented and the integration requires a wide range of data science, better ontologies, improved databases, data harmonization, algorithms and tools for easy sharing and dissemination of the data. This Implementation Study describes the integration of human gut microbiome, metabolomics and dietary data of nutrition studies, as a first example how the F&N Community can benefit from ELIXIR and vice versa.

 ELIXIR Netherlands, ELIXIR UK, EMBL-EBI, ELIXIR Denmark, ELIXIR Italy, ELIXIR France, ELIXIR Belgium, ELIXIR Ireland

The ELIXIR Metabolomics Community relies on standards, formats and data treatment solutions development and adoption, but it remains challenging to ensure high-quality reported metadata, sufficiently contextualised results, interoperable and reusable datasets and to integrate these metabolomics data with other omics or studies. 

This project is designed to address these issues and aims to connect key international standards with ELIXIR resources, as well as creating associated community guidelines and training materials. 

Based on the FAIRification framework, activities in the project will:

  • Increase interoperability and reuse of public metabolomics datasets and workflows through enhanced and extended open data standards, resources and new semantic annotations
  • Define, ensure and establish quality control for study baselines in Metabolomics and Exposomics
  • Facilitate metabolomic data interpretation and meta-analysis integration with multi-omics and systems biology studies

As a first necessary step, the project will create a Semantic Metabolomics Data Model to standardise metadata, ensuring unambiguous reuse of metabolomics projects. This model will focus on integrating key ontologies, providing open training initiative and enhancing the interoperability of metabolomics data through the production of open guidelines for annotation steps. By linking with ELIXIR’s Deposition databases, ISA Framework and other services, the project seeks to boost interconnection with ELIXIR platforms, other ELIXIR communities (Systems Biology, Food and Nutrition, Galaxy, Proteomics, Toxicology, Research Data Alliance Focus Group, etc.), the FAIR Cookbook and BioSchemas.org communities. Project outcomes are expected to promote  the emergence of ambitious and innovative semantic-based solutions for inter-comparison of studies in healthcare, clinical and plant domains.

 ELIXIR Czech Republic, ELIXIR Germany, ELIXIR Italy, ELIXIR Spain, ELIXIR France, ELIXIR Netherlands, ELIXIR Sweden, ELIXIR UK, EMBL-EBI