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In June 2014, also supported by a BBSRC UK-China partnering award (BB/J020265/1), the Biomed Central Gigascience Team at BGI Hong Kong, and the ISA Team at the University of Oxford e-Research Centre organized a hackathon in Hong Kong, with participation of young scientists and ‘-omics’ data producers from local university and the UK metabolomics standards community (EMBL-EBI, COSMOS and Birmingham Metabolomics Centre).

A workshop was organized by COSMOS and the Data Standards Task Group of the Metabolomics Society during the annual Metabolomics Society conference in June held at Tsuruoka, Japan. Link: http://metabolomics2014.org/index.php/program

On 6h of March 2014 COSMOS members together with the PSI community are holding the first “mzTab for metabolomics” workshop in Tübingen, Germany. Our aim is to drive reporting of metabolomic results further using a standardized, open, easy accessible and human readable tabular format. MzTab (version 1.0) already provides basic support for reporting small molecules that we plan to extend and harmonize with the more advanced reporting scheme for proteins and peptides available in MzTab.

Hackathon Focus:

1. Get ready for first release of nmrML and CV

2. Finalize use cases/example implementations as required by D2.4 in Oct 2013

3. Start R package I/O readers for R based nmr software (batman and rNMR)

4. Initial technical specification of validator set-up, eventually with mock-up example validation (to be ready for Oct 2014)

Participants:

New EMBO Practical Course on Metabolomics Bioinformatics for Life Scientists 2014 is live and registering. Register your interest at:

http://www.ebi.ac.uk/training/course/metabolomics-2014

Workshop On Data Dissemination, Standardization And Exchange

Topic area: metabolomics standards and data dissemination and exchange

May 19, 2013 WW-NMR/COSMOS Workshop

Metabolomics Methods And New Standards And Introduction To WW-NMR And COSMOS

8:30 - 9:00 - COSMOS, Reza Salek, EMBL EBI - Progress in Metabolomics Standardization

9:00 - 9:25 - Ulrich Guenther, Birmingham – Deciphering metabolic changes in cancer using metabolic fluxes

9:25 - 9:50 - Claudio Luchinat, Florence. Intra- and inter-individual variability in metabolomic NMR profiles: challenges and opportunities

The UB: partner of the European project COSMOS to generate and promote new models to exchange metabolomics data

News of Fundació Bosch I Gimpera, 04/2013 (http://www.fbg.ub.edu/index.php/en/home-7/18-noticies/699-13-projecte-cosmos-eng)