From principles to reality. FAIR implementation in the nanosafety community

Dumit, Verónica I.; Ammar, Ammar; Bakker, Martine; Bañares, Miguel Á.; Bossa, Cecilia; Costa, Anna Luisa; Cowie, Hilary; Drobne, Damjana; Exner, Thomas E.; Farcal, Lucian; Friedrichs, Steffi; Furxhi, Irini; Grafström, Roland C.; Haase, Andrea; Himly, Martin; Jeliazkova, Nina; Lynch, Iseult; Maier, Dieter; Noorlander, C.W.; Shin, Hyun Kil; Soler-Illia, Galo J.A.A.; Suárez-Merino, Blanca; Willighagen, Egon; Nymark, Penny

doi:10.1016/j.nantod.2023.101923

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“…This may involve creating a standardized vocabulary or ontology to facilitate data integration and fairness. Strong efforts are ongoing in the field of nanosafety towards the principles of Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability and Reusability (FAIR) data and their importance for modelling studies and data-driven safe and sustainable application of nano- and advanced materials [100] , [101] , [102] , [103] .…”

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Design rules applied to silver nanoparticles synthesis: A practical example of machine learning application.

Furxhi,

Faccani,

Zanoni

et al. 2024

Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal

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Design rules applied to silver nanoparticles synthesis: A practical example of machine learning application.

Furxhi,

Faccani,

Zanoni

et al. 2024

Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal

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“…Further, digitalization ( Krug, 2022 ) and the implementation of infrastructures for FAIR data ( Dumit et al, 2023 ) hold promise to ease the DaNa teams future work by facilitating data search by e.g., data mining tools (also involving artificial intelligence) and in general allow access to toxicity data more easily.…”

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The DaNa projects: public communication of (nano)material safety data—from conspiracy theories to study quality

Kühnel,

Krug,

Steinbach

et al. 2024

Front. Toxicol.

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In this perspective, the authors give their view on the developments and experiences on communicating on (nano)materials safety. We would like to share our experiences with the scientific community in order to make them useful for future communication activities. We present the long-term work of the science communication projects DaNa, DaNa2.0 and DaNa4.0, running from 2009 to 2023. Starting in the early 2000s with the beginnings of nanotechnology research, communication on the safety of nanomaterials with the public was still very new and faced the projects with many challenges. Today, science communication is indispensable for the dissemination of scientific findings and a fact-based approach like the DaNa “Knowledge Base Materials” creates a trustworthy dialogue with the public. This long-term project series has made a significant contribution to communication on the safety of nanomaterials, perhaps even the largest among publicly funded project series worldwide.

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“…On the bright side, new research projects making use of the developing nanoinformatics infrastructure, rather than having to assign an infrastructure WP or task in each new project, would be able to focus on their vested tools and set aside some budget to contribute to the maintenance of the overall NanoCommons. Consideration is needed in the long-term to understand whether continued contribution from projects, potentially organised in bottom-up networks such as the [45,46]), some sort of non-forprofit foundation with industry contribution, a European Research Infrastructure Consortium, a mixture of all or some of these, or indeed another option that has not yet emerged is the optimal approach to sustain the community infrastructure. In any case, the acceptance, interest and willingness to use and support of the Research community will be the key for any of these options.…”

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Harmonising knowledge for safer materials via the “NanoCommons” Knowledge Base

Maier,

Exner,

Papadiamantis

et al. 2023

Front. Phys.

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In mediaeval Europe, the term “commons” described the way that communities managed land that was held “in common” and provided a clear set of rules for how this “common land” was used and developed by, and for, the community. Similarly, as we move towards an increasingly knowledge-based society where data is the new oil, new approaches to sharing and jointly owning publicly funded research data are needed to maximise its added value. Such common management approaches will extend the data’s useful life and facilitate its reuse for a range of additional purposes, from modelling, to meta-analysis to regulatory risk assessment as examples relevant to nanosafety data. This “commons” approach to nanosafety data and nanoinformatics infrastructure provision, co-development, and maintenance is at the heart of the “NanoCommons” project and underpins its post-funding transition to providing a basis on which other initiatives and projects can build. The present paper summarises part of the NanoCommons infrastructure called the NanoCommons Knowledge Base. It provides interoperability for nanosafety data sources and tools, on both semantic and technical levels. The NanoCommons Knowledge Base connects knowledge and provides both programmatic (via an Application Programming Interface) and a user-friendly graphical interface to enable (and democratise) access to state of the art tools for nanomaterials safety prediction, NMs design for safety and sustainability, and NMs risk assessment, as well. In addition, the standards and interfaces for interoperability, e.g., file templates to contribute data to the NanoCommons, are described, and a snapshot of the range and breadth of nanoinformatics tools and models that have already been integrated are presented Finally, we demonstrate how the NanoCommons Knowledge Base can support users in the FAIRification of their experimental workflows and how the NanoCommons Knowledge Base itself has progressed towards richer compliance with the FAIR principles.

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From principles to reality. FAIR implementation in the nanosafety community

Cited by 12 publications

References 32 publications

Design rules applied to silver nanoparticles synthesis: A practical example of machine learning application.

Design rules applied to silver nanoparticles synthesis: A practical example of machine learning application.

The DaNa projects: public communication of (nano)material safety data—from conspiracy theories to study quality

Harmonising knowledge for safer materials via the “NanoCommons” Knowledge Base

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