MetaboLights: towards a new COSMOS of metabolomics data management

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 MassBa...

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Published in:Metabolomics 2012-10, Vol.8 (5), p.757-760
Main Authors: Steinbeck, Christoph, Conesa, Pablo, Haug, Kenneth, Mahendraker, Tejasvi, Williams, Mark, Maguire, Eamonn, Rocca-Serra, Philippe, Sansone, Susanna-Assunta, Salek, Reza M., Griffin, Julian L.
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Language:English
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Biochemistry
Biomedical and Life Sciences
Biomedicine
Cell Biology
Developmental Biology
Life Sciences
Molecular Medicine
Short Communication
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1573-3882
1573-3890
DOI:10.1007/s11306-012-0462-0