Project description
The ELIXIR metabolomics community relies on the development and adoption of standards, formats, and data processing solutions, but challenges remain in ensuring high-quality metadata, sufficiently contextualized results, interoperable and reusable datasets, and integrating these metabolomic data with other omics studies or data.
This project is designed to address these issues and aims to link key international standards to ELIXIR resources, as well as create associated guidelines and training materials for the community.
Based on the FAIRification framework, the project activities will:
- to increase the interoperability and reuse of public metabolomics datasets and workflows through improved and expanded open data standards, resources, and new semantic annotations;
- to define, ensure and establish quality control for the reference bases of metabolomics and exposomal studies;
- to facilitate the interpretation of metabolomic data and the integration of meta-analysis with multi-omics and systems biology studies.
News
16 and 17 February 2026 – ELIXIR workshop on semantic metabolomics in Groningen
ELIXIR France, in collaboration with ELIXIR ES, DE, NL, EMBL-EBI, CZ, is organising a two-day workshop on semantic metabolomics in Groningen as part of the ‘Next level of reproducible, comparable, and integrable Metabolomics’ (RCI-M) project. Launched in January 2025 for a duration of 20 months, this ELIXIR project is co-led by Franck Giacomoni (IFB-ELIXIR-FR). The workshop programme will focus in particular on the initial results of the project, which is dedicated to data harmonisation, semantic modelling and metadata standards for metabolomics studies. A second objective will also be to explore the possibilities of enriching annotations and integrating them into metabolomic profiles within the ecosystem of different omics in order to move towards more robust study comparisons and more reliable interpretation of our data.
For more information, see the scientific agenda for this workshop and the slides on Github.