Authors: Martin Himly Contributors: Marvin Martens, Haralambos Sarimveis, Philip Doganis, Iseult Lynch Building on the hugely successful set of webinars and online training events that NanoCommons ran in 2020 as part of our adaption to the Covid-19 travel restrictions, a similar series of virtual training events and hackathons is planned for 2021. While the exact…
Authors: Egon Willighagen and Iseult Lynch Text mining for (nano)materials is far from trivial. The proprietary SpringerNature Nano database extracts information for many materials, but it is not easy to find materials of a certain size in this database. Use of identifiers in text, for example as compact identifiers1, supports text mining. In a small…
Authors: Thomas Exner, Dieter Maier, Tassos Papadiamantis and Iseult Lynch In order to support as many projects as possible with their data management needs and become a one-stop shop to search and retrieve all available nanosafety related data, NanoCommons offers two ways to integrate project data into the NanoCommons knowledge base and supports them via…
Authors: Egon Willighagen The difference between a dataset and a database is not unlike food ingredients and a dinner. Databases are like the ready-to-eat dinners, sometimes in a fancy restaurant (read: the database has an application programming interface), sometimes at home (nice website). Datasets are what you need to cook the dinner, the ingredients. And…
Authors: Laurent Winckers and Egon Willighagen Version 7 of the eNanoMapper Ontology1 (ENM) (currently maintained and developed via NanoCommons funding) was released on the 4th February 2021. This new version houses annotation properties from various related ontologies, including the BioAssay Ontology (BAO), the Chemical Information Ontology2 (CHEMINF), the NanoParticle Ontology (NPO), the Relation Ontology (RO)…