Hands-on Workshop, Athens

Event date: 
Thu, 29.09.2016 to Fri, 30.09.2016
Event place: 

National Technical University of Athens,
Athens, Greece

The event is organized by the National Technical University of Athens and is sponsored by the eNanoMapper project.

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Format

eNanoMapper partners will describe specific cases and practical examples in which the group will work through modelling, analysis and assessment exercises, and discuss the results.

 
Background

Computational modelling and software tools are increasingly important to support experimental testing and risk assessment in modern nanotoxicology. EU has given particular emphasis in funding research relative to the development of computational methods for toxicological risk assessment of engineered nanoparticles.

eNanoMapper (A Database and Ontology Framework for Nanomaterials Design and Safety Assessment) is an FP7 funded project which started in February 2014, with the following main technical objectives:

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Modular infrastructure for data storage, sharing and searching, based on open standards and semantic web technologies, minimum information standards and established security solutions;

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Development of ontologies for the categorisation and characterisation of Engineered Nanomaterials (ENMs) in collaboration with other projects;

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Development of computational infrastructure for eNM toxicity modelling and prediction which may process all data made available through eNanoMapper (e.g. using algorithms available from the OpenTox FP7 project or statistical/data mining software).

As the eNanoMapper project is reaching its end, the tools and solutions it provides are maturing and are getting ready to be tested and used by researchers and practitioners in the nanosafety community  

Objectives

The objective of this workshop is to bring together a group of people that are potential users of the eNanoMapper computational framework, make them familiar and train them on eNanoMapper tools and services and give them the opportunity to provide feedback and comments that will be taken into account for their final releases. The users can either bring their own data or work based on existing examples and tutorials. In the end of this workshop, the participants will know how to:

• Import data in the eNanoMapper data repository
• Annotate data with ontological terms

• Perform queries on data and visualise results

• Analyse raw experimental data such as omics data and images
• Develop, optimise and validate predictive models
• Use models for predictions
• Optimally design experiments

• Generate reports