TY - JOUR
T1 - European Registry of Materials
T2 - global, unique identifiers for (undisclosed) nanomaterials
AU - van Rijn, Jeaphianne
AU - Afantitis, Antreas
AU - Culha, Mustafa
AU - Dusinska, Maria
AU - Exner, Thomas E
AU - Jeliazkova, Nina
AU - Longhin, Eleonora Marta
AU - Lynch, Iseult
AU - Melagraki, Georgia
AU - Nymark, Penny
AU - Papadiamantis, Anastasios G
AU - Winkler, David A
AU - Yilmaz, Hulya
AU - Willighagen, Egon
N1 - © 2022. The Author(s).
PY - 2022/8/24
Y1 - 2022/8/24
N2 - Management of nanomaterials and nanosafety data needs to operate under the FAIR (findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability) principles and this requires a unique, global identifier for each nanomaterial. Existing identifiers may not always be applicable or sufficient to definitively identify the specific nanomaterial used in a particular study, resulting in the use of textual descriptions in research project communications and reporting. To ensure that internal project documentation can later be linked to publicly released data and knowledge for the specific nanomaterials, or even to specific batches and variants of nanomaterials utilised in that project, a new identifier is proposed: the European Registry of Materials Identifier. We here describe the background to this new identifier, including FAIR interoperability as defined by FAIRSharing, identifiers.org, Bioregistry, and the CHEMINF ontology, and show how it complements other identifiers such as CAS numbers and the ongoing efforts to extend the InChI identifier to cover nanomaterials. We provide examples of its use in various H2020-funded nanosafety projects.
AB - Management of nanomaterials and nanosafety data needs to operate under the FAIR (findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability) principles and this requires a unique, global identifier for each nanomaterial. Existing identifiers may not always be applicable or sufficient to definitively identify the specific nanomaterial used in a particular study, resulting in the use of textual descriptions in research project communications and reporting. To ensure that internal project documentation can later be linked to publicly released data and knowledge for the specific nanomaterials, or even to specific batches and variants of nanomaterials utilised in that project, a new identifier is proposed: the European Registry of Materials Identifier. We here describe the background to this new identifier, including FAIR interoperability as defined by FAIRSharing, identifiers.org, Bioregistry, and the CHEMINF ontology, and show how it complements other identifiers such as CAS numbers and the ongoing efforts to extend the InChI identifier to cover nanomaterials. We provide examples of its use in various H2020-funded nanosafety projects.
U2 - 10.1186/s13321-022-00614-7
DO - 10.1186/s13321-022-00614-7
M3 - Article
C2 - 36002868
SN - 1758-2946
VL - 14
JO - Journal of Cheminformatics
JF - Journal of Cheminformatics
IS - 1
M1 - 57
ER -