European Registry of Materials: global, unique identifiers for (undisclosed) nanomaterials

van Rijn, Jeaphianne; Afantitis, Antreas; Culha, Mustafa; Dusinska, Maria; Exner, Thomas E; Jeliazkova, Nina; Longhin, Eleanora Marta; Lynch, Iseult; Melagraki, Georgia; Nymark, Penny; Papadiamantis, Anastasios G; Winkler, David; Yilmaz, Hulya; Willighagen, Egon

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European Registry of Materials: global, unique identifiers for (undisclosed) nanomaterials

journal contribution

posted on 2022-09-06, 02:36 authored by Jeaphianne van Rijn, Antreas Afantitis, Mustafa Culha, Maria Dusinska, Thomas E Exner, Nina Jeliazkova, Eleanora Marta Longhin, Iseult Lynch, Georgia Melagraki, Penny Nymark, Anastasios G Papadiamantis, David WinklerDavid Winkler, Hulya Yilmaz, Egon Willighagen

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.

Funding

This research was funded by European Union Horizon 2020 Programme (H2020) under grant agreement n degrees 731032 (NanoCommons), grant agreement n degrees 814425 (RiskGONE), grant agreement n degrees 814572 (NanoSolveIT), grant agreement n degrees 814401 (Gov4Nano), and grant agreement n degrees 862195 (SbD4Nano).

History

Publication Date

2022-08-24

Journal

Journal Of Cheminformatics

Volume

14

Issue

1

Article Number

57

Pagination

10p.

Publisher

Chemistry Central

ISSN

1758-2946

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