The document announces an EU Project Informatics Alignment Workshop on April 24-25 at Imperial College London. It will feature a presentation by Natalja Kurbatova from EMBL-EBI on eTOX, a 7-year project funded by IMI/EFPIA to develop expert systems for predicting toxicities through integrating bioinformatics and chemoinformatics. eTOX aims to build databases, develop ontologies and text mining, characterize compounds, validate QSAR models, and more. The workshop will discuss eTOX's collected data and specific needs for data integration projects.

1. EU Project Informatics Alignment Workshop
Imperial College London
April 24th-25th
Natalja Kurbatova (EMBL-EBI)
eTOX

2. What is eTOX
• eTOX - Integrating bioinformatics and chemoinformatics for the development
of Expert systems allowing the in silico prediction of toxicities (http://www.e-
tox.net/project_summary.html).
• eTOX objectives:
– Database building and management,
– Ontologies and text mining techniques,
– Chemistry and structure-based approaches for the molecular description of the
studied compounds,
– Development and validation of QSARs (Quantitative structure–activity
relationship models), integrative models, expert systems and meta-tools.
– etc.
• Funded by: IMI / EFPI in kind/ Other
• Time frames: 7 years (01/01/2010 --- 31/12/2016)
• Members:
– Pharma partners (13)
– Academic groups (12)
– Commercial Suppliers (5)

3. Data collected by eTOX

4. Specific needs for MyProject

5. • Data marshalling layer
• Version updates and compatibility
• Multi-omics data support
Specific needs for tranSMART instances at EMBL-EBI