2026 Groningen Semantic Metabolomics ELIXIR Workshop

Welcome to the official repository for the 2026 Groningen Semantic Metabolomics Workshop (ELIXIR RCI-M). All workshop materials, resources, and session notes will be shared here.

Workshop Overview

Join us at the next ELIXIR RCI-M Metabolomics Workshop, which will be held in person on 16 and 17 February 2026 in the beautiful city of Groningen (NL) — a unique opportunity for the metabolomics community to shape reproducible, comparable, integrable and FAIR metabolomics data!

This event presents the first results of the ELIXIR RCI-M implementation study, which addresses issues of data harmonisation, semantic modelling and metadata standards for metabolomics. Together, we propose to explore new frameworks for integrating our metabolomic profiles across all omics, enriching our annotations and contributing to the development of ontologies necessary for our field, thereby improving comparisons between studies and reliable data interpretation.

Participants will take part in hands-on sessions and learn how to leverage tools (EBI MetaboLights), formats (mzQC, mzTab-M) and semantic resources (Ontologies, OLS). Whether you are a researcher, developer, or data manager, you will have the opportunity to contribute to the next generation of interoperable standards and artefacts, and see how to adopt and evolve them in practice.

Register now to participate in this ELIXIR metabolomics community initiative!

Date: 16-17th February 2026
Location: House of Connection - Groningen, Netherlands

More information on the preliminary schebule.

Organisers

Monica Chagoyen - Systems biomedicine lab, Cajal Neuroscience Center, CSIC - ELIXIR-ES
Franck Giacomoni - INRAE - MetaboHUB - ELIXIR-FR
Helge Hecht - RECETOX, Masaryk University - ELIXIR-CZ & EIRENE-CZ
Nils Hoffmann - IBG-5, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH - ELIXIR-DE
Peter Horvatovich - University of Groningen - ELIXIR-NL
Steffen Neumann - IPB Halle - ELIXIR-DE
Sanjay Srikakulam - IBG-5, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH - ELIXIR-DE
Noemi Tejera Hernandez - European Bioinformatics Institute
Thomas Payne - European Bioinformatics Institute
Elliott James Price - RECETOX, Masaryk University - ELIXIR-CZ & EIRENE-CZ
Magalie Weber - INRAE - DIPSO - MetaboHUB - ELIXIR-FR
Egon Willighagen - BiGCaT - Bioinformatics, Maastricht University - ELIXIR-NL
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Agenda

Program Monday, February 16, 2025

09:00-09:10 Opening - Peter Horvatovich
09:10-10:00 Keynote I - Egon Willighagen - WikiPathways: semantic integration of multiomics data
10:00-11:00 WP1: Semantic Metabolomics Data Model for standardization - Thomas Payne
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-13:00 Hands-on tutorial on MetaboLights Study Semantic Curation - Thomas Payne, Noemi Tejera Hernandez, Franck Giacomoni, Magalie Weber
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Hands-on session on metabolomics (bio)sample description - Monica Chagoyen, Steffen Neumann, Franck Giacomoni, Magalie Weber
- Materials: Participants bring the title page of the paper of their study
- Session: Participant add post-it’s with annotation (including ontology annotation accession!) around it.
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-17:00 WP3: Data Interpretation and Multi-Omics Integration - Monica Chagoyen (Online)
19:00 Dinner

Program Tuesday, February 17, 2025

09:00-11:00 Hands-on session on mzQC tutorial - Helge Hecht, Elliott price, Nils Hoffmann
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-13:00 WP2: Quality Control (QC) and Enhanced Metadata – updates on mzTab-M, mzQC and other standards - Nils Hoffmann
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-14:45 Keynote II - Lindsey Anderson & Tim van den Bossche (RDA MOMSI Working Group) - The RDA MOMSI Landscape Dashboard: A Tool for Mapping Multi-Omics Standards
14:45-15:30 Panel discussion
15:30-16:00 Wrap up

Resources

📣 Presentations

Opening Session Slides will be published as possible
Keynote: Egon Willighagen Slides will be published as possible
Keynote: Tim van den Bossche (VIB, Ugent), Lindsey Anderson (PNLL) Slides will be published as possible
Additional talks and slides will be published as they are available.

How to Use This Repository

Browse the folders above for session materials and documentation.
Download any workshop resource directly from GitHub.
Use the Issues tab for questions or to provide feedback on the event or materials.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome!
You may submit improvements, corrections to documentation, or share additional resources by opening a pull request or issue.

Contact

For inquiries or support, open an Issue or reach out to the workshop organisers:

Main contact: elixir_rci-m_members@groupes.renater.fr
Community website: ELIXIR Metabolomics Community
Project website: Next level of reproducible, comparable and integrable Metabolomics Project

Thank you for participating and contributing to the advancement of semantic-driven metabolomics!