Open e-Infrastructure to Support Data Sharing, Knowledge Integration and in silico Analysis and Modelling in Predictive Toxicology and Risk Assessment

OpenRiskNet is a 3 year project with the main objective to develop an open e-Infrastructure providing resources and services to a variety of communities requiring risk assessment, including chemicals, cosmetic ingredients, therapeutic agents and nanomaterials. OpenRiskNet is working with a network of partners, organized within an Associated Partners Programme.

The e-Infrastructure

The main concept of the OpenRiskNet infrastructure are virtual research environments (VRE) integrating data, analysis, modelling and simulation services for all areas of risk assessment, which can be deployed to workstations as well as public and in-house cloud infrastructures.

Try it out

Feel free to test out one or multiple of the available services.

The Service Catalogue →

  • To get familiar with the OpenRiskNet concept, consult our case studies.
  • Try our workflows that can be directly applied or used as examples for further adaptations.

Tutorials and feedback

  • Webinars – Watch the recordings of the webinars introducing the infrastructure.
  • Help desk – Report issues, give feedback and browse our knowledge base.

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Resources for end-users

For scientists and members of academia, industry or regulatory agencies who would like to use the infrastructure for their predictive toxicology and risk assessment tasks.

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Resources for developers

For service developers, infrastructure providers or data managers who would like to integrate their databases and software tools into the OpenRiskNet infrastructure.

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OpenRiskNet Services

In progress
Service to run Nextflow pipelines
The command line service provides the necessary environment to run any Nextflow pipeline. The basic command for using the service after logging in is: nextflow run <pipeline_name> For a collection of ...</pipeline_name>

Provided by:
Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG)
Type:
Software, Service, Workflow tool
Applicability domain:
Bioinformatics
For developers
In progress
This service is a Virtuoso SPARQL endpoint that is loaded with RDF of the EPA Adverse Outcome Pathway Database (AOP-DB) from the US EPA, who won the implementation challenge. The ...

Provided by:
Maastricht University
Type:
Database / data source
Applicability domain:
Toxicology, Bioinformatics
Topic:
Risk assessment, Information extraction
For end-users
For developers
In progress
Programmatically retrieve metadata from the European Genome-phenome Archive
All metadata objects generated within the European Genome-phenome Archive can be retrieved programmatically by using this API. Any user downloading omics data their genotoxicity or related studies can easily access ...

Provided by:
Centre for Genomic Regulation
Type:
Application, Service
Applicability domain:
Bioinformatics
Topic:
Information extraction
Biological area:
Omics
For end-users
In progress
Information retrieval system for semantic searches in large text collections
SCAIView is a knowledge discovery software for the life sciences. It facilitates­ the rapid identification of aggregate­d information from large text sources. Knowledge Discovery and Semantic Search Documents are retrieved ...

Provided by:
Fraunhofer Gesellschaft
Type:
Application, Software, Service
Applicability domain:
Bioinformatics
Topic:
Identifier mapping, Information extraction
For end-users
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News & events

Implementation Challenge

The implementation challenge provided financial support to associated partners, which are working on integrating their services into OpenRiskNet.

The winners of the challenge are announced on the dedicated page.

Introduction and demo virtual meetings

A series of introduction and demo virtual meetings were organised by the consortium. The video recordings of these webinars and the presentation slides are available in the OpenRiskNet library. The complete list events are announced on the website.

Meet us

Meet us in person at one of these upcoming conferences and other events. Details on the past events and the resources generated are also available.

A final workshop was organised on 23-24 October 2019 (Amsterdam, The Netherlands). The details on the topics, program and materials are available on the event web page or in the workshop report.