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The NCI Nanotechnology Working Group is a working group of the NCIP program and is expected to work closely with the Nanotechnology community, and other NCIP Working Groups. Nanotechnology working and working group calls are open to anyone interested in participating in and contributing to the working group discussions and activities.

Group communications are managed through the Working Group wiki site (here) NCI Community Hub and the Nano-Standards listserv.

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Nano WG meetings will take place on every Thursday at 11 am ET

  • Web conference: Webex link
    Meeting password: Nano Technology1!

Audio:

  • Provide your number when you join the meeting to receive a call back.
    Alternatively, you can call one of the following numbers:
    EB Dial In Number: 1-301-480-8475
  • Join by phone

    1-855-244-8681 Call-in   toll-free number (US/Canada)

    1-650-479-3207 Call-in   toll number (US/Canada)

    Access code: 739

    Follow the instructions that you hear on the phone.
    Cisco Unified MeetingPlace meeting ID: 739

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    titleFall 2103 Nano WG Meeting Schedule
    • September 5: Kick-off meeting, introducing new leadership.
    • September 12: Igor Tetko, German Research Center for Environmental Health: Overview of NATO SfP project Ecotoxicity of metal and metal oxide nanoparticles: experimental study and modeling.
    • September 19: Nanomaterial Registry Team, RTI International: Data Compliance in a Minimal Information about Nanomaterials
    • September 26: Christine Hendren, Duke University: CEINT/NanoRegistry/NanoHub pilot study.
    • October 3: GloboNano (CEINT)
    • October 10: Nanomedicine Alliance
    • October 17: Heather Benko: ANSI Standards Database
    • October 24: Steve Klaine: Exotoxcity testing and predictive models CoR
    • October 31: Richard Marchese Robinson: EU Nano Safety Cluster
    • November 7: Jim Riviere: Predictive Modeling for Human Health CoR
    • November 14: TBD
    • November 21: Christine Hendren, Duke University: US-EU Risk Assessment CoR
    • November 28: Thanksgiving Holiday
    • December 5: Nathan Baker PNNL and Hubert Raucher: Databases and Ontologies CoR
    • December 12: Martie van Tongerer, Exposure through Life Sycle CoR
    • December 19: Stephanie Morris NCI and George Hinkal NCI: NCI NanoAlliance update
    • December 26: Holiday Break
    • January 2: Holiday Break

    Nano WG meeting calendar has moved to the NCIP Hub https://nciphub.org/groups/nanowg/calendar/2014/06


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    • To enable nanomedicine data search, sharing, and analysis through ontology development.
      • One project directly related to this goal is the NanoParticle Ontology: http://nano-ontology.org
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    • To establish a common framework for describing and accessing the physiochemical and biological properties of nanotechnology using common data elements and data sharing formats.
      • One project directly derived from this goal is the ISA-TAB-Nano standard for data submission: http://is.gd/foSKV
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    • To develop a framework for uniform and comprehensive data curation and annotation ensuring that data reliability and reproducibility is evaluated by users most familiar with both the data and the methods used to produce it.
    • To encourage the development of effective data mining standards and tools that are particularly suited for nanomaterial safety assessment, safe-by-design approaches, establishing nanotoxicology structure-activity relationships and nanomaterials characterization databases used for accompanying these objectives.
    • To encourage adoption and use of a shared informatics infrastructure by the nanotechnology and broader communities.

    Short-term aims

    To realize the long-term objectives outlined above, the NCIP Nano WG has established several short-term goals with 6-12 month timeframes.

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    Data generated from nanotechnology research are so diverse and large in volume that it is difficult to share and efficiently use them without informatics tools.  In particular, ontologies that provide a unifying knowledge framework for annotating the data are required to facilitate the semantic integration, knowledge-based searching, unambiguous interpretation, mining and inferencing of the data using informatics methods.  The Nano WG supports the continuing development and application of the NanoParticle Ontology (NPO), which is developed within the framework of the Basic Formal Ontology (BFO), and implemented in the Ontology Web Language (OWL) using well-defined ontology design principles. Nano WG will work closely with data repositories and data curation efforts to capture requirements and incorporate new terminology in NPO.  See http://nano-ontology.org

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    for more information.  Work on this aim will consist of the following tasks:a) Identify

    1. Identify NPO requirements through regular interactions or collaborations with the Nanomaterial Registry, the US-EU Community of Research on Databases and Ontology, UC CEIN, CEINT, the National Nanomanufacturing Network, and other interested parties.

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    1. Grow the NPO through identification and definition of additional concepts in Task A and incorporate those concepts into the NPO.

    Aim 3.  Continued data sharing standard development

    ISA-TAB-Nano was developed to facilitate the import and export of data on nanomaterials and their characterizations among nanotechnology resources. Nano WG will continue to update the specification based on the feedback from the community. Nano WG will also continue to work with the ISA-team

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    to extend the ISA-TAB validator to support ISA-TAB-Nano extensions, and to explore the use of ISA OntoMaton that allows users to search for ontology terms while annotating their experiments. The ISA-TAB-Nano project is under development as an ASTM standard (WK28974 at http://is.gd/foSKV)
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    See the ISA-TAB-Nano Specification for more information.   Work on this Aim will be focused on the following tasks:a) Nano

    1. Nano WG will continue to reach out to the community to increase awareness of the resources developed by the Nano WG, and to encourage community participation in the WG activities.

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    1. In particular, the following activities will be leveraged to increase participation:  invitations to program officers with nanotechnology portfolios, announcements and invitations via the nano.gov portal, society presentations (e.g. Society of Toxicology Nanotoxicology Specialty Section, Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry); and present posters on WG activities at conferences and meetings.

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    1. Additional templates and examples will be developed based on community needs and feedback to improve overall usability and to facilitate adoption of the ISA-Tools.

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    1. The ISA-TAB-Nano standard will continue to be developed/modified based on user feedback and interaction with the ISA-Tools community.

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    1. Time permitting, we will explore the extension of ISA-TAB formats to the sharing of nanotechnology models in addition to the current data sharing activities.

    In the course of these activities, we also plan to survey and identify issues in nanotechnology data curation and search that should be standardized across data resources.

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    See Nanocharacterization Library

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    Standardizing nanomaterial characterization protocols. Several Working Group members have noted that standard characterizations discussed above are only useful if the protocols for these characterizations are themselves standardized and reproducible. Furthermore, evidence from inter-laboratory studies by ASTM and IANH suggests that there is significant variability in results from existing "standard" protocols, suggesting that current mechanisms for protocol communication are ineffective. This nanotechnology problem is currently under investigation by ASTM and ISO groups. The Working Group assists in this effort by:

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    More information can be found athttpat http://nano-ontology.org 

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