Organizers & Trainers:

Nils Hoffmann - IBG-5, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH - ELIXIR-DE
Sanjay Srikakulam - IBG-5, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH - ELIXIR-DE
Steffen Neumann - IPB Halle - ELIXIR-DE
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
Peter Horvatovich - University of Groningen - ELIXIR-NL
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 - Translational Genomics, NUTRIM, Maastricht University - ELIXIR-NL
Keynotes:

Keynote I - Egon Willighagen - WikiPathways: semantic integration of multiomics data
Keynote II - Lindsey Anderson & Tim van den Bossche (RDA MOMSI Working Group) - The RDA MOMSI Landscape Dashboard: A Tool for Mapping Multi-Omics Standards
Date:
16-17th February 2026

Location:
House of Connection - Groningen, Netherlands

Contents:
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.

Learning goals:
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.

Prerequisites:
The workshop is targeted towards early career scientists like PhD students and Postdocs, but also experienced scientists, who want to learn more about the implementation study outcome and practical examples for semantic metabolomics.

Keywords:
Lipidomics, Pre-Analytics and study design, Mass Spectrometry, Data Processing and Analysis, Visualization