Food & Nutrition
About the Community
The ELIXIR Food & Nutrition Community tackles the challenge of understanding how food properties influence human health. They achieve this by promoting standardized food and nutrition data based on FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable).
Key activities of the community include:
- Develop data standards and tools to support food and nutrition research.
- Facilitate advanced research based on the most updated information accessible in international and national databases.
- Knowledge dissemination through specific training to consolidate competences and knowledge.
Contribution of ELIXIR Italy
ELIXIR-IT provides crucial support to the IDP community through several initiatives:
- Cutting-Edge Databases: ELIXIR-IT develops and maintains key databases like DisProt, MobiDBi, and PED.
- Benchmarking IDP Predictions: the Italian node organizes the Critical Assessment of protein Intrinsic Disorder (CAID) challenge for a blind evaluation of IDP prediction methods.
- Promoting Knowledge Sharing: ELIXIR-IT offers training courses and guidelines to facilitate participation and dissemination of knowledge on IDPs.
- Integrated Resources: ELIXIR-IT integrates IDP resources like DisProt and MobiDBi with ELIXIR-CDR platforms like InterPro and UniProtKB facilitating seamless access for researchers.
- Standardizing IDP Terminology: In collaboration with other Consortia, the IDP Community helps maintain IDP-related Gene Ontology and Evidence and Conclusion Ontology terms.
- Minimum Information Standard: ELIXIR-IT, along with HUPO-PSI, contributed the Minimum Information About Disorder Experiments (MIADE), which provides guidelines for unambiguously reporting IDP experiments.
Overall, ELIXIR-IT's contributions play a vital role in advancing IDP research by providing essential tools, resources, and promoting knowledge sharing within the scientific community.