We are establishing an OpenTox Collaboration Pool of individuals and 
organisations who have an interest in collaborating together in the area 
of predictive toxicology (e.g., combining in vitro assays, in silico, 
systems biology, kinetics, human epidemiology, adverse effects data 
etc.). For example, a selection of Pool members could participate in a 
collaborative life science, systems biology or predictive toxicology 
project, develop a funding proposal or response to a call opportunity 
together, or develop an innovation or best practice.

To join the OpenTox Collaboration Pool please complete the short form 
located at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/M7TFM6C

Collaborations will take a virtual organisation approach, i.e., partners 
can bring contributing knowledge, computational or experimental 
capabilities to a partnership for the duration of a project or other 
endeavour.

We will run an initial such virtual organisation (VO) project for the 
first time this year starting later this Spring with the goal:
To collaborate on a Predictive Toxicology project to apply a combination 
of in silico and in vitro approaches to predict in vivo toxicity 
including exposure.

The VO will be supported by a variety of leading modelling and design 
software, informatics infrastructure, and collaborative content 
management and electronic lab notebook systems.

The VOs will also be supported by knowledge-oriented collaboration 
services developed under the FP7 Synergy research project, including a 
reactive complex event driven engine, collaboration moderator, 
collaboration pattern services and partner knowledge base.

The Predictive Toxicology VO will be supported by distributed 
REST-driven web services for data management, model building, validation 
and reporting, developed under the OpenTox Framework 
(http://www.opentox.org/).

We will also consider incorporation of Case Studies into the eCheminfo 
Predictive ADME/Tox workshops to be held in Oxford 2 - 6 August 2010.
See http://echeminfo.com/

best regards
Barry

Barry Hardy PhD
Director, Community of Practice & Research Activities
and OpenTox Project Coordinator (www.opentox.org)
Douglas Connect
Switzerland

Tel: +41 61 851 0170
Email: barry.hardy -(at)- douglasconnect.com