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I have had this on my todo list for way too long: writing about FAIR Implementation Profiles,\nor FIPs for short (see also doi:10.1007/978-3-030-65847-2_13):

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The FIP is a collection of FAIR implementation choices made by a community of practice for each of the FAIR Principles.

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In the early GO FAIR days, people referred to the challenges and choices. FIPs are a formal approach to report the choices.\nThe days of the implementation networks, like the Chemistry Implementation Network (doi:10.1162/dint_a_00035),\nor the AdvancedNano network (doi:10.1016/j.impact.2024.100513). For the first,\nwe absolutely agreed on the InChI, for example, but we never wrote that down as a FIP. But even without FIPs, the\nidea was that communities could learn from each other, could converge. This is where the term\nFAIR Convergence Matrix comes from. (I had forgotten I was actually\npart of the matching Working Group. If only I had dedicated funding for it at the time.)

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Now, I had on my wishlist to write up a list over FIPs around chemistry. This is relevant for the\nFAIR4ChemNL project, but obviously beyond that. And while we did\na lot of FAIRification work in, particularly, the nanosafety cluster projects (eNanoMapper, NanoCommons, NanoSolveIT,\nRiskGONE, and SbD4Nano), a lot of this never was formalized as FIPs. Second, various relevant standards have been\nproposed in chemistry, for chemical compounds and\ntransformation products, among plenty of other things.\nBut during the first ELIXIR Toxicology Community\nworkshop in Utrecht, we had FIPs on the agenda too (see this report).

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FIPs in Chemistry

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But while I had already several browser tabs open for months, I never could find the courage to start making the list. Silly.\nTherefore, this list should be considered a start. I don’t think it is exhaustive. I know there is an index somewhere,\nbut I cannot find back that browser tab. Additions are most welcome: I will update this post (thanks to git and Rogue Scholar).\nIn brackets I list (a selection of) the FAIR enabling resources mentioned in that FIP.

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Is that all? No, I do not think so, but this is all I can easily find (ironically). Well, I guess you now see why I have had a so much trouble starting to write down this post…\nSomeone will surely give me some pointers…

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Ackknowledgments

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I also like to thank all the people involved in these FIPs. I strongly encourage you to look up all the people who\nwrote them down. I also like to thank the INTOXICOM workshop FIP experts Iseult Lynch and Gerhard Burger for\nsharing their knowledge.

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Finally, I recommend checking out the FIP Wizard.

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References

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Coles, S. J., Frey, J. G., Willighagen, E. L., & Chalk, S. J. (2020). Taking FAIR on the ChIN: The Chemistry Implementation                    Network. Data Intelligence, 2(1–2), 131–138. https://doi.org/10.1162/dint_a_00035 CrossRef Scholia
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Gregory, A., & Hodson, S. (2022). WorldFAIR Project (D2.1) “FAIR Implementation Profiles (FIPs) in WorldFAIR: What Have We Learnt?” https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.7378109 CrossRef Scholia
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Groenewold, M., Bleeker, E. A. J., Noorlander, C. W., Sips, A. J. A. M., van der Zee, M., Aitken, R. J., Baker, J. H., Bakker, M. I., Bouman, E. A., Doak, S. H., Drobne, D., Dumit, V. I., Florin, M.-V., Fransman, W., Gonzalez, M. M., Heunisch, E., Isigonis, P., Jeliazkova, N., Jensen, K. A., … Scott-Fordsmand, J. J. (2024). Governance of advanced materials: Shaping a safe and sustainable future. NanoImpact, 35, 100513. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.impact.2024.100513 CrossRef Scholia
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Martens, M., Lynch, I., Exner, T., Stierum, R., Nymark, P., Martinát, D., Acosta, J. M., Wittig, U., Wittwehr, C., Bünger, M., Abbassi-Daloii, T., Burger, G., Killi, U., Houweling, J., Chowdhury, R. R., Danilyuk, T., Sinke, L., Çınar, O., & Willighagen, E. (2024). INTOXICOM Workshop Report: FAIRification of Toxicological Research Output: Leveraging ELIXIR Resources. Center for Open Science. https://doi.org/10.37044/osf.io/un2rw CrossRef Scholia
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Mayahi, B., Palm, E. H., & Schymanski, E. L. (2026). Browsing FAIR Transformation Product Information with FAIR-TPs. ACS Environmental Au, 6(3), 513–522. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenvironau.5c00314 [cito:citesAsPotentialSolution] CrossRef Scholia
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Schultes, E., Magagna, B., Hettne, K. M., Pergl, R., Suchánek, M., & Kuhn, T. (2020). Reusable FAIR Implementation Profiles as Accelerators of FAIR Convergence. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 138–147). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65847-2_13 [cito:citesForInformation] CrossRef Scholia
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Schymanski, E. L., & Bolton, E. E. (2021). FAIR chemical structures in the Journal of Cheminformatics. Journal of Cheminformatics, 13(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13321-021-00520-4 [cito:citesAsPotentialSolution] CrossRef Scholia
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