Community Engagement Working Group

Chairs: Rick Dunn, University of Liverpool and Claire O’Donovan, European Bioinformatics Institute

Ongoing activities:
The Community and Engagement Working Group (CEWG) was developed in early 2021 as a result of discussions derived from the mQACC 2020 priority-setting meeting. These discussions were focused on engagement with the scientific community and increasing the number and scientific diversity of the mQACC membership. The objectives of the working group are defined below and we will engage with other working groups to fulfil these objectives.

Objective 1: To engage and support journals and data repositories in the reporting of QA and QC practices applied in untargeted metabolomics research.

Objective 2: To engage with other working groups in mQACC to demonstrate coherence across mQACC.

Objective 3: To engage with the metabolomics community to demonstrate why reporting QA and QC practices is important and to define how to report.

Anticipated deliverables:

• Greater engagement with the scientific community using electronic communication, including Twitter with the goal of having 250 followers and 250 followed.

• To develop a document defining the QC samples applied and how data has been analyzed, which will be included with scientific paper submissions to scientific journals and data submissions to metabolomic repositories.