Egon Willighagen
Assistant professor, Maastricht University.
2025-04-08
egon.willighagen@maastrichtuniversity.nl
egonw - egon-willighagen - egonw - @egonw.ap.brid.gy
Education
2002-2008
Ph.D., Chemistry, Representation of Molecules and Molecular Systems in Data Analysis and Modeling, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. isbn:9789090228068
1993-2001
M.Sc., Chemistry, University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Experience
2024-present
Assistant Professor, Department of Translational Genomics, Institute NUTRIM for Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
2014-2024
Assistant Professor, Department of Bioinformatics, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
2012-2014
Postdoc, Department of Bioinformatics, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
2011
Postdoc, Institute for Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
2010
Postdoc, Unilever Center for Molecular Molecular Informatics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
2008-2010
Postdoc, Department of Pharmaceutical Biosciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
2007-2008
Postdoc, Plant Research International, Wageningen University
& Research Centre, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
2006-2007
Postdoc, Cologne University Bioinformatics Centre, Cologne
University, Cologne, Germany.
Publications
Google Scholar u8SjMZ0AAAAJ. H-index: 52.
Web of Science H-index: 41. Citations: 7,505 (without self: 7,149). Highly Cited Papers: 8. Citations per article: 51.04
NIH iCite: Mean RCR: 3.26. Articles in NIH Top 1%: 5, Top 10%: 16
Journal articles
Scientific publications in international journals with a referee system.
2025
Kienhuis, A., Krul, C., van Engelen, J., Evelo, C., Hessel, E., Hoekman, J., Kramer, N., Krop, E., Masereeuw, R., Moors, E., Negro, S., Piersma, A., Pieters, R., Teunis, M., Willighagen, E., Legler, J. (2025). The Virtual Human Platform for Safety Assessment (VHP4Safety) project: Next generation chemical safety assessment based on human data. (2024). ALTEX. doi:10.14573/altex.2407211
2024
Agrawal, A., Balcı, H., Hanspers, K., Coort, S. L., Martens, M., Slenter, D. N., Ehrhart, F., Digles, D., Waagmeester, A., Wassink, I., Abbassi-Daloii, T., Lopes, E. N., Iyer, A., Acosta, J. M., Willighagen, L. G., Nishida, K., Riutta, A., Basaric, H., Evelo, C. T., … Pico, A. R. (2023). WikiPathways 2024: next generation pathway database. Nucleic Acids Research, 52(D1), D679–D689. doi:10.1093/nar/gkad960
Serrano, B. A., Gheorghe, L. C., Exner, T. E., Resch, S., Wolf, C., Himly, M., Falk, A., Bossa, N., Vazquez, S., Papadiamantis, A. G., Afantitis, A., Melagraki, G., Maier, D., Saramveis, H., Willighagen, E., Lobaskin, V., Oldfield, J. D., & Lynch, I. (2024). The role of FAIR nanosafety data and nanoinformatics in achieving the UN sustainable development goals: the NanoCommons experience. RSC Sustainability, 2(5), 1378–1399. doi:10.1039/d3su00148b
Jeliazkova, N., Longhin, E., El Yamani, N., Rundén-Pran, E., Moschini, E., Serchi, T., Vrček, I. V., Burgum, M. J., Doak, S. H., Cimpan, M. R., Rios-Mondragon, I., Cimpan, E., Battistelli, C. L., Bossa, C., Tsekovska, R., Drobne, D., Novak, S., Repar, N., Ammar, A., … Dusinska, M. (2024). A template wizard for the cocreation of machine-readable data-reporting to harmonize the evaluation of (nano)materials. Nature Protocols, 19(9), 2642–2684. doi:10.1038/s41596-024-00993-1
Niarakis, A., Ostaszewski, M., Mazein, A., Kuperstein, I., Kutmon, M., Gillespie, M. E., Funahashi, A., Acencio, M. L., Hemedan, A., Aichem, M., Klein, K., Czauderna, T., Burtscher, F., Yamada, T. G., Hiki, Y., Hiroi, N. F., Hu, F., Pham, N., Ehrhart, F., … Schneider, R. (2024). Drug-target identification in COVID-19 disease mechanisms using computational systems biology approaches. Frontiers in Immunology, 14. doi:10.3389/fimmu.2023.1282859
Ammar, A., Evelo, C., & Willighagen, E. (2024). FAIR assessment of nanosafety data reusability with community standards. Scientific Data, 11(1). doi:10.1038/s41597-024-03324-x
Slenter, D., Kutmon, M., Evelo, C. T., & Willighagen, E. L. (2024). Discovering life’s directed metabolic (sub)paths to interpret human biochemical markers using the DSMN tool. Digital Discovery, 3(1), 81–98. doi:10.1039/d3dd00069a
Van Rijn, J. P. M., Martens, M., Ammar, A., Cimpan, M. R., Fessard, V., Hoet, P., Jeliazkova, N., Murugadoss, S., Vinković Vrček, I., & Willighagen, E. L. (2024). From papers to RDF-based integration of physicochemical data and adverse outcome pathways for nanomaterials. Journal of Cheminformatics, 16(1). doi:10.1186/s13321-024-00833-0
Bernabé, C. H., Thielemans, L., Kaliyaperumal, R., Carta, C., Zhang, S., van Gelder, C. W. G., Benis, N., da Silva Santos, L. O. B., Cornet, R., dos Santos Vieira, B., Lalout, N., Henriques, I., Ballesteros, A. C., Burger, K., Kersloot, M. G., Ehrhart, F., van Enckevort, E., Evelo, C. T., Gray, A. J. G., …, Willighagen E. L., Jansen, M., Mons, B., Roos, M., Jacobsen, A. (2024). Building Expertise on FAIR Through Evolving Bring Your Own Data (BYOD) Workshops: Describing the Data, Software, and Management-focused Approaches and Their Evolution. Data Intelligence, 6(2), 429–456. doi:10.1162/dint_a_00236
Murugadoss, S., Vinković Vrček, I., Schaffert, A., Paparella, M., Pem, B., Sosnowska, A., Stępnik, M., Martens, M., Willighagen, E. L., Puzyn, T., Roxana Cimpan, M., Lemaire, F., Mertens, B., Dusinska, M., Fessard, V., Hoet, P.H.. Linking nanomaterial-induced mitochondrial dysfunction to existing adverse outcome pathways for chemicals. (2024). ALTEX, 41(1). doi:10.14573/altex.2305011
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. doi:10.1016/j.impact.2024.100513
2023
Martens, M., Stierum, R., Schymanski, E. L., Evelo, C. T., Aalizadeh, R., Aladjov, H., Arturi, K., Audouze, K., Babica, P., Berka, K., Bessems, J., Blaha, L., Bolton, E. E., Cases, M., Damalas, D. Ε., Dave, K., Dilger, M., Exner, T., Geerke, D. P., … Willighagen, E. L. (2023). ELIXIR and Toxicology: a community in development. F1000Research, 10, 1129. doi:10.12688/f1000research.74502.2
Mullowney, M. W., Duncan, K. R., Elsayed, S. S., Garg, N., van der Hooft, J. J. J., Martin, N. I., Meijer, D., Terlouw, B. R., Biermann, F., Blin, K., Durairaj, J., Gorostiola González, M., Helfrich, E. J. N., Huber, F., Leopold-Messer, S., Rajan, K., de Rond, T., van Santen, J. A., Sorokina, M., … Medema, M. H. (2023). Artificial intelligence for natural product drug discovery. Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 22(11), 895–916. doi:10.1038/s41573-023-00774-7
Furxhi, I., Willighagen, E., Evelo, C., Costa, A., Gardini, D., & Ammar, A. (2023). A data reusability assessment in the nanosafety domain based on the NSDRA framework followed by an exploratory quantitative structure activity relationships (QSAR) modeling targeting cellular viability. NanoImpact, 31, 100475. doi:10.1016/j.impact.2023.100475
Ammar, A., Cavill, R., Evelo, C., & Willighagen, E. (2023). PSnpBind-ML: predicting the effect of binding site mutations on protein-ligand binding affinity. Journal of Cheminformatics, 15(1). doi:10.1186/s13321-023-00701-3
Willighagen, E. (2023). Two years of explicit CiTO annotations. Journal of Cheminformatics, 15(1). doi:10.1186/s13321-023-00683-2
Rocca-Serra, P., Gu, W., Ioannidis, V., Abbassi-Daloii, T., Capella-Gutierrez, S., Chandramouliswaran, I., Splendiani, A., Burdett, T., Giessmann, R. T., Henderson, D., Batista, D., Emam, I., Gadiya, Y., Giovanni, L., Willighagen, E., Evelo, C., Gray, A. J. G., Gribbon, P., Juty, N., … Sansone, S.-A. (2023). The FAIR Cookbook - the essential resource for and by FAIR doers. Scientific Data, 10(1). doi:10.1038/s41597-023-02166-3
Slenter, D. N., Hemel, I. M. G. M., Evelo, C. T., Bierau, J., Willighagen, E. L., & Steinbusch, L. K. M. (2023). Extending inherited metabolic disorder diagnostics with biomarker interaction visualizations. Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases, 18(1). doi:10.1186/s13023-023-02683-9
2022
Ammar, A., Cavill, R., Evelo, C., & Willighagen, E. (2022). PSnpBind: a database of mutated binding site protein–ligand complexes constructed using a multithreaded virtual screening workflow. Journal of Cheminformatics, 14(1). doi:10.1186/s13321-021-00573-5
Hoyt, C. T., Balk, M., Callahan, T. J., Domingo-Fernández, D., Haendel, M. A., Hegde, H. B., Himmelstein, D. S., Karis, K., Kunze, J., Lubiana, T., Matentzoglu, N., McMurry, J., Moxon, S., Mungall, C. J., Rutz, A., Unni, D. R., Willighagen, E., Winston, D., & Gyori, B. M. (2022). Unifying the identification of biomedical entities with the Bioregistry. Scientific Data, 9(1). doi:10.1038/s41597-022-01807-3
Mohammed Taha, H., Aalizadeh, R., Alygizakis, N., Antignac, J.-P., Arp, H. P. H., Bade, R., Baker, N., Belova, L., Bijlsma, L., Bolton, E. E., Brack, W., Celma, A., Chen, W.-L., Cheng, T., Chirsir, P., Čirka, Ľ., D’Agostino, L. A., Djoumbou Feunang, Y., Dulio, V., … Schymanski, E. L. (2022). The NORMAN Suspect List Exchange (NORMAN-SLE): facilitating European and worldwide collaboration on suspect screening in high resolution mass spectrometry. Environmental Sciences Europe, 34(1). doi:10.1186/s12302-022-00680-6
Sinclair, G., Thillainadarajah, I., Meyer, B., Samano, V., Sivasupramaniam, S., Adams, L., Willighagen, E. L., Richard, A. M., Walker, M., & Williams, A. J. (2022). Wikipedia on the CompTox Chemicals Dashboard: Connecting Resources to Enrich Public Chemical Data. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 62(20), 4888–4905. doi:10.1021/acs.jcim.2c00886
Jacobs, A., Williams, D., Hickey, K., Patrick, N., Williams, A. J., Chalk, S., McEwen, L., Willighagen, E., Walker, M., Bolton, E., Sinclair, G., & Sanford, A. (2022). CAS Common Chemistry in 2021: Expanding Access to Trusted Chemical Information for the Scientific Community. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 62(11), 2737–2743. doi:10.1021/acs.jcim.2c00268
Krans, N. A., Ammar, A., Nymark, P., Willighagen, E. L., Bakker, M. I., & Quik, J. T. K. (2022). FAIR assessment tools: evaluating use and performance. NanoImpact, 27, 100402. doi:10.1016/j.impact.2022.100402
Miller, R. A., Kutmon, M., Bohler, A., Waagmeester, A., Evelo, C. T., & Willighagen, E. L. (2022). Understanding signaling and metabolic paths using semantified and harmonized information about biological interactions. PLOS ONE, 17(4), e0263057. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0263057
Rutz, A., Sorokina, M., Galgonek, J., Mietchen, D., Willighagen, E., Gaudry, A., Graham, J. G., Stephan, R., Page, R., Vondrášek, J., Steinbeck, C., Pauli, G. F., Wolfender, J.-L., Bisson, J., & Allard, P.-M. (2022). The LOTUS initiative for open knowledge management in natural products research. eLife, 11. doi:10.7554/elife.70780
Van Rijn, J., Afantitis, A., Culha, M., Dusinska, M., Exner, T. E., Jeliazkova, N., Longhin, E. M., Lynch, I., Melagraki, G., Nymark, P., Papadiamantis, A. G., Winkler, D. A., Yilmaz, H., & Willighagen, E. (2022). European Registry of Materials: global, unique identifiers for (undisclosed) nanomaterials. Journal of Cheminformatics, 14(1). doi:10.1186/s13321-022-00614-7
Martens, M., Evelo, C. T., & Willighagen, E. L. (2022). Providing Adverse Outcome Pathways from the AOP-Wiki in a Semantic Web Format to Increase Usability and Accessibility of the Content. Applied In Vitro Toxicology, 8(1), 2–13. doi:10.1089/aivt.2021.0010
Mortensen, H. M., Martens, M., Senn, J., Levey, T., Evelo, C. T., Willighagen, E. L., & Exner, T. (2022). The AOP-DB RDF: Applying FAIR Principles to the Semantic Integration of AOP Data Using the Research Description Framework. Frontiers in Toxicology, 4. doi:10.3389/ftox.2022.803983
Ni, Z., Wölk, M., Jukes, G., Mendivelso Espinosa, K., Ahrends, R., Aimo, L., Alvarez-Jarreta, J., Andrews, S., Andrews, R., Bridge, A., Clair, G. C., Conroy, M. J., Fahy, E., Gaud, C., Goracci, L., Hartler, J., Hoffmann, N., Kopczyinki, D., Korf, A., … Fedorova, M. (2022). Guiding the choice of informatics software and tools for lipidomics research applications. Nature Methods, 20(2), 193–204. doi:10.1038/s41592-022-01710-0
Sochorová, M., Vávrová, K., Fedorova, M., Ni, Z., Slenter, D., Kutmon, M., Willighagen, E. L., Letsiou, S., Töröcsik, D., Marchetti-Deschmann, M., Zoratto, S., Kremslehner, C., & Gruber, F. (2022). Research Techniques Made Simple: Lipidomic Analysis in Skin Research. Journal of Investigative Dermatology, 142(1), 4-11.e1. doi:10.1016/j.jid.2021.09.017
2021
Ostaszewski, M., Niarakis, A., Mazein, A., Kuperstein, I., Phair, R., Orta‐Resendiz, A., Singh, V., Aghamiri, S. S., Acencio, M. L., Glaab, E., Ruepp, A., Fobo, G., Montrone, C., Brauner, B., Frishman, G., Monraz Gómez, L. C., Somers, J., Hoch, M., Kumar Gupta, S., … Schneider, R. (2021). COVID‐19 Disease Map, a computational knowledge repository of virus‐host interaction mechanisms. Molecular Systems Biology, 17(12). doi:10.15252/msb.202110851
Meldal, B. H. M., Perfetto, L., Combe, C., Lubiana, T., Ferreira Cavalcante, J. V., Bye-A-Jee, H., Waagmeester, A., del-Toro, N., Shrivastava, A., Barrera, E., Wong, E., Mlecnik, B., Bindea, G., Panneerselvam, K., Willighagen, E., Rappsilber, J., Porras, P., Hermjakob, H., & Orchard, S. (2021). Complex Portal 2022: new curation frontiers. Nucleic Acids Research, 50(D1), D578–D586. doi:10.1093/nar/gkab991
Hanspers, K., Kutmon, M., Coort, S. L., Digles, D., Dupuis, L. J., Ehrhart, F., Hu, F., Lopes, E. N., Martens, M., Pham, N., Shin, W., Slenter, D. N., Waagmeester, A., Willighagen, E. L., Winckers, L. A., Evelo, C. T., & Pico, A. R. (2021). Ten simple rules for creating reusable pathway models for computational analysis and visualization. PLOS Computational Biology, 17(8), e1009226. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009226
Kyle, J. E., Aimo, L., Bridge, A. J., Clair, G., Fedorova, M., Helms, J. B., Molenaar, M. R., Ni, Z., Orešič, M., Slenter, D., Willighagen, E., & Webb-Robertson, B.-J. M. (2021). Interpreting the lipidome: bioinformatic approaches to embrace the complexity. Metabolomics, 17(6). doi:10.1007/s11306-021-01802-6
Willighagen, E. (2021). Bacting: a next generation, command line version of Bioclipse. Journal of Open Source Software, 6(62), 2558. doi:10.21105/joss.02558
Winckers, L. A., Evelo, C. T., Willighagen, E. L., & Kutmon, M. (2021). Investigating the Molecular Processes behind the Cell-Specific Toxicity Response to Titanium Dioxide Nanobelts. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 22(17), 9432. doi:10.3390/ijms22179432
Ehrhart, F., Jacobsen, A., Rigau, M., Bosio, M., Kaliyaperumal, R., Laros, J. F. J., Willighagen, E. L., Valencia, A., Roos, M., Capella-Gutierrez, S., Curfs, L. M. G., & Evelo, C. T. (2021). A catalogue of 863 Rett-syndrome-causing MECP2 mutations and lessons learned from data integration. Scientific Data, 8(1). doi:10.1038/s41597-020-00794-7
Ehrhart, F., Willighagen, E. L., Kutmon, M., van Hoften, M., Curfs, L. M. G., & Evelo, C. T. (2021). A resource to explore the discovery of rare diseases and their causative genes. Scientific Data, 8(1). doi:10.1038/s41597-021-00905-y
Murugadoss, S. (2021). A strategy towards the generation of testable adverse outcome pathways for nanomaterials. ALTEX. doi:10.14573/altex.2102191
Waagmeester, A., Willighagen, E. L., Su, A. I., Kutmon, M., Gayo, J. E. L., Fernández-Álvarez, D., Groom, Q., Schaap, P. J., Verhagen, L. M., & Koehorst, J. J. (2021). A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata: aligning resources on human coronaviruses. BMC Biology, 19(1). doi:10.1186/s12915-020-00940-y
2020
Ammar, A., Bonaretti, S., Winckers, L., Quik, J., Bakker, M., Maier, D., Lynch, I., van Rijn, J., & Willighagen, E. (2020). A Semi-Automated Workflow for FAIR Maturity Indicators in the Life Sciences. Nanomaterials, 10(10), 2068. doi:10.3390/nano10102068
Lynch, I., Afantitis, A., Exner, T., Himly, M., Lobaskin, V., Doganis, P., Maier, D., Sanabria, N., Papadiamantis, A. G., Rybinska-Fryca, A., Gromelski, M., Puzyn, T., Willighagen, E., Johnston, B. D., Gulumian, M., Matzke, M., Green Etxabe, A., Bossa, N., Serra, A., … Melagraki, G. (2020). Can an InChI for Nano Address the Need for a Simplified Representation of Complex Nanomaterials across Experimental and Nanoinformatics Studies? Nanomaterials, 10(12), 2493. doi:10.3390/nano10122493
Martens, M., Ammar, A., Riutta, A., Waagmeester, A., Slenter, D. N., Hanspers, K., A. Miller, R., Digles, D., Lopes, E. N., Ehrhart, F., Dupuis, L. J., Winckers, L. A., Coort, S. L., Willighagen, E. L., Evelo, C. T., Pico, A. R., & Kutmon, M. (2020). WikiPathways: connecting communities. Nucleic Acids Research, 49(D1), D613–D621. doi:10.1093/nar/gkaa1024
Afantitis, A., Melagraki, G., Isigonis, P., Tsoumanis, A., Varsou, D. D., Valsami-Jones, E., Papadiamantis, A., Ellis, L.-J. A., Sarimveis, H., Doganis, P., Karatzas, P., Tsiros, P., Liampa, I., Lobaskin, V., Greco, D., Serra, A., Kinaret, P. A. S., Saarimäki, L. A., Grafström, R., … Lynch, I. (2020). NanoSolveIT Project: Driving nanoinformatics research to develop innovative and integrated tools for in silico nanosafety assessment. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 18, 583–602. doi:10.1016/j.csbj.2020.02.023
Jacobsen, A., de Miranda Azevedo, R., Juty, N., Batista, D., Coles, S., Cornet, R., Courtot, M., Crosas, M., Dumontier, M., Evelo, C. T., Goble, C., Guizzardi, G., Hansen, K. K., Hasnain, A., Hettne, K., Heringa, J., Hooft, R. W. W., Imming, M., Jeffery, K. G., … Schultes, E. (2020). FAIR Principles: Interpretations and Implementation Considerations. Data Intelligence, 2(1–2), 10–29. doi:10.1162/dint_r_00024
Ostaszewski, M., Mazein, A., Gillespie, M. E., Kuperstein, I., Niarakis, A., Hermjakob, H., Pico, A. R., Willighagen, E. L., Evelo, C. T., Hasenauer, J., Schreiber, F., Dräger, A., Demir, E., Wolkenhauer, O., Furlong, L. I., Barillot, E., Dopazo, J., Orta-Resendiz, A., Messina, F., … Schneider, R. (2020). COVID-19 Disease Map, building a computational repository of SARS-CoV-2 virus-host interaction mechanisms. Scientific Data, 7(1). doi:10.1038/s41597-020-0477-8
Waagmeester, A., Stupp, G., Burgstaller-Muehlbacher, S., Good, B. M., Griffith, M., Griffith, O. L., Hanspers, K., Hermjakob, H., Hudson, T. S., Hybiske, K., Keating, S. M., Manske, M., Mayers, M., Mietchen, D., Mitraka, E., Pico, A. R., Putman, T., Riutta, A., Queralt-Rosinach, N., … Su, A. I. (2020). Wikidata as a knowledge graph for the life sciences. eLife, 9. doi:10.7554/elife.52614
2019
Stanstrup, J., Broeckling, C., Helmus, R., Hoffmann, N., Mathé, E., Naake, T., Nicolotti, L., Peters, K., Rainer, J., Salek, R., Schulze, T., Schymanski, E., Stravs, M., Thévenot, E., Treutler, H., Weber, R., Willighagen, E., Witting, M., & Neumann, S. (2019). The metaRbolomics Toolbox in Bioconductor and beyond. Metabolites, 9(10), 200. doi:10.3390/metabo9100200
Kutmon, M., Ehrhart, F., Willighagen, E. L., Evelo, C. T., & Coort, S. L. (2019). CyTargetLinker app update: A flexible solution for network extension in Cytoscape. F1000Research, 7, 743. doi:10.12688/f1000research.14613.2
Menden, M. P., Wang, D., Mason, M. J., Szalai, B., Bulusu, K. C., Guan, Y., Yu, T., Kang, J., Jeon, M., Wolfinger, R., Nguyen, T., Zaslavskiy, M., Abante, J., Abecassis, B. S., Aben, N., Aghamirzaie, D., Aittokallio, T., Akhtari, F. S., Al-lazikani, B., … Saez-Rodriguez, J. (2019). Community assessment to advance computational prediction of cancer drug combinations in a pharmacogenomic screen. Nature Communications, 10(1). doi:10.1038/s41467-019-09799-2
2018
Miller, R. A., Ehrhart, F., Eijssen, L. M. T., Slenter, D. N., Curfs, L. M. G., Evelo, C. T., Willighagen, E. L., & Kutmon, M. (2019). Beyond Pathway Analysis: Identification of Active Subnetworks in Rett Syndrome. Frontiers in Genetics, 10. doi:10.3389/fgene.2019.00059
Townend, G. S., Ehrhart, F., van Kranen, H. J., Wilkinson, M., Jacobsen, A., Roos, M., Willighagen, E. L., van Enckevort, D., Evelo, C. T., & Curfs, L. M. G. (2018). MECP2 variation in Rett syndrome-An overview of current coverage of genetic and phenotype data within existing databases. Human Mutation, 39(7), 914–924. doi:10.1002/humu.23542
Martens, M., Verbruggen, T., Nymark, P., Grafström, R., Burgoon, L. D., Aladjov, H., Torres Andón, F., Evelo, C. T., & Willighagen, E. L. (2018). Introducing WikiPathways as a Data-Source to Support Adverse Outcome Pathways for Regulatory Risk Assessment of Chemicals and Nanomaterials. Frontiers in Genetics, 9. doi:10.3389/fgene.2018.00661
Miller, R. A., Woollard, P., Willighagen, E. L., Digles, D., Kutmon, M., Loizou, A., Waagmeester, A., Senger, S., & Evelo, C. T. (2018). Explicit interaction information from WikiPathways in RDF facilitates drug discovery in the Open PHACTS Discovery Platform. F1000Research, 7, 75. doi:10.12688/f1000research.13197.2
Slenter, D. N., Kutmon, M., Hanspers, K., Riutta, A., Windsor, J., Nunes, N., Mélius, J., Cirillo, E., Coort, S. L., Digles, D., Ehrhart, F., Giesbertz, P., Kalafati, M., Martens, M., Miller, R., Nishida, K., Rieswijk, L., Waagmeester, A., Eijssen, L. M. T., … Willighagen, E. L. (2017). WikiPathways: a multifaceted pathway database bridging metabolomics to other omics research. Nucleic Acids Research, 46(D1), D661–D667. doi:10.1093/nar/gkx1064
Karcher, S., Willighagen, E. L., Rumble, J., Ehrhart, F., Evelo, C. T., Fritts, M., Gaheen, S., Harper, S. L., Hoover, M. D., Jeliazkova, N., Lewinski, N., Marchese Robinson, R. L., Mills, K. C., Mustad, A. P., Thomas, D. G., Tsiliki, G., & Hendren, C. O. (2018). Integration among databases and data sets to support productive nanotechnology: Challenges and recommendations. NanoImpact, 9, 85–101. doi:10.1016/j.impact.2017.11.002
2017
Lampa, S., Willighagen, E., Kohonen, P., King, A., Vrandečić, D., Grafström, R., & Spjuth, O. (2017). RDFIO: extending Semantic MediaWiki for interoperable biomedical data management. Journal of Biomedical Semantics, 8(1). doi:10.1186/s13326-017-0136-y
Leist, M., Ghallab, A., Graepel, R., Marchan, R., Hassan, R., Bennekou, S. H., Limonciel, A., Vinken, M., Schildknecht, S., Waldmann, T., Danen, E., van Ravenzwaay, B., Kamp, H., Gardner, I., Godoy, P., Bois, F. Y., Braeuning, A., Reif, R., Oesch, F., … Hengstler, J. G. (2017). Adverse outcome pathways: opportunities, limitations and open questions. Archives of Toxicology, 91(11), 3477–3505. doi:10.1007/s00204-017-2045-3
Nymark, P., Rieswijk, L., Ehrhart, F., Jeliazkova, N., Tsiliki, G., Sarimveis, H., Evelo, C. T., Hongisto, V., Kohonen, P., Willighagen, E., & Grafström, R. C. (2017). A Data Fusion Pipeline for Generating and Enriching Adverse Outcome Pathway Descriptions. Toxicological Sciences, 162(1), 264–275. doi:10.1093/toxsci/kfx252
van Rijswijk, M., Beirnaert, C., Caron, C., Cascante, M., Dominguez, V., Dunn, W. B., Ebbels, T. M. D., Giacomoni, F., Gonzalez-Beltran, A., Hankemeier, T., Haug, K., Izquierdo-Garcia, J. L., Jimenez, R. C., Jourdan, F., Kale, N., Klapa, M. I., Kohlbacher, O., Koort, K., Kultima, K., … Steinbeck, C. (2017). The future of metabolomics in ELIXIR. F1000Research, 6, 1649. doi:10.12688/f1000research.12342.2
Kohonen, P., Parkkinen, J. A., Willighagen, E. L., Ceder, R., Wennerberg, K., Kaski, S., & Grafström, R. C. (2017). A transcriptomics data-driven gene space accurately predicts liver cytopathology and drug-induced liver injury. Nature Communications, 8(1). doi:10.1038/ncomms15932
Willighagen, E. L., Mayfield, J. W., Alvarsson, J., Berg, A., Carlsson, L., Jeliazkova, N., Kuhn, S., Pluskal, T., Rojas-Chertó, M., Spjuth, O., Torrance, G., Evelo, C. T., Guha, R., & Steinbeck, C. (2017). The Chemistry Development Kit (CDK) v2.0: atom typing, depiction, molecular formulas, and substructure searching. Journal of Cheminformatics, 9(1). doi:10.1186/s13321-017-0220-4
2016
Wohlgemuth, G., Mehta, S. S., Mejia, R. F., Neumann, S., Pedrosa, D., Pluskal, T., Schymanski, E. L., Willighagen, E. L., Wilson, M., Wishart, D. S., Arita, M., Dorrestein, P. C., Bandeira, N., Wang, M., Schulze, T., Salek, R. M., Steinbeck, C., Nainala, V. C., Mistrik, R., … Fiehn, O. (2016). SPLASH, a hashed identifier for mass spectra. Nature Biotechnology, 34(11), 1099–1101. doi:10.1038/nbt.3689
Spjuth, O., Rydberg, P., Willighagen, E. L., Evelo, C. T., & Jeliazkova, N. (2016). XMetDB: an open access database for xenobiotic metabolism. Journal of Cheminformatics, 8(1). doi:10.1186/s13321-016-0161-3
Waagmeester, A., Kutmon, M., Riutta, A., Miller, R., Willighagen, E. L., Evelo, C. T., & Pico, A. R. (2016). Using the Semantic Web for Rapid Integration of WikiPathways with Other Biological Online Data Resources. PLOS Computational Biology, 12(6), e1004989. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004989
2015
Kutmon, M., Riutta, A., Nunes, N., Hanspers, K., Willighagen, E. L., Bohler, A., Mélius, J., Waagmeester, A., Sinha, S. R., Miller, R., Coort, S. L., Cirillo, E., Smeets, B., Evelo, C. T., & Pico, A. R. (2015). WikiPathways: capturing the full diversity of pathway knowledge. Nucleic Acids Research, 44(D1), D488–D494. doi:10.1093/nar/gkv1024
Tsiliki, G., Munteanu, C. R., Seoane, J. A., Fernandez-Lozano, C., Sarimveis, H., & Willighagen, E. L. (2015). RRegrs: an R package for computer-aided model selection with multiple regression models. Journal of Cheminformatics, 7(1). doi:10.1186/s13321-015-0094-2
Bohler, A., Eijssen, L. M. T., van Iersel, M. P., Leemans, C., Willighagen, E. L., Kutmon, M., Jaillard, M., & Evelo, C. T. (2015). Automatically visualise and analyse data on pathways using PathVisioRPC from any programming environment. BMC Bioinformatics, 16(1). doi:10.1186/s12859-015-0708-8
Fu, G., Batchelor, C., Dumontier, M., Hastings, J., Willighagen, E., & Bolton, E. (2015). PubChemRDF: towards the semantic annotation of PubChem compound and substance databases. Journal of Cheminformatics, 7(1). doi:10.1186/s13321-015-0084-4
Hastings, J., Jeliazkova, N., Owen, G., Tsiliki, G., Munteanu, C. R., Steinbeck, C., & Willighagen, E. (2015). eNanoMapper: harnessing ontologies to enable data integration for nanomaterial risk assessment. Journal of Biomedical Semantics, 6(1). doi:10.1186/s13326-015-0005-5
Jeliazkova, N., Chomenidis, C., Doganis, P., Fadeel, B., Grafström, R., Hardy, B., Hastings, J., Hegi, M., Jeliazkov, V., Kochev, N., Kohonen, P., Munteanu, C. R., Sarimveis, H., Smeets, B., Sopasakis, P., Tsiliki, G., Vorgrimmler, D., & Willighagen, E. (2015). The eNanoMapper database for nanomaterial safety information. Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology, 6, 1609–1634. doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.165
2014
Grafström, R. C., Nymark, P., Hongisto, V., Spjuth, O., Ceder, R., Willighagen, E., Hardy, B., Kaski, S., & Kohonen, P. (2015). Toward the Replacement of Animal Experiments through the Bioinformatics-driven Analysis of “Omics” Data from Human Cell Cultures. Alternatives to Laboratory Animals, 43(5), 325–332. doi:10.1177/02611929150430050
2013
Spjuth, O., Berg, A., Adams, S., & Willighagen, E. L. (2013). Applications of the InChI in cheminformatics with the CDK and Bioclipse. Journal of Cheminformatics, 5(1). doi:10.1186/1758-2946-5-14
Willighagen, E. L., Waagmeester, A., Spjuth, O., Ansell, P., Williams, A. J., Tkachenko, V., Hastings, J., Chen, B., & Wild, D. J. (2013). The ChEMBL database as linked open data. Journal of Cheminformatics, 5(1). doi:10.1186/1758-2946-5-23
2012
Spjuth, O., Georgiev, V., Carlsson, L., Alvarsson, J., Berg, A., Willighagen, E., Wikberg, J. E. S., & Eklund, M. (2012). Bioclipse-R: integrating management and visualization of life science data with statistical analysis. Bioinformatics, 29(2), 286–289. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/bts681
Kohonen, P., Benfenati, E., Bower, D., Ceder, R., Crump, M., Cross, K., Grafström, R. C., Healy, L., Helma, C., Jeliazkova, N., Jeliazkov, V., Maggioni, S., Miller, S., Myatt, G., Rautenberg, M., Stacey, G., Willighagen, E., Wiseman, J., & Hardy, B. (2013). The ToxBank Data Warehouse: Supporting the Replacement of In Vivo Repeated Dose Systemic Toxicity Testing. Molecular Informatics, 32(1), 47–63. doi:10.1002/minf.201200114
Marshall, M. S., Boyce, R., Deus, H. F., Zhao, J., Willighagen, E. L., Samwald, M., Pichler, E., Hajagos, J., Prud’hommeaux, E., & Stephens, S. (2012). Emerging practices for mapping and linking life sciences data using RDF — A case series. Journal of Web Semantics, 14, 2–13. doi:10.1016/j.websem.2012.02.003
Guha, R., & Willighagen, E. (2012). A Survey of Quantitative Descriptions of Molecular Structure. Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry, 12(18), 1946–1956. doi:10.2174/156802612804910278
Neylon, C., Aerts, J., Brown, C. T., Coles, S. J., Hatton, L., Lemire, D., Millman, K. J., Murray-Rust, P., Perez, F., Saunders, N., Shah, N., Smith, A., Varoquaux, G., & Willighagen, E. (2012). Changing computational research. The challenges ahead. Source Code for Biology and Medicine, 7(1). doi:10.1186/1751-0473-7-2
Williams, A. J., Ekins, S., Spjuth, O., & Willighagen, E. L. (2012). Accessing, Using, and Creating Chemical Property Databases for Computational Toxicology Modeling. In Methods in Molecular Biology (pp. 221–241). Humana Press. doi:10.1007/978-1-62703-050-2_10
Spjuth, O., Carlsson, L., Alvarsson, J., Georgiev, V., Willighagen, E., & Eklund, M. (2012). Open Source Drug Discovery with Bioclipse. Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry, 12(18), 1980–1986. doi:10.2174/156802612804910287
Wegner, J. K., Sterling, A., Guha, R., Bender, A., Faulon, J.-L., Hastings, J., O’Boyle, N., Overington, J., Van Vlijmen, H., & Willighagen, E. (2012). Cheminformatics. Communications of the ACM, 55(11), 65–75. doi:10.1145/2366316.2366334
Williams, A. J., Harland, L., Groth, P., Pettifer, S., Chichester, C., Willighagen, E. L., Evelo, C. T., Blomberg, N., Ecker, G., Goble, C., & Mons, B. (2012). Open PHACTS: semantic interoperability for drug discovery. Drug Discovery Today, 17(21–22), 1188–1198. doi:10.1016/j.drudis.2012.05.016
2011
Hastings, J., Chepelev, L., Willighagen, E., Adams, N., Steinbeck, C., & Dumontier, M. (2011). The Chemical Information Ontology: Provenance and Disambiguation for Chemical Data on the Biological Semantic Web. PLoS ONE, 6(10), e25513. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0025513
Rojas-Chertó, M., Kasper, P. T., Willighagen, E. L., Vreeken, R. J., Hankemeier, T., & Reijmers, T. H. (2011). Elemental composition determination based on MSn. Bioinformatics, 27(17), 2376–2383. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btr409
Samwald, M., Jentzsch, A., Bouton, C., Kallesøe, C. S., Willighagen, E., Hajagos, J., Marshall, M. S., Prud’hommeaux, E., Hassanzadeh, O., Pichler, E., & Stephens, S. (2011). Linked open drug data for pharmaceutical research and development. Journal of Cheminformatics, 3(1). doi:10.1186/1758-2946-3-19
Truszkowski, A., Neumann, S., Zielesny, A., Willighagen, E., & Steinbeck, C. (2011). CDK-Taverna 2.0: migration and enhancements of an open-source pipelining solution. Journal of Cheminformatics, 3(S1). doi:10.1186/1758-2946-3-s1-p5
Willighagen, E. L., Jeliazkova, N., Hardy, B., Grafström, R. C., & Spjuth, O. (2011). Computational toxicology using the OpenTox application programming interface and Bioclipse. BMC Research Notes, 4(1). doi:10.1186/1756-0500-4-487
Jessop, D. M., Adams, S. E., Willighagen, E. L., Hawizy, L., & Murray-Rust, P. (2011). OSCAR4: a flexible architecture for chemical text-mining. Journal of Cheminformatics, 3(1). doi:10.1186/1758-2946-3-41
O’Boyle, N. M., Guha, R., Willighagen, E. L., Adams, S. E., Alvarsson, J., Bradley, J.-C., Filippov, I. V., Hanson, R. M., Hanwell, M. D., Hutchison, G. R., James, C. A., Jeliazkova, N., Lang, A. S., Langner, K. M., Lonie, D. C., Lowe, D. M., Pansanel, J., Pavlov, D., Spjuth, O., … Murray-Rust, P. (2011). Open Data, Open Source and Open Standards in chemistry: The Blue Obelisk five years on. Journal of Cheminformatics, 3(1). doi:10.1186/1758-2946-3-37
Truszkowski, A., Jayaseelan, K. V., Neumann, S., Willighagen, E. L., Zielesny, A., & Steinbeck, C. (2011). New developments on the cheminformatics open workflow environment CDK-Taverna. Journal of Cheminformatics, 3(1). doi:10.1186/1758-2946-3-54
Willighagen, E. L., Alvarsson, J., Andersson, A., Eklund, M., Lampa, S., Lapins, M., Spjuth, O., & Wikberg, J. E. (2011). Linking the Resource Description Framework to cheminformatics and proteochemometrics. Journal of Biomedical Semantics, 2(Suppl 1), S6. doi:10.1186/2041-1480-2-s1-s6
Willighagen, E. L., & Brändle, M. P. (2011). Resource description framework technologies in chemistry. Journal of Cheminformatics, 3(1). doi:10.1186/1758-2946-3-15
2010
Kuhn, T., Willighagen, E. L., Zielesny, A., & Steinbeck, C. (2010). CDK-Taverna: an open workflow environment for cheminformatics. BMC Bioinformatics, 11(1). doi:10.1186/1471-2105-11-159
Spjuth, O., Willighagen, E. L., Guha, R., Eklund, M., & Wikberg, J. E. (2010). Towards interoperable and reproducible QSAR analyses: Exchange of datasets. Journal of Cheminformatics, 2(1). doi:10.1186/1758-2946-2-5
Wohlgemuth, G., Haldiya, P. K., Willighagen, E., Kind, T., & Fiehn, O. (2010). The Chemical Translation Service—a web-based tool to improve standardization of metabolomic reports. Bioinformatics, 26(20), 2647–2648. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btq476
2009
Spjuth, O., Alvarsson, J., Berg, A., Eklund, M., Kuhn, S., Mäsak, C., Torrance, G., Wagener, J., Willighagen, E. L., Steinbeck, C., & Wikberg, J. E. (2009). Bioclipse 2: A scriptable integration platform for the life sciences. BMC Bioinformatics, 10(1). doi:10.1186/1471-2105-10-397
Wagener, J., Spjuth, O., Willighagen, E. L., & Wikberg, J. E. (2009). XMPP for cloud computing in bioinformatics supporting discovery and invocation of asynchronous web services. BMC Bioinformatics, 10(1). doi:10.1186/1471-2105-10-279
2007
Willighagen, E. L., Wehrens, R., Melssen, W., de Gelder, R., & Buydens, L. M. C. (2007). Supervised Self-Organizing Maps in Crystal Property and Structure Prediction. Crystal Growth & Design, 7(9), 1738–1745. doi:10.1021/cg060872y
Willighagen, E. L., O’Boyle, N. M., Gopalakrishnan, H., Jiao, D., Guha, R., Steinbeck, C., & Wild, D. J. (2007). Userscripts for the Life Sciences. BMC Bioinformatics, 8(1). doi:10.1186/1471-2105-8-487
Kuhn, S., Helmus, T., Lancashire, R. J., Murray-Rust, P., Rzepa, H. S., Steinbeck, C., & Willighagen, E. L. (2007). Chemical Markup, XML, and the World Wide Web. 7. CMLSpect, an XML Vocabulary for Spectral Data. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 47(6), 2015–2034. doi:10.1021/ci600531a
Spjuth, O., Helmus, T., Willighagen, E. L., Kuhn, S., Eklund, M., Wagener, J., Murray-Rust, P., Steinbeck, C., & Wikberg, J. E. (2007). Bioclipse: an open source workbench for chemo- and bioinformatics. BMC Bioinformatics, 8(1). doi:10.1186/1471-2105-8-59
2006
Guha, R., Howard, M. T., Hutchison, G. R., Murray-Rust, P., Rzepa, H., Steinbeck, C., Wegner, J., & Willighagen, E. L. (2006). The Blue Obelisk—Interoperability in Chemical Informatics. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 46(3), 991–998. doi:10.1021/ci050400b
Steinbeck, C., Hoppe, C., Kuhn, S., Floris, M., Guha, R., & Willighagen, E. (2006). Recent Developments of the Chemistry Development Kit (CDK) - An Open-Source Java Library for Chemo- and Bioinformatics. Current Pharmaceutical Design, 12(17), 2111–2120. doi:10.2174/138161206777585274
Willighagen, E. L., Denissen, H. M. G. W., Wehrens, R., & Buydens, L. M. C. (2006). On the Use of 1H and 13C 1D NMR Spectra as QSPR Descriptors. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 46(2), 487–494. doi:10.1021/ci050282s
Willighagen, E. L., Wehrens, R., & Buydens, L. M. C. (2006). Molecular Chemometrics. Critical Reviews in Analytical Chemistry, 36(3–4), 189–198. doi:10.1080/10408340600969601
2005
Willighagen, E. L., Wehrens, R., Verwer, P., de Gelder, R., & Buydens, L. M. C. (2005). Method for the computational comparison of crystal structures. Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science, 61(1), 29–36. doi:10.1107/s0108768104028344
2004
Murray-Rust, P., Rzepa, H. S., Williamson, M. J., & Willighagen, E. L. (2004). Chemical Markup, XML, and the World Wide Web. 5. Applications of Chemical Metadata in RSS Aggregators. Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences, 44(2), 462–469. doi:10.1021/ci034244p
2003
Steinbeck, C., Han, Y., Kuhn, S., Horlacher, O., Luttmann, E., & Willighagen, E. (2003). The Chemistry Development Kit (CDK): An Open-Source Java Library for Chemo- and Bioinformatics. Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences, 43(2), 493–500. doi:10.1021/ci025584y
2002
Buijnsters, P. J. J. A., García Rodríguez, C. L., Willighagen, E. L., Sommerdijk, N. A. J. M., Kremer, A., Camilleri, P., Feiters, M. C., Nolte, R. J. M., & Zwanenburg, B. (2002). Cationic Gemini Surfactants Based on Tartaric Acid: Synthesis, Aggregation, Monolayer Behaviour, and Interaction with DNA. European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2002(8), 1397–1406. doi:10.1002/1099-0690(200204)2002:8<1397::aid-ejoc1397>3.0.co;2-6
2001
Willighagen, E., (2001). Processing CML Conventions in Java, Internet Journal of Chemistry, 4.
2000
Krause, S., Willighagen, E., & Steinbeck, C. (2000). JChemPaint - Using the Collaborative Forces of the Internet to Develop a Free Editor for 2D Chemical Structures. Molecules, 5(1), 93–98. doi:10.3390/50100093
Books and chapters
Scientific publication as a book or as a contribution to a book including proceedings.
Books
Addshore, D. Mietchen, E. Willighagen, Wikidata Queries around the SARS-CoV-2 virus and pandemic. 2020 (free ebook). doi:10.5281/zenodo.3977414
E. Willighagen, Groovy Cheminformatics with the Chemistry Development Kit, Lulu.com, 2011 (now as free and open access ebook).
J. Wikberg, M. Eklund, E. Willighagen, O. Spjuth, M. Lapins, O. Engkvist, J. Alvarsson, Introduction to Pharmaceutical Bioinformatics. Oakleaf Academic, Stockholm, Sweden. ISBN: 9-789-19794030-6, 2010.
Conference proceedings
Kuhn, T., Banda, J. M., Willighagen, E., Ehrhart, F., Evelo, C., Malas, T. B., Dumontier, M., Merono-Penuela, A., Malic, A., Poelen, J. H., Hurlbert, A. H., Centeno Ortiz, E., Furlong, L. I., Queralt-Rosinach, N., & Chichester, C. (2018). Nanopublications: A Growing Resource of Provenance-Centric Scientific Linked Data. 2018 IEEE 14th International Conference on E-Science (e-Science), 83–92. doi:10.1109/escience.2018.00024
T. Kuhn, E. Willighagen, C. Evelo, N. Queralt-Rosinach, E. Centeno, L.I. Furlong LI. Reliable Granular References to Changing Linked Data. In: d’Amato C, Fernandez M, Tamma V, Lecue F, Cudré-Mauroux P, Sequeda J, et al., editors. The Semantic Web – ISWC 2017. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2017. p. 436–51. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-68288-4_26
Nielsen, F. Å., Mietchen, D., & Willighagen, E. (2017). Scholia, Scientometrics and Wikidata. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 237–259). Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-70407-4_36
C. Batchelor, C. Brenninkmeijer, C. Chichester, M. Davies, D. Digles, I. Dunlop, C. Evelo, A. Gaulton, C. Goble, A. Gray, P. Groth, L. Harland, K. Karapetyan, A. Loizou, J. Overington, S. Pettifer, J. Steele, R. Stevens, V. Tkachenko, A. Waag- meester, A. Williams, E. Willighagen, Scientific lenses to support multiple views over linked chemistry data. In: Mika, P., Tudorache, T., Bernstein, A., Welty, C., Knoblock, C., Vrandečić, D., Groth, P., Noy, N., Janowicz, K., Goble, C. (Eds.), The Semantic Web – ISWC 2014. Vol. 8796 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, Ch. 7, pp. 98-113, 2014. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-11964-9_7
N. Jeliazkova, P. Doganis, B. Fadeel, R. Grafstrom, J. Hastings, V. Jeliazkov, P. Kohonen, C. Munteanu, H. Sarimveis, B. Smeets, G. Tsiliki, D. Vorgrimmler, E. Willighagen, The first eNanoMapper prototype: A substance database to support safe-by-design. In: Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), 2014 IEEE Interna- tional Conference on. IEEE, pp. 1-9. doi:10.1109/bibm.2014.6999367, 2014.
J. Hastings, E. Willighagen, G. Owen, N. Jeliazkova, The eNanoMapper Consortium, C. Steinbeck, eNanoMapper: Opportunities and challenges in using ontologies to enable data integration for nanomaterial risk assessment. In: Proceedings of the 17th Annual Bio-Ontologies Meeting. pp. 18-21, 2014.
C. Goble, A. Gray, L. Harland, K. Karapetyan, A. Loizou, I. Mikhailov, Y. Rankka, S. Senger, V. Tkachenko, A. Williams, E. Willighagen, Incorporating commercial and private data into an open linked data platform for drug discovery. In: The Semantic Web – ISWC, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol 8219. pp. 65-80. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-41338-4_5, 2013.
C. Brenninkmeijer, C. Evelo, C. Goble, A. Gray, P. Groth, S. Pettifer, R. Stevens, A. William, E. Willighagen, Scientific Lenses over Linked Data: An Approach to Support Task Specific Views of the Data. A Vision. In: Linked Science 2012 - Tackling Big Data, 2012.
E.L. Willighagen, J.E.S. Wikberg, Linking Open Drug Data to Cheminformatics and Proteochemometrics, CEUR Workshop Proceedings In SWAT4LS-2009 - Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences, Vol. 559, 2010.
Zhang, Y., Murray-Rust, P., Dove, M., Glen, R.C., Rzepa, H.S., Townsend, J.A., Tyrell, S., Wakelin, J., Willighagen, E.L., 2004. Jumbo - an XML infrastructure for eScience. In: Proceedings of UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2004. Vol. 1. pp. 930-933, 2004.
Murray-Rust, P., Glen, R.C., Rzepa, H.S., Stewart, J.J.P., Townsend, J.A., Willighagen, E.L., Yong, Z., A semantic grid for molecular science. In: Proceedings of the 2003 UK e-Science All Hands Meeting, 2003.
Book chapters
D.N. Slenter, M. Kutmon, E.L. Willighagen, WikiPathways: Integrating Pathway Knowledge with Clinical Data, in: N. Blau, C. Dionisi Vici, C.R. Ferreira, C. Vianey-Saban, C.D.M. van Karnebeek (Eds.), Physician’s Guide to the Diagnosis, Treatment, and Follow-Up of Inherited Metabolic Diseases, Springer International Publishing, UK, Ch. 73, 2022. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-67727-5_73
A.J. Williams, S. Ekins, O. Spjuth, E. Willighagen, Acessing, Using, and Creating Chemical Property Databases for Computational Toxicology Modeling, In: Computational Toxicology (Vol. 929), Springer Science+Business Media, Ch. 10, 2012.
E. Willighagen, R. Affentranger, R. Grafström, B. Hardy, N. Jeliazkova, O. Spjuth, Interactive Predictive Toxicology with Bioclipse and OpenTox, In: Open Source Software in Life Science Research: Practical Solutions to Common Challenges in the Pharmaceutical Industry and Beyond, Ed. L. Harland, M. Forster, Biohealthcare Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK, Ch. 2, ISBN: 1-907-568972, 2012. doi:10.1533/9781908818249.35
B. Hardy, A. Affentranger, E. Benfenati, N. Jeliazkova, V. Jeliazkov, G. My- att, J. Wiseman, G. Stacey, R. Grafström, E. Willighagen, C. Helma, ToxBank: Supporting Integrated Data Analysis and Servicing of Alternative Testing Methods in Toxicology, In: Towards the Replacement of in vivo Repeated Dose Systemic Toxicity Testing, SEURAT-1, 2011.
R. Guha, O. Spjuth, E. Willighagen, Collaborative Cheminformatics Applications, In Collaborative Computational Technologies for Biomedical Research, Ed. S. Ekins, M.A.Z. Hupcey, and A.J. Williams, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, USA, ISBN: 9-780-470-63803-3, 2011. doi:10.1002/9781118026038.ch24
E. Willighagen, 3D Molecular Representations, In Handbook of Cheminformatics Algorithms, Ed. Faulon, J-P. and Bender, A., CRC Press, New York, US, Ch. 3. ISBN: 1-420-08292-2, 2010. doi:10.1201/9781420082999-c3
J-C. Bradley, R. Guha, A. Lang, P. Lindenbaum, C. Neylon, A. Williams, E. Willighagen, Beautifying Data in the Real World. In: Beautiful Data - The Stories Behind Elegant Data Solutions, O’Reilly Media, Inc., Sebastopol, US, Ch. 16, ISBN: 0-596-15711-8, 2009.
Editorials
Guha, R., Willighagen, E., Zdrazil, B., & Jeliazkova, N. (2021). What is the role of cheminformatics in a pandemic? Journal of Cheminformatics, 13(1). doi:10.1186/s13321-021-00491-6
Guha, R., Jeliazkova, N., Willighagen, E., & Zdrazil, B. (2021). Reply to “FAIR chemical structure in the Journal of Cheminformatics.” Journal of Cheminformatics, 13(1). doi:10.1186/s13321-021-00521-3
Guha, R., & Willighagen, E. (2020). Learning cheminformatics. Journal of Cheminformatics, 12(1). doi:10.1186/s13321-019-0406-z
Willighagen, E. (2020). Adoption of the Citation Typing Ontology by the Journal of Cheminformatics. Journal of Cheminformatics, 12(1). doi:10.1186/s13321-020-00448-1
Willighagen, E., Jeliazkova, N., & Guha, R. (2019). Journal of Cheminformatics, ORCID, and GitHub. Journal of Cheminformatics, 11(1). doi:10.1186/s13321-019-0365-4
Guha, R., & Willighagen, E. (2017). Helping to improve the practice of cheminformatics. Journal of Cheminformatics, 9(1). doi:10.1186/s13321-017-0217-z
Willighagen, E. L., & Brändle, M. P. (2011). Resource description framework technologies in chemistry. Journal of Cheminformatics, 3(1). doi:10.1186/1758-2946-3-15
Teaching experience
C-roles
2013-present
Course coordinator, PRA3006: Programming in the Life Sciences. Maastricht University
2018-2020
Block coordinator, MBS1015: Scientific Programming. Maastricht University
2017-2018
Block coordinator, BMS1004: Biomedical Approaches. Development. Maastricht University
2012-2018
Track coordinator, BMW2007: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology. Maastricht University
B-roles
2016-2024
Course planning group, HZuyd Bioinformatics. Hoge School Zuyd.
2016-2022
Block planning group member, BBS1001: Building Blocks of Life. Maastricht University
2015-2016
Block planning group member, BMW1006: Experts Collaborate. Maastricht University
2007
Teacher, Homology Modelling. CUBIC, Cologne University
A-roles
2021-present
Workshop assistant, BBS1001: Building Blocks of Life. Maastricht University
2020-present
Lecturer, MBS1101: Advanced Principles of Genetics & Genomics. Maastricht University
2018-present
Lecturer, MSB: Systems Biology. Maastricht University
2018-present
Assessor, BBS3006: Thesis Bachelor Biomedical Sciences. Maastricht University
2020-2021
Lecturer, BBS3011: Global differences in diseases and treatment. Maastricht University
2016-present
BBS-MEN: Mentor Bachelor Biomedical Sciences. Maastricht University
2015-2016
Mentor Year 1, Biomedical Sciences. Maastricht University
2014-2018
Tutor Problem-based Learning (PBL) Biomedical Sciences, BBS1001 and others. Maastricht University
Thesis promotorship and supervision
Ph.D. co-promotor
2017-2024
Denise Slenter, Maastricht University. 10.26481/dis.20240624ds
2017-2024
Marvin Martens, Maastricht University. 10.26481/dis.20240129mm
2019-2024
Andra Waagmeester, Maastricht University. 10.26481/dis.20240116aw
2018-2023
Ryan Miller, Maastricht University. 10.26481/dis.20221206rm
Ph.D. supervision
2024-present
Sidra Adil, Maastricht University.
2022-present
Jente Houweling, Maastricht University.
2022-present
Javier Millán Acosta, Maastricht University.
2020-2025
Ammar Ammar, Maastricht University.
Awards and honors
2021
Runner Up Prize, Open Initiatives Trophies
From the jury-report: “Egon is someone with high standards who really tries to
hold himself accountable to these as well. He is not afraid to point his finger at
the elephant in the room. We need people like Egon as a long time driving force
for cultural change.”
2013
Royal Society of Chemistry eScience Hero Award
For the contributions open source cheminformatics, in particular the Chemistry
Development Kit, $2500. press release
2007
Blue Obelisk Award
For achievements in promoting Open Data, Open Source, and Open Standards
in cheminformatics.
Grants and funding
= grant, UM = Maastricht University
Research grants
2025-present
FAIR4ChemNL: Accelerating the adoption of universal data standards in chemistry
Dutch Research Council (NWO) / TDCC-NES. Sum: 400 k€, Person: ?? k€. Sole PI.
2025-present
FAIRify your metabolomics data: achieving convergence on standards for reuse-ready data and workflows (FAIRify)
Dutch Research Council (NWO) / TDCC-LSH. Sum: ? k€, Person: ?? k€. Sole PI.
2024-present
INTOXICOM Implementation Study.
ELIXIR Europe. Sum: 59 k€, Person: ?? k€. Co-PI with Marvin Martens
2023-present
TGX-MAP: Transcriptomics in Risk Assessment.
EFSA. Sum: ?? k€, UM: 276 k€. Co-PI with Tooba Abbassi-Daloii and Marvin Martens.
2022-present
The Virtual Human Platform for Safety Assessment (VHP4Safety).
Dutch Research Council (NWO), NWA 1292.19.272. Sum: 10.4 M€, UM: 1.38 M€. Co-PI with Chris Evelo.
2024-2025
Chemistry Development Kit 2024. Dutch Research Council (NWO). Sum: 50 k€, Person: 25 k€. Sole PI. doi:10.3897/rio.10.e124884
2022-2023
Lipid Pathway Curation.
ELIXIR Europe. Sum: ?? k€, UM: 5.7 k€. Co-PI with Denise Slenter.
2022-2023
BridgeDb and Wikidata: a powerful combination generating interoperable open research,
Dutch Research Council (NWO), 203.001.121. Sum: 50 k€, UM: 50 k€. Sole PI. doi:10.3897/rio.8.e83031
2020-2024
Computing infrastructure for the definition, performance testing and implementation of safe-by-design approaches in nanotechnology supply chains (SbD4nano),
European Commission H2020. 862195. Sum: 5.98 M€, UM: 343 k€. Sole PI.
2019-2021
Scholia,
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. G-2019-11458. Sum: 496 k€, UM: 75 k€. Sole PI. doi:[10.3897/rio.5.e35820]https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.5.e35820)
2019-2023
Risk Governance of Nanotechnology (RiskGONE),
European Commission H2020. 814425. Sum: 5.00 M€, UM: 221 k€. Sole PI.
2019-2023
Innovative Nanoinformatics models and tools: towards a Solid, verified and Integrated Approach to Predictive (eco)Toxicology (NanoSolveIT),
European Commission H2020. 814572. Sum: 7.49 M€, UM: 407 k€. Sole PI.
2018-2022
The European Nanotechnology Community Informatics Platform: Bridging data and disciplinary gaps for industry and regulators (NanoCommons),
European Commission H2020. 731032. Sum: 5.59 M€, UM: 291 k€. Sole PI.
2014-2017
eNanoMapper - A Database and Ontology Framework for Nanomaterials Design and Safety Assessment,
European Commission FP7. 604134. Sum: 4.98 M€, UM: 843 k€. Sole PI.
Talks
Keynotes
2022
OpenTox Virtual Conference 2022. Online.
2015
International Conference on Biomedical Ontology. Lisbon, Portugal
Invited talks
2023
University of Groningen. Open Science Community Groningen Summer Event. Groningen, The Netherlands
OECD. OECD “FAIR research output for nanosafety” meeting. Paris, France
2019
Beilstein Open Science 2019. Rüdesheim, Germany
2017
AgreenSkills+ Annual Meeting. Paris, France
2015
System Biology in Nanosafety Research. Stockholm, Sweden
2014
Royal Society of Chemistry. What’s in a Name?. London, UK
2009
GDCh-Wissenschafts-forum Chemie 2009. Frankfurt, Germany
2007
GDCh-Wissenschaftsforum Chemie 2007. Ulm, Germany
Memberships
1993-???,???-present
KNCV
2023-2024
American Chemical Society
Professional service
Scientific committees
2024-present
Titular Member, International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, CPCDS
2023-present
Advisor Board Member, The Netherlands Reproducibility Network
2022-present
Advisory Board Member, NFDI4Chem
2022-present
Founder of the Open Science Community Maastricht
2014-present
Board Member, Stichting Chemische Congressen 6
2020-2022
Scientific Advisor, International Advisory Board of the NanoFabNet Project
2018-2024
Working Group Chair, Database Working Group, EU NanoSafety Cluster
2013-2026
Working Group Chair, Database Working Group, EU NanoSafety Cluster
Editorial Boards
2025-present
Guest-editor, Journal of Cheminformatics (Springer Nature. Top10 journal)
2016-2021
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Cheminformatics (Springer Nature. Top10 journal)
2010
Guest-editor, Journal of Cheminformatics (Springer Nature. Top10 journal)
2009-2016
Invited Expert, World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
2009-2011
CINF Programming Committee Member, American Chemical Society
2007-2011
Advisor, ChemSpider.com Advisory Group
Media
Opinions
2020
Caspar van Lissa c.s. Overheid wees transparant in strijd tegen het coronavirus. NRC (2020) https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2020/04/27/overheid-wees-transparant-in-strijd-tegen-het-coronavirus-a3997982
2019
Egon Willighagen. Universiteiten mogen hun rol in de samenleving niet uitbesteden. ScienceGuide (2019) https://www.scienceguide.nl/2019/11/universiteiten-mogen-hun-rol-in-de-samenleving-niet-uitbesteden/
Interviews
2019
Laura Howes. Chemistry data should be FAIR, proponents say. But getting there will be a long road, C&EN (2019) https://cen.acs.org/policy/publishing/Chemistry-data-should-FAIR-proponents/97/i35
Sicco de Knecht. So what about editor compensation?, ScienceGuide (2019) https://www.scienceguide.nl/2019/04/so-what-about-editor-compensation/
2018
“Als je geen open access wilt, zeg dat dan gewoon hardop!” ScienceGuide (2018) https://www.scienceguide.nl/2018/12/als-je-geen-open-access-wilt-zeg-dat-dan-gewoon-hardop/
Arjen Dijkgraag. Open accessstress. C2W (2018), https://www.sciencelink.net/nieuws-and-verdieping/open-accessstress/8374.article
2017
Puck Moll. Focus op software, C2W (2017), https://www.sciencelink.net/nieuws-and-verdieping/focus-op-software/5919.article
News
2021
Maurice Timmermans, Twee UM’ers ontvangen NWO-beurzen voor open science, Observant (2021) https://www.observantonline.nl/Home/Artikelen/id/57779/twee-um-ers-ontvangen-nwo-beurzen-voor%C2%A0open-science
2020
Cleo Freriks, UM researchers: corona is given high priority, Observant (2020) https://www.observantonline.nl/english/Home/Articles/id/43066
2019
Andrea Widener. Societies and scientists react to open access Plan S, C&EN (2019) https://cen.acs.org/policy/publishing/Societies-scientists-react-open-access/97/web/2019/02
Sicco de Knecht. Germans to close “transformative” deal with SpringerNature, ScienceGuide (2019) https://www.scienceguide.nl/2019/08/germans-to-close-transformative-deal-with-springernature/
2018
Puck Moll. Nieuwe generatie, C2W (2017), https://www.sciencelink.net/nieuws-and-verdieping/nieuwe-generatie/6551.article
2014
Wendy Degens, Cleo Freriks, Maurice Timmermans, “I see bright researchers leaving the university”, Observant (2014) https://www.observantonline.nl/english/Home-old/Articles/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/2111/I-see-bright-researchers-leaving-the-university
International Newsletters
2022
ELIXIR launches new Toxicology Community, ELIXIR Europe News (2022) https://elixir-europe.org/news/new-toxicology-community
2021
Niets afschaffen, wel verbreden, NWO Magazine (2021) https://www.nwo.nl/niets-afschaffen-wel-verbreden
Languages
Native: Dutch
Advanced: English
Basic: German
Last updated: May 2025