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Wittwehr, C., Clerbaux, L.-A., Edwards, S., Angrish, M., Mortensen, H., Carusi, A., Gromelski, M., Lekka, E., Virvilis, V., Martens, M., Bonino da Silva Santos, L. O., & Nymark, P. (2024). Why adverse outcome pathways need to be FAIR. Altex, 41(1), 50-56. https://doi.org/10.14573/altex.2307131
Adverse outcome pathways (AOPs) provide evidence for demonstrating and assessing causality between measurable toxicological mechanisms and human or environmental adverse effects. AOPs have gained increasing attention over the past decade and are believed to provide the necessary steppingstone for more effective risk assessment of chemicals and materials and moving beyond the need for animal testing. However, as with all types of data and knowledge today, AOPs need to be reusable by machines, i.e., machine-actionable, in order to reach their full impact potential. Machine-actionability is supported by the FAIR principles, which guide findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability of data and knowledge. Here, we describe why AOPs need to be FAIR and touch on aspects such as the improved visibility and the increased trust that FAIRification of AOPs provides.