OMeR first's community is oriented toward two national infrastructures: MetaboHub and IFB. Partnership within these consortia is ruled by each consortium agreement signed by the different research institutes and universities (CEA, CNRS ...).
OMeR is also in strong collaboration with research teams of INRA divisions and regularly exchange with head of divisions to ensure a synergetic development.OMeR is also tightly connected with INRA CNOC platforms in Clermont- Ferrand (Plateforme d’Exploration du Métabolisme – PFEM) and Toulouse (MetaToul). These platforms produce data and contribute to OMeR since several ETPs are shared with these structures. OMeR is also connected to other INRA platforms (e.g. plateforme de métabolomique de Bordeaux – PMB or Laberca, Nantes).
OMeR strongly relies on its collaboration with CEA (strongly involved in MetaboHub) and INRIA for methodological inputs. OMeR is establishing private partnerships. Main achievement is the collaboration contract between MedDay pharmaceutical and INRA (Toxalim) on the development of MetExplore.
OMeR is involved in several international partnerships. OMeR is contributing on several aspects of the European Bioinformatics infrastructure ELIXIR. In particular, OMeR participates to the “Metabolomics Community” project and Workflow4Metabolomics is considered as a key component in the « Service Delivery Plan » French ELIXIR node ELIXIR-FR (IFB). OMeR components are already included in several European projects. Two components (W4M and MetExplore) are involved in PhenoMeNal H2020 e- infrastructure project led by the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) where INRA is a partner (PI: Fabien Jourdan). The aim of PhenoMeNal is to propose an e-infrastructure for the analysis of large scale human phenotyping data. OMeR (UNH laboratory) is also partner in the European project Food Biomarkers Alliance (FoodBall) funded by the Europe Joint Programming Initiative (JPI) « A Healthy Diet for a Healthy Life ». OMeR contributes to the development of a database (PhytoHub.eu) to « Food metabolome ». JPI FoodBall, gives us the opportunity to work with Dr David Wishart (University of Alberta) who gained an international expertise in the development of web portals for the metabolome of model organisms and biological matrices (e.g. FoodDB, HumanMetabolome Database).