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The Netherlands X-omics Initiative (X-omics, pronounce as CROSS-omics) is a National Roadmap Large-Scale Research Infrastructure, partially funded by NWO with a total budget of 40 million euro. The project started September 2018 and will last for 10 years.

X-omics aims to establish a X-omics research infrastructure across the Netherlands, by combining technologies in the field of genomics, proteomics, metabolomics and data analysis, integration & stewardship. With this infrastructure biomedical problems can be solved using an integrated approach (analysis of samples using the available omics technologies of the infrastructure).

Two major goals are:
1. Advance X-omics technologies far beyond state-of-art,
2. Realize an integrated X-omics infrastructure in the Netherlands.

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X-omics has set up a multi-omics community to enable communication between researchers working in different omics fields of expertise. Via social media X-omics distributes news, highlights, publications and events to this community.

FAIR Data Cube workshop - June 24th 2025

X-omics is organizing a second edition of the FAIR Data Cube workshop following the success of the first one, on June 24th 2025, 13:00 – 16:00 CEST.
The FAIR Data Cube (FDCube) is an open-source infrastructure developed by the Netherlands X-omics initiative, designed to make -omics data FAIR at the source, promote data reuse and integrate various layers of -omics data. More information can be found here.

Learn how to deploy and use Fair Data Cube (FDCube) locally and on SURF Research Cloud in this X-omics workshop. To attend the workshop, prior knowledge is required.
Requirements:
•     Bring your own laptop
•     A browser (Chrome or Firefox is good enough)
•     Experience with Linux commands
•     Experience working with multi-omics data