Maojo et al Table A1 (Continued) Name/acronym American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) Nanotechnology caNanoLab Database SAFENANO Database Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Database on Research into Safety of Manufactured Nanomaterials British Standards Institute (BSI) Nanotechnology Collaboratory for Structural Nanobiology ISO Nano Terminology MINChar NanoParticle Ontology Cancer Open Biomedical Resource Project Nanomaterials Registry Nanoparticle Information Library Nano-TAB DaNa Description ASTM standards for nanotechnology as well as nanotechnology terminology, property testing, and issues of health and safety Annotation of nanomaterials with characterizations resulting from physico-chemical and in vitro assays Data resource on nanotechnology hazard and risk Collects research projects that address environmental, human health, and safety issues of manufactured nanomaterials Documents relevant to nanotechnology, addressing nanotechnology terminology, health and safety issues, and product labeling Nanoparticle structure files and related research data, as well as resources for the visualization of nanoparticles It lists unambiguous terms and definitions related to particles in the field of nanotechnologies A community initiative to improve the utility of nanotoxicology studies through effective nanomaterial characterization An ontology with basic physical, chemical and functional nano characteristics, as used in cancer diagnosis and therapy Toolset for information retrieval for cancer nanotechnology-related information using biomedical ontologies Public resource of curated information on biological and environmental interactions of nanomaterials Nanoparticle library to organize and share information on nanomaterials, including health and safety-associated properties Data-sharing challenges in nanotechnology by identifying nanomaterials and characterizations in a tab-delimited format Acquisition, evaluation, and public-oriented presentation of society-relevant data and findings relating to nanomaterials Institution ASTM NCI, US NIH IOM OECD BSI ISO NCI, US NIH, Universidad de Talca (Chile) The Dow Chemical Company, Evonik Industries, Rice University, ICON, BASF Corporation, NIOSH, Clemson University, woodrow wilson International Center for Scholars, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), DuPont caBIG National Center for Biomedical Ontology through US NIH (NIH) NIBIB, NIEHS, NCI NIOSH NCI, US NIH DECHEMA eV Dovepress Geographical area Start year USA, Latin America 2008 International International USA USA UK UK USA USA USA USA USA USA Germany 2006 2006 2006 2007 2008 2008 2008 2008 2009 2009 2009 2009 2010 (Continued) 3888 submit your manuscript | www.dovepress.com Dovepress International Journal of Nanomedicine 2012:7