Transplant meeting. 01 July, 2014

1. European Life Sciences Infrastructure for Biological Information
www.elixir-europe.org
ELIXIR:The ESFRI Research
Infrastructure for biological Information

2. European Life Sciences Infrastructure for Biological Information
www.elixir-europe.org
Governance and Structure

3. ELIXIR Members
3
ECA members
Czech Rep Norway
Denmark Portugal
Estonia Sweden
Israel Switzerland
Netherlands UK
EMBL
MoU countries
Belgium
Finland
France
Greece
Italy
Slovenia
Spain

4. ELIXIR Nodes
4
• Institutes involved in
ELIXIR Nodes
• Collaboration Agreements
to be signed between Hub
and Nodes
• Nodes that are national
networks to develop own
internal collaboration
agreements

5. How do ELIXIR Hub & Nodes work together?
ELIXIR Node
•Research & Develop
Bioinformatics services
•Deliver Services through own
“brands”
•Management of core resources
•Develop & Deliver training
activities
•Participation in international
data consortia
• ELIXIR Mgmt & Secretariat
• Technical coordination across Nodes
• Drive standards development &
implementation
• Policy and Outreach
• Lead coordinated infrastructure
investments
ELIXIR Hub

6. SLIDE ON FUNDING MODEL
6

7. ESFRI prioritisation
7

8. Industry activities and user personas
Industry advisory Committee
•Call open for Members of Industry Advisory Committee for
ELIXIR
•To be made up industry users, suppliers and publishers
Innovation and SME Forum
•First forum takes place in Copenhagen on 24-25 November
•Support to SMEs on using ELIXIR’s resources
•Programme to be rolled out to other ELIXIR Nodes in 2015
User Persona Exercise

9. European Life Sciences Infrastructure for Biological Information
www.elixir-europe.org
Technical

10. European Research Infrastructures
10

11. European Research Infrastructures
11
LS
e-infrastructureslife sciences
ICT

12. Research infrastructures
Facilitate research
12
Data
ICTe-infrastructures
LSlife sciences
ysical facilities
ic information
Transfer
Computation
Storage

13. Research infrastructures
13

14. Infrastructure for Life Sciences
14
Services & connectors
to drive access and
exploitation
Integration and interoperability
of data and services
Sustain core data
resources
Access, Exchange & Compute
on sensitive data
Compute
Dat
a
Standards
Tools
Training
Professional skills for
managing and exploiting data
Access, Search, Analysis …
Integration, Optimization, Privacy, …
Storage, Network & Computing
Formats, Ontologies, Guidelines, …
Scientific & technical

15. Programme of work
15
Domain specific services
Data interoperability, vocabulary and ontology services
Tools interoperability and Service Registry
Data resources & services
Technical Services
Management and operations
Training
Compute
Dat
a
Standards
Tools
Training

16. • Working groups to coordinate the ELIXIR technical strategy
• Driven by national technical leads
• Plan, agree and implement technical strategies
• Represent ELIXIR on one specific technical topic
Task forces
16
Scientific
and funding
strategies
ELIXIR Programme of work
Task forces
Planning Agreement Implementation
Technical strategies
Pilot projects
HoNs
HoNs
HoNs
TCG

17. ELIXIRTask Forces
17
Task forces Programme of work
Cloud Technical services
Storage Technical services
Authentication and authorization Technical services
Service registry Tools Interoperability and Service Registry
Metrics, monitoring & quality control Data resources and services
Communication Management and Operations
Website Management and Operations
Training portal Training
e-Learning Training

18. 18
D e s c rip ti o n W e b -a d d r e ss
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Contact
ELIXIR:The Norway
Node
ELIXIR'sNorwayNodewill provide competence and infra-
structure buildingon key areasfor Norway, in particular marine
resourcesand medical research. Challengesrelated to processing
and analysisof datafrom next-generation sequencing and other
high-throughput methodsare important both to basicresearchin
theseareas, and to thedevelopment of new enterprises. The
nodewill alsoprovidetrainingandsupport toward researchers.
Professor Inge Jonassen
ELIXIR Norway Node
Computational Biology Unit
Department of Informatics
University of Bergen, Norway
Inge.Jonassen@ii.uib.no
www.elixir-norway.org
University of Bergen
The coordinating partner of the Elixir Norway node.The main focus is on
marine genomics and e-infrastructure.An early deliverable is LiceBase
developed in tight collaboration withe the Sea Lice Research Centre.
University of Oslo
Emphasizes biomedical resource provision an analysis, leveraging public
resources in integrative statistical genomics, with secure management of
person sensitive data.
NorwegianUniversityof LifeSciences
comparative fish genomics. Provision of web-based solutions for services,
toolboxes, and computational access to these data.
NorwegianUniversityof ScienceandTechnology
Tools and resources for analysing genome data, with focus on gene
regulation, non-protein-coding RNAs and epigenetics, but also bacterial
genomics. Handling and analysis ofdata from human biobanks.
University ofTromsø
Tools and pipelines for analyzing metagenomic (and genomic) data, with a
particular focus on taxonomic classification and bioprospecting (functional
and metabolic potential).
TheNorwegianELIXIRNodewill provideservicesandresourcestowardmarine
genomicsincludingresearchers, government, andindustry. TheNorwegian
Node will off several integratedpackagesgearedtowardslarge-scaleanalysisof
marine genomicand metagenomicdata (e.g. fishgenomicsandmarine bio-
prospecting).Thisalsoincludesprovisionof web-basedsolutionsfor services,
toolboxes, andcomputational accesstoreferencedata provided by theELIXIR
infrastructure.
Health and biobanks
TheNorwayNode supportsinfrastructure for handlingandanalysisof data for
medical research, includinghuman biobanks. Suchdatamaybesensitive, and
must bestoredwithsecureaccess. Thenodeisdevelopinginfrastructurefor
sensitive data.Toolsfordataanalysisareintegrated into NeLS, theNorwegian
e-infrastructureforlifesciences.Thisprovidesuser-friendlysolutionsfor
exampleforhumanre-sequencingdataandother genome-scale analyses.
Marine research
Collaborating organisations
©Trym Ivar Bergsmo / Samfoto / NTBScanpix
ELIXIR node proposals

19. Quality control
Service delivery plan
19
Node proposals
ELIXIR Technical
Strategy Metrics
Monitoring
Service delivery plan
Core resources Named services
Life cycle
Collaboration
agreements