European Life Sciences Infrastructure for Biological
Information
www.elixir-europe.org
ELIXIR-UK
Carole Goble and Neil Hall
Heads of Node
ELIXIR-UK Node: a Network of 18 Organisations
Legal signatory
Node Coordination Office
Head of Node
Head of Node
Cardiff University, Earlham Institute, Edinburgh Genomics, Heriot
Watt University, Imperial College London, Newcastle University,
Rothamsted Research, The University of Birmingham, The University
of Liverpool, The University of Manchester, The University of
Nottingham, University of Bradford, University College London,
University of Cambridge, University of Dundee, University of
Edinburgh, University of Leicester, University of Oxford
Nœud ELIXIR-UK: un réseau de 18 organisations
ELIXIR UK Node
Established in 2013 with starter grant (2014-
2017) focused on networking and training
• Training Coordinators
• TeSS Training Portal
• The Carpentries
Expansion in 2016 to full range of Node
activities
• Reflecting the services, activities,
platforms and communities engaged in
Coordination office funded (2017-2020)
• Node Coordinator
• Communications and Networking funds
Neil Hall
Head of Node
Earlham Institute
Carole Goble
Head of Node
Manchester
Nicola Soranzo
TechCoordinator
Earlham Institute
Gabriella Rustici
TrainingCoordinator
Cambridge
Catherine Hunter
Node Coordinator,
Earlham Institute
ELIXIR UK Node
Neil Hall
Head of Node
Earlham Institute
Carole Goble
Head of Node
Manchester
Nicola Soranzo
TechCoordinator
Earlham Institute
Gabriella Rustici
TrainingCoordinator
Cambridge
Catherine Hunter
Node Coordinator,
Earlham Institute
Node
Funding
ELIXIR funds
Impl studies,
platform funding,
staff exchange
EU ELIXIR Awards
Competitively won
Investigator won
services and
activities
Node-Node
collaborations
In kind
The UK doesn’t
currently run
dedicated ESFRI
e-Infrastructure
call
UK funding landscape
• Coordination office funding
£750k (2 posts)
• Communications
• Workshops
• Meetings and Travel
• Administration of Elixir funds
• 15 node –services receiving ~
£6,000,000 from UKRI, EU
Wellcome Trust and NIH.
• No funding direct from node
£
£
Node Services
Meetings
Comms
Workshops
UK funding landscape
• Coordination office funding
£750k (2 posts)
• Communications
• Workshops
• Meetings and Travel
• Administration of Elixir funds
• 15 node –services receiving ~
£6,000,000 from UKRI, EU
Wellcome Trust and NIH.
• No funding direct from node
ELIXIR RELATED EU Projects
PROJECT INSTITUTIONS
EOSC-Pilot University of Manchester
University of Oxford
Heriot Watt University
EOSC-Life University of Manchester
University of Oxford
University of Cambridge
University of Dundee
ELIXIR-Excelerate University of Manchester
University of Oxford
University of Cambridge
University of Edinburgh
Heriot Watt University
Earlham institute
ELIXIR-Converge University of Manchester
University of Cambridge
CORBEL University of Manchester
IMI FAIRplus University of Manchester
University of Oxford
Heriot Watt University
EJP-RD University of Manchester
University of Cambridge
EOSC-Enhance University of Manchester
ELIXIR and the UK Landscape
The vatican
£8.7 Bn
Funding
£1 Bn
£0.6 Bn
24
research
intensive
universities
Policy Wrangling
Revisions to the OECD
Recommendation of the Council
concerning Access to Research
Data from Public Funding
UK e-Infrastructure for Life Science Landscape
Biological sciences, health and food themes
“Significant expansion of the UK node
of ELIXIR to support BioFAIR, a data
sustainability institute supporting the
coordination and development of UK
life science data”
ELIXIR-UK Serves
Membership ELIXIR UK
BioFAIR
a data sustainability
institute supporting
the coordination and
development of UK
life science data
BioFAIR Digital Object
Commons for UK Life
Science.
Mobilising and
coordinating UK life
science data
infrastructure
community
Accessing funding
and engagement
opportunities by UK
members
Developing ELIXIR
Communities
Executing the
Strategic Plan
Services SDPs
Platforms
Communities
Portals
Activities
EU Projects
Node-Node
cooperations
A Network
• Helping our members run and
participate in meetings
• Sponsoring meetings
• 2020 UK Bioinformatics
Conference to coincide with
UK All Hands
ELIXIRAll Hands 2018, Berlin
Biohackathon, November 2018, near Paris
ELIXIR UK All Hands, 2018, Birmingham
Dagstuhl Seminar FAIR e-
Infrastructures Nov 2018
4
Platforms
15
Services with
SDPs
2/3
ELIXIR
Portals
7Communities
2
ExCo
3
EIP RIRs
1/6
CDRs not
EBI/SIB
2
Leader
ship
18
organisations
16+1
Implementation
Studies
8
ELIXIR
EU project
awards 7
WP
leaderships
In numbers
9
In review
2
Platform
funding
2
WGs
Focus A lot of Node
co-operations
EBI are of course
strong partners
• Communities
• Services
• Interoperability
• FAIRification
• Markup
• Workflows
Focus
Training
Interoperability
Data Management
Structural
Bioinformatics
Model Organisms
Systems Biology
Animal Health
Microbial
Biotechnology
Metabolomics
Plant Sciences
Tools
Communities
Highlight: 3DBioinfo
To develop the infrastructure for FAIR
structural and functional annotations
To create open resources for sharing,
integrating and benchmarking software
tools for modelling the proteome in 3D
To develop tools to Describe, Analyse,
Annotate, and Predict Nucleic Acid
Structures
To help develop models for protein-ligand
interactions
3DBioInfo Launch, Basel, 2018Christine Orengo, UCL
Increasing Interoperability between
ELIXIR Protein Structure and Sequence
Resources and Expanding these
Resources with 3D-Models of CATH
Domains, built by SWISS-MODEL
CATH protein structure
classification Core Data
Resource,
Jalview multiple sequence
alignment editing,
visualisation and analysis
tool
PHYRE2 protein structure
prediction
Co-led Commissioned Service:
The ELIXIR Node Services
UK developed Service Best Practice. 9 new services in review.
https://f1000research.com/articles/5-2894/v2
Dundee Resource for
SequenceAnalysis and
Structure Prediction
CDR
RIR
Portal
PHI-base http://www.phi-base.org/
Expertly curated molecular and biological information on genes proven to affect the outcome
of pathogen-host interactions.
Highlight: The TeSS Training Portal https://tess.elixir-europe.org
ELIXIR training portal to aggregate events and training materials
77%
increase in
users
2018-2019
75
content
providers
284
Upcoming
events
10657
past
1328
materials
1K
users /
month
50:50
manual/auto
Born native of ELIXIR
The TeSS Training Portal in a Nutshell
automatically aggregate
training resources
link to registries
content embedded with widgets
in 3rd party sites
curation tools
Organising and Navigating Content
Concept Maps and Learning Paths
Experiments Funded
by Commissioned
services
Concept maps
Learning outcome templates
Generate learning paths
Relate to Service Bundles
Community Contributions for Content and Code,
and Wider uptake -> from start-up to maturity
Open Development
Framework
Metadata
processors
Scraper
development
Curation
Contributions
Embedded
widgets
Scale Contribution
Modularise, Packaging, Governance
Other communities. Around topics, communities,
organisations, geographical. CZI, EJP-RD, HDR-UK, ARDC, EOSC.
TeSS needs to be packaged, marketed, and supported properly
Content
User UX
Added value
TeSS, the UK Node and the ELIXIR Platform
a native ELIXIR infrastructure service
Changes in UK leadership
• Manchester -> Cambridge
Resources challenge
• 1.5 FTE dedicated development in
one organisation (4 people needed)
• Over dependence on Niall
• Lack resources to build UK base
National funding challenges
• Seen as an ELIXIR not UK service
• Incorporation into BioFAIR proposal
Resources for content curation
• Affects quality of service
UK Node
ELIXIR
Platform
Excelerate
Impl Studies
2014 2016 2019 2021
A native ELIXIR Infrastructure
Service to be collective
managed by all ELIXIR Nodes
Highlight: Interoperability …. Data, Tools
platform, impl studies and EU grants
FAIRification of data infrastructure
FAIRmetrics, capability models, processes
FAIR Cookbook
Bioschemas
With NL, DE, EBI, LU …
Data FAIRification
Workflows & Software
Workflow Registry
Containerisation, Galaxy
CommonWorkflow Language, GA4GH
Research Objects
FAIR Software Practices
Registries, portability, interoperability
With ES, BE, DE, FR, EBI, NL …
FAIRmetrics
Highlight: Interoperability …. Data, Tools
platform, impl studies and EU grants
FAIRification of data infrastructure
FAIRmetrics, capability models, processes
FAIR Cookbook
Bioschemas
With NL, DE, EBI, LU …
Data FAIRification
Workflows & Software
Workflow Registry
Containerisation, Galaxy
CommonWorkflow Language, GA4GH
Research Objects
FAIR Software Practices
Registries, portability, interoperability
With ES, BE, DE, FR, EBI, NL …
MG-RAST / EBI Mgnify [Rob Finn]
Nature, 02 September 2019
Highlight: Bioschemas
Exploiting schema.org for FAIRer Life Sciences resources
ELIXIR-UK direct the initiative & promote ResearchSchemas
Community initiative
Schema.org specs
Support software
Foster adoption and use
Find, register, index, search
resources
Resource mark up for tools
Metadata movement
between resources
Registry auto curation
Leveraging a de
facto widely
adopted standard
Alasdair Gray, HWU
Bioschemas By Numbers
70
resources
Bioschemas Strategy
mostly funded by ELIXIR Impl Studies, EIP Platform funding,
Excelerate and in kind from EU
Phase 1: Inception & Community Building (2015)
Phase 2: Specs & Provider Markup (2017)
Phase 3: Adoption and Community Users (2019)
ELIXIR Strategic Implementation Study
ELIXIR UK, HU, BE, FR, NL, LU, PT, IT, DE, Hub
Impact
EOSC Pilot,
EOSC Enhance
RDA ResearchSchemas
GO-FAIR Discovery
OpenAIRE ResearchGraph
Community
Not for Profit,
Governance
Rare Diseases
Plant Sciences
Toxicology
Intrinsically
Disordered
Proteins
Highlight: Data Management Capabilities
Common Data Management Toolkits, Node-Node joint enterprises
Community Plant Sciences Genotype-Phenotype
Data Management and Validation Toolkit
FAIR data Analysis
Search engine
Metadata
Access
Serving the UK: BioFAIR
bringing together all our expertise for the UK
differentiated from EMBL-EBI
Federated
Digital Object Commons partnered
with national infrastructure
Integrated data services
and toolkits and training
Data sustainability institute
supporting the coordination
and development of UK life
science data
Data Management services and capability ->
ELIXIR CONVERGE
Serving the UK: BioFAIR
bringing together all our expertise for the UK
differentiated from EMBL-EBI
Recognition now that this is
needed
BBSRC Review of Data
Driven Bioscience
BBSRC Bioscience Big Ideas
Pipeline
UKRI “infrastructure
roadmap”
Brexit - every crisis is an
opportunity …
ELIXIR-UK
Navigating a fragmented national
landscape
Outstanding people and track record
Doing a lot on borrowed resources
Significant contributions to ELIXIR
And EOSC
Node-Node co-operations
BioFAIR
a data sustainability
institute supporting
the coordination and
development of UK
life science data
BioFAIR Digital Object
Commons for UK Life
Science.
ELIXIR UK Node presentation to the ELIXIR Board

ELIXIR UK Node presentation to the ELIXIR Board

  • 1.
    European Life SciencesInfrastructure for Biological Information www.elixir-europe.org ELIXIR-UK Carole Goble and Neil Hall Heads of Node
  • 2.
    ELIXIR-UK Node: aNetwork of 18 Organisations Legal signatory Node Coordination Office Head of Node Head of Node Cardiff University, Earlham Institute, Edinburgh Genomics, Heriot Watt University, Imperial College London, Newcastle University, Rothamsted Research, The University of Birmingham, The University of Liverpool, The University of Manchester, The University of Nottingham, University of Bradford, University College London, University of Cambridge, University of Dundee, University of Edinburgh, University of Leicester, University of Oxford Nœud ELIXIR-UK: un réseau de 18 organisations
  • 3.
    ELIXIR UK Node Establishedin 2013 with starter grant (2014- 2017) focused on networking and training • Training Coordinators • TeSS Training Portal • The Carpentries Expansion in 2016 to full range of Node activities • Reflecting the services, activities, platforms and communities engaged in Coordination office funded (2017-2020) • Node Coordinator • Communications and Networking funds Neil Hall Head of Node Earlham Institute Carole Goble Head of Node Manchester Nicola Soranzo TechCoordinator Earlham Institute Gabriella Rustici TrainingCoordinator Cambridge Catherine Hunter Node Coordinator, Earlham Institute
  • 4.
    ELIXIR UK Node NeilHall Head of Node Earlham Institute Carole Goble Head of Node Manchester Nicola Soranzo TechCoordinator Earlham Institute Gabriella Rustici TrainingCoordinator Cambridge Catherine Hunter Node Coordinator, Earlham Institute Node Funding ELIXIR funds Impl studies, platform funding, staff exchange EU ELIXIR Awards Competitively won Investigator won services and activities Node-Node collaborations In kind The UK doesn’t currently run dedicated ESFRI e-Infrastructure call
  • 5.
    UK funding landscape •Coordination office funding £750k (2 posts) • Communications • Workshops • Meetings and Travel • Administration of Elixir funds • 15 node –services receiving ~ £6,000,000 from UKRI, EU Wellcome Trust and NIH. • No funding direct from node £ £ Node Services Meetings Comms Workshops
  • 6.
    UK funding landscape •Coordination office funding £750k (2 posts) • Communications • Workshops • Meetings and Travel • Administration of Elixir funds • 15 node –services receiving ~ £6,000,000 from UKRI, EU Wellcome Trust and NIH. • No funding direct from node
  • 7.
    ELIXIR RELATED EUProjects PROJECT INSTITUTIONS EOSC-Pilot University of Manchester University of Oxford Heriot Watt University EOSC-Life University of Manchester University of Oxford University of Cambridge University of Dundee ELIXIR-Excelerate University of Manchester University of Oxford University of Cambridge University of Edinburgh Heriot Watt University Earlham institute ELIXIR-Converge University of Manchester University of Cambridge CORBEL University of Manchester IMI FAIRplus University of Manchester University of Oxford Heriot Watt University EJP-RD University of Manchester University of Cambridge EOSC-Enhance University of Manchester
  • 8.
    ELIXIR and theUK Landscape The vatican £8.7 Bn Funding £1 Bn £0.6 Bn 24 research intensive universities
  • 9.
    Policy Wrangling Revisions tothe OECD Recommendation of the Council concerning Access to Research Data from Public Funding
  • 10.
    UK e-Infrastructure forLife Science Landscape Biological sciences, health and food themes “Significant expansion of the UK node of ELIXIR to support BioFAIR, a data sustainability institute supporting the coordination and development of UK life science data”
  • 11.
    ELIXIR-UK Serves Membership ELIXIRUK BioFAIR a data sustainability institute supporting the coordination and development of UK life science data BioFAIR Digital Object Commons for UK Life Science. Mobilising and coordinating UK life science data infrastructure community Accessing funding and engagement opportunities by UK members Developing ELIXIR Communities Executing the Strategic Plan Services SDPs Platforms Communities Portals Activities EU Projects Node-Node cooperations
  • 12.
    A Network • Helpingour members run and participate in meetings • Sponsoring meetings • 2020 UK Bioinformatics Conference to coincide with UK All Hands ELIXIRAll Hands 2018, Berlin Biohackathon, November 2018, near Paris ELIXIR UK All Hands, 2018, Birmingham Dagstuhl Seminar FAIR e- Infrastructures Nov 2018
  • 13.
    4 Platforms 15 Services with SDPs 2/3 ELIXIR Portals 7Communities 2 ExCo 3 EIP RIRs 1/6 CDRsnot EBI/SIB 2 Leader ship 18 organisations 16+1 Implementation Studies 8 ELIXIR EU project awards 7 WP leaderships In numbers 9 In review 2 Platform funding 2 WGs
  • 14.
    Focus A lotof Node co-operations EBI are of course strong partners • Communities • Services • Interoperability • FAIRification • Markup • Workflows
  • 15.
    Focus Training Interoperability Data Management Structural Bioinformatics Model Organisms SystemsBiology Animal Health Microbial Biotechnology Metabolomics Plant Sciences Tools
  • 16.
  • 17.
    Highlight: 3DBioinfo To developthe infrastructure for FAIR structural and functional annotations To create open resources for sharing, integrating and benchmarking software tools for modelling the proteome in 3D To develop tools to Describe, Analyse, Annotate, and Predict Nucleic Acid Structures To help develop models for protein-ligand interactions 3DBioInfo Launch, Basel, 2018Christine Orengo, UCL Increasing Interoperability between ELIXIR Protein Structure and Sequence Resources and Expanding these Resources with 3D-Models of CATH Domains, built by SWISS-MODEL CATH protein structure classification Core Data Resource, Jalview multiple sequence alignment editing, visualisation and analysis tool PHYRE2 protein structure prediction Co-led Commissioned Service:
  • 18.
    The ELIXIR NodeServices UK developed Service Best Practice. 9 new services in review. https://f1000research.com/articles/5-2894/v2 Dundee Resource for SequenceAnalysis and Structure Prediction CDR RIR Portal
  • 19.
    PHI-base http://www.phi-base.org/ Expertly curatedmolecular and biological information on genes proven to affect the outcome of pathogen-host interactions.
  • 20.
    Highlight: The TeSSTraining Portal https://tess.elixir-europe.org ELIXIR training portal to aggregate events and training materials 77% increase in users 2018-2019 75 content providers 284 Upcoming events 10657 past 1328 materials 1K users / month 50:50 manual/auto Born native of ELIXIR
  • 21.
    The TeSS TrainingPortal in a Nutshell automatically aggregate training resources link to registries content embedded with widgets in 3rd party sites curation tools
  • 22.
    Organising and NavigatingContent Concept Maps and Learning Paths Experiments Funded by Commissioned services Concept maps Learning outcome templates Generate learning paths Relate to Service Bundles
  • 23.
    Community Contributions forContent and Code, and Wider uptake -> from start-up to maturity Open Development Framework Metadata processors Scraper development Curation Contributions Embedded widgets Scale Contribution Modularise, Packaging, Governance Other communities. Around topics, communities, organisations, geographical. CZI, EJP-RD, HDR-UK, ARDC, EOSC. TeSS needs to be packaged, marketed, and supported properly Content User UX Added value
  • 24.
    TeSS, the UKNode and the ELIXIR Platform a native ELIXIR infrastructure service Changes in UK leadership • Manchester -> Cambridge Resources challenge • 1.5 FTE dedicated development in one organisation (4 people needed) • Over dependence on Niall • Lack resources to build UK base National funding challenges • Seen as an ELIXIR not UK service • Incorporation into BioFAIR proposal Resources for content curation • Affects quality of service UK Node ELIXIR Platform Excelerate Impl Studies 2014 2016 2019 2021 A native ELIXIR Infrastructure Service to be collective managed by all ELIXIR Nodes
  • 25.
    Highlight: Interoperability ….Data, Tools platform, impl studies and EU grants FAIRification of data infrastructure FAIRmetrics, capability models, processes FAIR Cookbook Bioschemas With NL, DE, EBI, LU … Data FAIRification Workflows & Software Workflow Registry Containerisation, Galaxy CommonWorkflow Language, GA4GH Research Objects FAIR Software Practices Registries, portability, interoperability With ES, BE, DE, FR, EBI, NL … FAIRmetrics
  • 26.
    Highlight: Interoperability ….Data, Tools platform, impl studies and EU grants FAIRification of data infrastructure FAIRmetrics, capability models, processes FAIR Cookbook Bioschemas With NL, DE, EBI, LU … Data FAIRification Workflows & Software Workflow Registry Containerisation, Galaxy CommonWorkflow Language, GA4GH Research Objects FAIR Software Practices Registries, portability, interoperability With ES, BE, DE, FR, EBI, NL …
  • 27.
    MG-RAST / EBIMgnify [Rob Finn] Nature, 02 September 2019
  • 28.
    Highlight: Bioschemas Exploiting schema.orgfor FAIRer Life Sciences resources ELIXIR-UK direct the initiative & promote ResearchSchemas Community initiative Schema.org specs Support software Foster adoption and use Find, register, index, search resources Resource mark up for tools Metadata movement between resources Registry auto curation Leveraging a de facto widely adopted standard Alasdair Gray, HWU
  • 29.
  • 30.
    Bioschemas Strategy mostly fundedby ELIXIR Impl Studies, EIP Platform funding, Excelerate and in kind from EU Phase 1: Inception & Community Building (2015) Phase 2: Specs & Provider Markup (2017) Phase 3: Adoption and Community Users (2019) ELIXIR Strategic Implementation Study ELIXIR UK, HU, BE, FR, NL, LU, PT, IT, DE, Hub Impact EOSC Pilot, EOSC Enhance RDA ResearchSchemas GO-FAIR Discovery OpenAIRE ResearchGraph Community Not for Profit, Governance Rare Diseases Plant Sciences Toxicology Intrinsically Disordered Proteins
  • 31.
    Highlight: Data ManagementCapabilities Common Data Management Toolkits, Node-Node joint enterprises
  • 32.
    Community Plant SciencesGenotype-Phenotype Data Management and Validation Toolkit FAIR data Analysis Search engine Metadata Access
  • 33.
    Serving the UK:BioFAIR bringing together all our expertise for the UK differentiated from EMBL-EBI Federated Digital Object Commons partnered with national infrastructure Integrated data services and toolkits and training Data sustainability institute supporting the coordination and development of UK life science data Data Management services and capability -> ELIXIR CONVERGE
  • 34.
    Serving the UK:BioFAIR bringing together all our expertise for the UK differentiated from EMBL-EBI Recognition now that this is needed BBSRC Review of Data Driven Bioscience BBSRC Bioscience Big Ideas Pipeline UKRI “infrastructure roadmap” Brexit - every crisis is an opportunity …
  • 35.
    ELIXIR-UK Navigating a fragmentednational landscape Outstanding people and track record Doing a lot on borrowed resources Significant contributions to ELIXIR And EOSC Node-Node co-operations BioFAIR a data sustainability institute supporting the coordination and development of UK life science data BioFAIR Digital Object Commons for UK Life Science.

Editor's Notes

  • #11 EMBL-EBI is the features case study
  • #18 UK’s Genome3D group a pillar of the community
  • #19 What is the benefit to the members?
  • #26 Workflows, software
  • #27 Workflows, software