This document provides an overview of the Science Gateways Community Institute (SGCI) for campuses. It summarizes SGCI's services which include extended developer support, an incubator program, a scientific software collaborative, community engagement and exchange programs, and workforce development initiatives. The goal of SGCI is to help create new science gateways and help existing ones expand capabilities through expertise, resources, and community building efforts.

1. Award Number
ACI-1547611
Marlon Pierce
Indiana University
marpierc@iu.edu
Science Gateways Community
Institute: an Overview for
Campuses

2. My Quick Bio
• Lead for the SGCI’s Extended Developer
Support component
• Project manager for XSEDE’s science gateways
program
• PI of the Science Gateways Platform as a
service (SciGaP.org) project
• NSF SI2
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3. About You
Please give me some background on your
interest in Science Gateways.
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4. 4
It’s a
Science
Gateway
It’s a
Research
Portal
It’s a
Collaboratory
It’s a
Cyber-
infrastructure
It’s
a Virtual
Research
Environment
It’s a
Virtual
Lab

5. A Gateway Parade
Types of Science Gateways

6. dREG: discriminative Regulatory Element
detection from GRO-seq
• Prof. Charles Danko and Dr.
Zhong Wang, Cornell
• dREG: Identification of the
genomic regions that regulate
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• Genetic basis of many diseases
• Code is actively developed
• Users may not have local
resources for running it.
• CPU and GPU versions
How do you deliver scientific software in 2017?

7. dREG: Software as a Service
Instead of requiring users to download and
install the code, they deliver it through a
gateway.
And
integrate
third party
Web tools

8. ChemCompute.org: Educational Gateway
•Prof. Mark Perri, PI
•Goal: Help students
use computational
chemistry tools
•Provide custom user
interfaces tailored to
students
•Use campus resources,
XSEDE to provide
backend power.

9. University of South Dakota Campus Gateway
• Doug Jennewein, PI
• Provide simplified, web-based access
to campus computing resources, well-
known scientific applications
• Use campus identities all the way
through (no community accounts)
• Simplify bridging between campus
resources and XSEDE.

10. 10Enable sharing, community building, collaboration, and more

11. COSMIC^2
Michael Cianfrocco, new assistant professor at
U Michigan’s Life Sciences Institute
• Fast-growing field of structural biology, recent
advances in electron microscopes
• Users with significant analysis needs, but unfamiliar
with computing environments
• Cryo-EM will soon become ubiquitous, gateway
removes obstacles to using supercomputers
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12. Science Gateways ...
• Are Web interfaces and middleware to support
scientific research
• Simplify access to complicated scientific
applications, data, computing, storage, etc.
• Support reproducibilty
• Enabled sharing and collaboration

13. Science Gateways Survey 2014
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34% 36%
20%
17%
31%
26%
42%
16%
30%
18%
45% 44%
14% 15%
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
35%
40%
45%
50%
Usability
Consultant
Graphic
Designer
Community
Liaison/
Evangelist
Project
Manager
Professional
Software
Developer
Security
Expert
Quality
Assurance
and Testing
Expert
Wished we had this
Yes, we had this
Well-designed gateways require a variety of expertise

14. The Science Gateway Community
Institute
• Provides resources and services to
• Help create new gateways
• Help existing gateways add new capabilities
• Help all gateways become more sustainable
• Help gateway developers find software
• Help...
• The SGCI provides services to augment your
gateway team with experts you may not have on
staff
• SGCI services are free to you.
• NSF funds us to provide services

15. SGCI and You, Mizzou
• We work with academic communities of all types
• Campus CI groups are particularly important
potential collaborators
• You may have your own needs
• Jennewein
• You can help identify faculty who want to provide
gateways
• Danko, Perri
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16. How are we doing this?
Designed to help the community build gateways more effectively
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Diverse expertise
on demand
Longer-term,
hands-on support
Student
opportunities &
educator resources
Sharing
experiences &
knowledge as a
community
Software & visibility
for gateways

17. Incubator
Expertise for the gateway lifecycle
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Need specialized expertise on a part-term basis?
Want to learn gateway-building, from start to finish?
Project Management
Sustainability Planning
• Nancy Maron, creator of the ITHAKA S+R
course on Sustaining Digital Resources
Business & Strategic Planning
• The Purdue Foundry, national award-
winning entrepreneurship program
Security
• Center for Trustworthy Scientific
Cyberinfrastructure
Impact Measurement & Evaluation
• Ann Zimmerman Consulting
Community Engagement
Development Tools & Processes
Technology Planning, Open-Source Licensing &
Selection
• Indiana University Science Gateways Research
Center, initiators of Apache Airavata
Graphic & User-Interface Design
Usability
• University of Michigan & Purdue University User
Experience Programs
Creating Institutional Resources
• Notre Dame’s Center for Research Computing
• HUBzero® group at Purdue

18. Incubator current activities
• Bootcamp 1
• April 24–28, 2017
• Purdue Research Park, Indianapolis
• Accepted 10 projects to participate as a cohort
• Bootcamp 2
• October 2-6, 2017
• Purdue Research Park, Indianapolis
• Accepted 10 projects to participate as a cohort
• Consulting Engagement Requests
• http://sciencegateways.org/request-services
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19. Need to build your gateway beyond your team’s capacity?
How We Benefit Our Clients
• Provide 25% effort for up to a year from an
experienced gateway developer.
• Help create new gateways
• Help expand capabilities of existing gateways
• Advise on technology selection
• Strengthen team’s software-engineering practices
• Support best DevOps practices
Extended Developer Support
Enhancing gateways through technical help
from experienced gateway developers
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Flexibility
• Technology agnostic
• Gateways using all types of CI
• Services available for 3 to 12 months
• “Burst” support for smaller issues
• Well-defined engagements with work plans
Request EDS services:
sciencegateways.org/
request-services

20. EDS current projects
Consultation Description Discipline Gateway Type/ Content
ChemCompute Helping scale up a chemistry
education gateway.
Chemistry Education
COSMIC^2 Helping extend the SDSC
Workbench framework to support
large Cryo-EM data sets.
Cellular & Molecular
Medicine
Data Analysis
CitSci.org Working with gateway team to
improve efficiency of diverse
queries required by broad range of
citizen science user communities.
Computer
Science/Multiple
Disciplines
Platform for Creating
Citizen Science Projects
USD Cybergateway Developing a campus cluster-
centric gateway with University of
South Dakota.
Computer Science Science Gateway Platform
as a Service (SciGaP)
QUBES Web interface and user experience
design for quantitative biology
education.
Quantitative Biology Education
Aquavit Using modeling and sharing for
water management.
Freshwater Systems Collaboration Portal
ENIGMA Metadata management and sharing
for bipolar disorder experiments.
Neuroscience, Clinical
Psychiatry, and
Genetics
Data sharing
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21. Want to find software
solutions?
Have software to share?
Scientific Software Collaborative
Leveraging & promoting existing
investments in gateway technologies
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Extend Your Audience
• List your gateway or components
• Offer your technology
• Support gateways as SGCI Affiliate
End-to-End Solutions
• Browse existing gateways
• Identify their technologies
• Use for your research or
teaching
• Identify platforms or components and
use what you need
• Assemble & test in our “sandbox”
Science Gateway Catalog:
https://catalog.sciencegateways.org

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Gateway and software listing
Affiliates program for scalable support

23. Eager to share what you know or have created?
Wish you could learn from others’ experience?
Want to grow gateway-building expertise at your institution?
Want to promote research and international exchange?
Community Engagement &
Exchange
Connecting the community through
interaction & professional development
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Ways to Connect
• Learn to create your own campus-based gateway development group
• Share what you know through a guest blog, webinar, case study, or conference
• Become a partner or affiliate
• Submit your research to our joint special issues with international workshops
• Offer us your feedback, input, or requests

24. Community Engagement &
Exchange activities
Volunteer!
• Contribute to a guest blog
• Present at a webinar
• Be featured in a case study
Request a campus-based gateway
development group presentation
Contact help@sciencegateways.org
Participate in annual conference
• Gateways 2017: October 23–25, Ann
Arbor, Michigan
• Posters, presentations, tutorials,
social networking
• Joint special issue journal with
international colleagues
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25. Want to become a gateway builder?
Could you use gateways in your teaching or research?
Interested in supporting career
tracks for gateway developers?
Workforce Development
Nurturing the next generation of
science gateways users and developers
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Young Professionals Network
• SPOTLIGHT featuring young professionals
• Young Professional of the Year Award
includes honorarium
• Networking opportunities through virtual
seminars
• Support for professional editing for your
technical publications
• Volunteer to be a mentor
Summer Programs & Internships
• Graduate & undergraduate students
• Domain-focused & gateway-development
topics
• Work on real gateway projects
• Stipend and housing/transportation support

26. What You Can Do Next
• Attend Gateways 2017
• University of Michigan, October 23-25
• https://sciencegateways.org/web/gateways2017
• Get help on any and all questions:
• help@sciencegateways.org
• Apply for Extended Developer Support or
Incubator services
• https://sciencegateways.org/request-services
• We have a standing customer call Fridays at 3
pm ET
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