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Elixir Nodes Call: Overview of the Process

Elixir Nodes Call: Overview of the Process. Presented at ELIXIR Funders Meeting Hinxton, October 2010 Andrew Lyall ELIXIR Project Manager www.elixir-europe.org @emblebi. ELIXIR preparatory phase. 1. Mobilisation and planning , November 2007.

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Elixir Nodes Call: Overview of the Process

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  1. Elixir Nodes Call: Overview of the Process Presented at ELIXIR Funders Meeting Hinxton, October 2010 Andrew Lyall ELIXIR Project Manager www.elixir-europe.org @emblebi

  2. ELIXIR preparatory phase 1. Mobilisation and planning, November 2007. 2. Committee and recommendations phase (lasting 18 months), Jan 2008 Hold stakeholder meetings Establish working committees to write reports Present the reports at an open stakeholders meeting for wider discussion Define ELIXIR 3. Documentation and negotiation phase (lasting 18 months). July 2009 Consolidate reports into a proposal to be sent to all the member states and funding agencies with a draft Memorandum of Understanding by month 26. Define how or which parts will be funded by whom Reach agreement after 38 months, so that “construction” can start

  3. What might Elixir be? • A reliable distributed infrastructure to provide equality of access to biological information across all of Europe • Sustainable funding for the core European biological data collections (genomes, sequences, structures etc) • Sustainable funding for the global biological data collaborations (UniProt, ww-PDB, INSDC etc) • Processes for developing new core data collections supporting interoperability of bioinformatics tools developing bioinformatics standards and ontologies • Enhanced use of biological information in Academic Research, the Pharmaceutical Industry, Biotechnology, Agriculture and for the Protection of the Environment

  4. Visits during consultation phase. 4

  5. Sites of ELIXIR survey data providers 5

  6. A Reliable Distributed Infrastructure • Elixir will be constructed by enhancing and linking existing infrastructures in the member states. • It will integrate member state infrastructures into a single infrastructure or a ‘Grid’. • Each member-state will • Identify and catalogue its requirements • Identify funding agencies that are prepared to fund bioinformatics • Identify projects and organisations that could become part of Elixir • Include funding for Elixir in its National Research Infrastructure Plan • Where appropriate, identify structural funds that can be used for Elixir • Make suggestions for ELIXIR Nodes • Take part in the ELIXIR Construction Phase

  7. Summary of ELIXIR Components. • Biomolecular and related data collections • Computational resources • Standards and ontology development • Training infrastructure • Tools and services integration infrastructure

  8. ELIXIR Scientific & Technical Structure 8

  9. Construction Phase • Request for suggestions for nodes • Application form and guidelines on web site • One page advertisement in Nature • Funders meeting planned for fall • Applied for one year extension to Preparatory Phase

  10. Locations of suggestions for Nodes. • Medical • Agriculture • Environmental • Pharmaceutical • General • Training 53 Suggestions 23 Countries

  11. Role of ELIXIR steering committee • Read proposals • Prepared recommendations for Node PIs • Propose a mechanism for the construction process • Met on the 22nd and 23rd July 2010 to do this and to discuss the suggestions as a group • In general they were impressed with the quality of the suggestions and the effort that had gone into them. • They made generic observations about them. • These were made into a document and send to the Node PIs

  12. The proposals have not been reviewed • No attempt was made to review the scientific or technical aspects of the proposals • No specific comments were made about any particular proposal • Funding agencies have their own processes and procedures for reviewing proposals • Proposals will have to fit the strategic priorities of their state funding agencies as well as meeting the ELIXIR criteria

  13. Observations from Steering Committee • National Contact Points • ELIXIR Topology • Virtual nodes • Small nodes • Training • Infrastructure provision at the European Level • Tools infrastructure • Enhancing current activities The were fed back to the Node Principal Investigators.

  14. Other tasks for the construction phase • Clustering ESFRI BMS RI • Mediating interactions between ESFRI BMS RI & e-Infrastructures • Providing services and tools for new communities (eg Plant Sciences, Environmental,...) • Maybe others too…

  15. Thank you for your attention

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