3 rd Annual Forum for SMEs: Meeting Overview

1. 3rd Annual Forum for SMEs: Meeting Overview Dominic Clark, Industry Programme Manager, clark@ebi.ac.uk. http://www.ebi.ac.uk/industry

2. EMBL-EBI’s mission • To provide freely available data and bioinformatics services to all facets of the scientific community in ways that promote scientific progress • To contribute to the advancement of biology through basic investigator-driven research in bioinformatics • To provide advanced bioinformatics training to scientists at all levels, from PhD students to independent investigators • To help disseminatecutting-edge technologies to industry

3. What Technologies? • Bioinformatics resources • Literature resources • Cheminformatics resources (ChEBI, CDK) • ChemoGenomics resources (ChEMBL) • Knowledge management technologies and standards • …

4. Databases: molecules to systems Literature and ontologies CiteXplore, GO Genomes Ensembl Ensembl Genomes EGA Protein families, motifs and domains InterPro Nucleotide sequence EMBL-Bank Microarray & gene expression data ArrayExpress Protein structure ePDB Protein interactions IntAct Pathways Reactome Proteomes UniProt, PRIDE Chemical entities ChEBI, ChEMBL Systems BioModels

5. Business Focus Pharmaceuticals/Drug Discovery Biotechnology companies Diagnostics Imaging Agriculture and Agrochemicals Livestock breeding DNA forensics Microbial genomics Bioprocessing The food industry Size Large Multinationals SMEs Industry is a broad term

6. How do we SMEs, generically? • All EMBL-EBI data resources and services are freely available to industry stakeholders in the same way as they are freely available to members of the academic research community. They can be searched, downloaded in their entirety etc. • Furthermore, SMEs may attend all EMBL-EBI training courses on a similar cost basis as academic researchers. For details of the current list of courses, see: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/handson/ • We organise workshops to which SMEs are invited: • NextGen Sequencing (29th October 2009)

7. How else do we support SMEs? • For SMEs, we provide an annual information forum at various locations within Europe. This is customised to the particular interests of SMEs. • 2007: Hinxton, Cambridge, UK. • 2008: Berlin. • 2009: Vienna!

8. SME Information Workshop • The workshop will provide the opportunity to introduce the tools and data resources that are available and the opportunities for SMEs to use and integrate these resources in order to derive benefit from the existing and developing infrastructure. • The topics of the workshop have been specifically selected on the basis of previous interactions with SMEs and include chemogenomics, cheminformatics, proteomics, text mining, literature services and analysis, web services and patent services providing by EMBL-EBI and the European Patent Office, with whom we collaborate.

9. SME Meeting Agenda, 3rd September 2009

10. SME Meeting Agenda 4rd September 2009

11. Acknowledgements • The workshop is sponsored by a number of EU projects coordinated by EMBL-EBI that are targeted to provide bioinformatics tools and data resources for European research. These include: • ENFIN NoE • EMBRACE NoE • CALBC project • SLING project (formally FELICS) • ELIXIR project • We would like to thank everyone involved in the preparation of the agenda (Pascal Kahlem, Nina Sallacz, Stéphane Nauche, Holly Edwards) • We would like to thank all the speakers. • We are grateful to AWS (Nina Sallacz and colleagues) for their support and for hosting the meeting.

12. Thank You Any Questions?