Introduction to the second day & overview of ELIXIR Industry Stakeholders report

1. Introduction to the second day & overview of ELIXIR Industry Stakeholders report Dominic Clark, Industry Programme Manager, clark@ebi.ac.uk. http://www.ebi.ac.uk/industry

2. ELIXIR – European life sciences infrastructure for biological information To build a sustainable European infrastructure for biological information supporting life science research and its translation to: • medicine, • the environment, • the bioindustries, and • society 32 participants in 13 countries

3. Industry/Commercial/SME (61) Academic/Non-profit (516) Response frequency = % of answering respondents (i.e. 577) Sector of your organization

4. Response frequency = % of answering respondents (i.e. 60) Select your country of location India - USA

5. Response frequency = % of answering respondents (as indicated for each sector category) . Total number of answering respondents considered for this cross analysis was564. Importance of long-term sustainability of European bioinformatics infrastructures according to sector

6. Multiple answer options – Response frequency = % of answering respondents (i.e. 60) We use bioinformatics databases in order to

7. Multiple answer options – Response frequency = % of answering respondents (i.e. 59) My group is most interested in the following biological data

8. Important Essential Useful Multiple answer options - Answering respondents = 619 Important databases according to sector

9. Multiple answer options were authorized. Response frequency = % of answering respondents (i.e. 46). What database developments are needed in the future?

10. Not relevant Important Essential Tool resources (response count) - Answering respondents = 61 How important would the following be for your group?

11. Where there was a difference

12. Position Statement • A pan European informatics infrastructure and associated services are considered essential to support the European knowledge economy. This will not be achieved efficiently if such infrastructure were to be based on uncoordinated and disconnected national infrastructure efforts. This pan-European infrastructure should be attained through a well managed and maintained, service oriented, scalable, consumer focused delivery framework. It is essential for Elixir to deliver on these goals, requiring the adoption of a service culture by this project, to ensure a sustained return on investment to both academic and industrial experimental research in the EU.

13. ELIXIR Industry Stakeholders’ recommendations • Develop robust and scalable life science service infrastructure of enterprise quality, supported by transparent service level agreements defining outages, updates, performance, access levels and user training & support (etc). • Deliver infrastructure to comprise of ‘service components’ that include data, APIs, GUIs, search & analysis tools and training delivered to agreed process, syntactic and semantic standards. • Uphold the principle of unrestricted, open access to data and supported core analysis tools via web interface, programmatic and download methods. Together with industry stakeholders, Elixir should explore sustainable business models for open access to all Elixir services for all consumers.

15. SME Meeting Agenda 4rd September 2009

17. 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.