ELIXIR Finland

The ELIXIR Node in Finland is hosted at CSC - IT Center for Science. Node provides cloud and storage resource and training for life sciences, with integrated computational access to very large biological data resources. 

Examples of life science use cases support by ELIXIR Finland : http://www.elixir-finland.org/en/publications-and-reports/

All CSC services: http://research.csc.fi

Services are targeted towards biomedical organisations and evolved with the development of the European e-Infrastructure (GÉANT for research network, EuroHPC/PRACE for computing and EOSC for data).

Node provides flexible infrastructure for bioinformatics data analysis and service providers and can be used to host tools and build topical data services and software environments. It provides support to national nodes of the biomedical ESFRIs (eg. BBMRI, EATRIS, Euro-Bioimaging), for instance through a secure virtualised platform for sensitive Finnish biobank data.

The Finnish biomedical data resources are collections and registries from the Finnish population that are being organised and digitised by the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM) and the National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) and will become available via Findata.fi. National biomedical data interoperation and interpretation with the reference data of ELIXIR provides a use case for molecular level genetic diagnostics of, for example, heart diseases, cancer and diabetes. 

Legal, ethical and privacy requirements for enabling research on biomedical data require solutions for researcher authentication and authorisation. ELIXIR Finland and ELIXIR Czech Republic are commissioned by ELIXIR to operate ELIXIR Authentication and Authorisation Infrastructure. REMS service by the Finnish ELIXIR site is a unique tool of the ELIXIR AAI that enables coordination of resource access rights in collaboration between the data service providers and data access granting bodies.

CSC - IT Center for Science has the Biomedinfra.fi consortium agreement with the Finnish Institute for Molecular Medicine FIMM and National Institute for Health and Welfare THL. Consortium provides opportunities to build reference genetic data resources and analyse large human genome sequence variation for translational medical research.

CSC offers versatile and high-quality training in scientific computing, data management, and information networks - from cutting-edge technologies to widely used methods and practical IT skills.

The hardware is hosted by CSC and connected via Finnish research and university network (Funet).