ELIXIR Finland (CSC - IT Center for Science) has been chosen by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking as one of seven hosts of next EuroHPC supercomputers and AI Factories. The new funding boosts the potential impact of Compute Platform activities and is recognition of ELIXIR as a European leader in life sciences compute services and expertise.
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Part of the EOSC-Hub project proposal it to establish an ELIXIR Competency Centre (ECC). The EOSC-Hub proposal is currently under review by the EC and a funding decision is expected around late summer 2017 with a tentative project start date of January 2018.
Bioinformatics analysis typically involves a large number of software and reference data, making the installation process a time-consuming task. This problem is aggravated in a course setting, where every participant needs to have an identical installation, sufficient hardware to run it, and, ideally, access to an identical set-up after the course.
The implementation study project plan of ELIXIR Italy consists of six activities that aim to boost the cooperation with existing ELIXIR activities and are expected to deepen the interaction between ELIXIR-IIB, the Joint Research Unit embodying the Italian Node, and ELIXIR. The partners involved have already established contacts with other ELIXIR Nodes and the relevant ELIXIR Platforms and Services in order to ensure an advantageous outcome for all the involved parties.
This project will increase interoperability between four ELIXIR resources (CATH, SWISS-MODEL, InterPro and PDBe), three of which are Core Resources, by building APIs that facilitate the import and export of data between them.
This study follows on from a number of earlier activities that has established the ELIXIR Beacon Project.
During 2019-21 the main aims are to:
This implementation study is designed to
This Study will build on recent developments across the RD community by aligning and securely interconnecting existing international infrastructures (RD-Connect, European Genome-phenome Archive (EGA), and tranSMART) with the general ELIXIR infrastructure. Tasks will develop upon services provided by ELIXIR Nodes and international standards such as those from the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH).
This study will build on recent work with Software containers which, as a key element in the frame of Open Science, Open Data & Open Source, is strongly supported and advocated by ELIXIR. Software containers are transversal to most of the strategic lines of the ELIXIR Tools platform for the 2019 - 2023 Scientific programme.
There will be three Work Packages: