European Life Sciences Infrastructure for Biological Information ELIXIR

2 medicine environment bioindustries society To build a sustainable European infrastructure for biological information, supporting life science research and its translation to: ELIXIR’s mission

A distributed infrastructure to scale with the challenge ELIXIR data infrastructure for Europe’s life science research sector ELIXIR Nodes build local bioinformatics capacity throughout Europe ELIXIR Nodes build on national strengths and priorities 3

How will ELIXIR Hub & ELIXIR Nodes work together? ELIXIR Node Research & Develop Bioinformatics services Deliver Services through own “brands” Management of core resources Develop & Deliver training activities Participation in international data consortia Industry Collaboration and support ELIXIR Mgmt & Secretariat Technical coordination across nodes Drive standards development & implementation Policy and Outreach Lead coordinated infrastructure investments Deliver services ELIXIR Hub

ELIXIR status Elixir Consortium Agreement (ECA) entered into legal force Dec countries signed so far Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland and UK 7 further countries have signed MoU and are working towards signature of ECA: Belgium, Finland, France, Greece, Italy, Slovenia, Spain 5

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ELIXIR: Infrastructure for Life Sciences 7 Services & connectors to drive access and exploitation Integration and interoperability of data and services Sustain core data resources Access, Exchange & Compute on sensitive data Compute Data Standards Tools Training Professional skills for managing and exploiting data Access, Search, Analysis … Integration, Optimization, Privacy, … Storage, Network & Computing Formats, Ontologies, Guidelines, … Scientific & technical

Programme of work 8 Domain specific services Data interoperability, vocabulary and ontology services Tools interoperability and Service Registry Data resources & services Technical Services Management and operations Training Compute Data Standards Tools Training

Target community 9 Research scientistComputational biologistBioinformatician Software developer Service provider Data engineer Trainer Users of infrastructureOperators of infrastructure Postgrad Senior professional

ELIXIR-UK UK node’s initial focus will be exclusively on training The UK node will develop training infrastructure. This approach will include: training needs analysis and organisation of training through cooperating training sectors trainer support workshops development of a pilot training e-support service platform (TeSS) development, management and monitoring of outcomes 10

ELIXIR training objectives 2014–2018 Link to individuals from all other ELIXIR programmes to ensure pan-ELIXIR coherency in the delivery of training related to ELIXIR infrastructures M12; Establish a common approach across ELIXIR to benchmark and evaluate diverse training activities M12 implemented by M24; Establish a coherent and interacting ELIXIR-wide training community M12; Disseminate relevant information via a training portal M24; Identify training gaps and priorities by engaging with industry and other stakeholders M24; Expand high quality training activities, and develop and deliver new training activities, in order to fill identified gaps and meet priorities M36; Synchronise the development of ELIXIR data infrastructures with associated high quality training materials and activities M36; Define core competencies of users and operators of ELIXIR infrastructure and map these competencies to training activities M48; Capture and deliver ELIXIR training activities in Open Education Resources (OER) including videos and interactive training materials M60. 11

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