Conveners
ELIXIR Competence Centre - open meeting
- Kimmo Mattila (CSC)
- Rafael Jimenez (ELIXIR-Europe)
Description
ELIXIR is the European Life Science Infrastructure for Biological Information. ELIXIR work programme will implement the distributed infrastructure based on Hub and Nodes structure during the next four years and comprises Data, Tools, Compute, Training and Interoperability platforms. The ELIXIR EGI Competence center coordinates ELIXIR interactions with the EGI.eu and focuses on the contributions from the EGI to build the ELIXIR Compute Platform.
A vast range of data analysis activities that will be found within the
ELIXIR research community. ELIXIR needs to translate the technical service offering from the European e-Infrastructures for supporting handling of biological data. We have identified four driving scientific use cases for the next four years from e.g. marine metagenomics and genomic and phenotypic data for crop and forest plants. ELIXIR expects that the e-Infrastructures will choose which use cases they commit in the strategies with the aim to achieve scientific advancement in collaboration with ELIXIR.
We expect participation from all three major groups: the scientists in need of better understanding of the opportunities (and limitations) of e-Infrastructure services, e-Infrastructure technical experts that could help to formulate the technical use cases, and the ELIXIR technical service experts building a bridge between the former two groups. They all will benefit from mutual interaction, providing better services one one side and being able to influence which services are available to actually support the Life Science research activities.
We hope to establish the ELIXIR concept of 20+ Technical Use Cases, TUCs, that translate the technical functionalities made available from technical service providers for scientific data service providers.
