Speaker
Klaas Deneudt
(VLIZ)
Description
The European Open Science Cloud has the ambition to provide open and seamless services to analyse and re-use research data. For the marine biology domain such services and supporting data systems have been developed in the framework of several projects over the past five to ten years. LifeWatch marine has taken the initiative to bring these data services together into a Marine Virtual Research Environment (http://marine.lifewatch.eu). The thematic scope of the provided tools and data include biodiversity observation, omics, taxonomy, trait, geographical and environmental reference information. Contributions are based on communities gathered in the framework of LifeWatch, EMBRC, EMODNET biology, EMBRC, AssemblePlus, MarBEF, MicroB3, BioVEL, VIBRANT and other related initiatives. The common framework stimulates further developments towards more advanced and seamless integration of the services and tools. In addition to the available analytical interfaces, the provided open data services allow users to build their own applications on top. REST, SOAP and OGC compliant web services make the data accessible in a standardized way allowing the development of workflows and applications in a range of platforms: PHP web pages, R and Phyton scripts, workflow tools like Taverna, Galaxy, etc. Performance and availability could be further increased by virtual multiplication and load balancing over virtual servers in a cloud environment. Initial steps in that direction have been taken in collaboration with EGI as part of the LifeWatch Competence Center.
| Topic Area | The EOSC & EDI building blocks |
|---|---|
| Type of abstract | Presentation (15 minutes) |
Primary author
Klaas Deneudt
(VLIZ)
Co-authors
Mr
Bart Vanhoorne
(VLIZ-Flanders Marine Institute)
Dr
Christos Arvanitidis
(Hellenic Centre for Marine Research)
Mr
Filip Waumans
(VLIZ-Flanders Marine Institute)
Mr
Francisco Hernandez
(VLIZ-Flanders Marine Institute)
Jesus Marco de Lucas
(CSIC)
Mrs
Leen Vandepitte
(VLIZ-Flanders Marine Institute)
Dr
Matthias Obst
(Department of Marine Sciences, Göteborg University)
Dr
Renzo Kottmann
(Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology)
Mr
Simon Claus
(VLIZ-Flanders Marine Institute)
Mrs
Stefanie Dekeyzer
(VLIZ-Flanders Marine Institute)
