Engagement meeting

• Welcome!

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• Put intermediate questions into the chat
• Discussion at the end of the call

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• Presentation part will be recorded (and recording later available via YouTube channel)
• All things linked from the ELIXIR TeSS AAI page

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ELIXIR AAI Engagement Call IX.

Infrastructures in LS Login & LS Login usage

Dominik F. Bucik (ELIXIR-CZ)

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European Life Sciences Infrastructure for Biological Information

www.elixir-europe.org

European Life Sciences Infrastructure for Biological Information

www.elixir-europe.org

Life Science Login | LS AAI

• Bootstrapped in 2022, EOSC-Life project
• Common authentication and authorization gateway for LS services
• ELIXIR, BBMRI-ERIC, Euro-BioImaging, Instruct-ERIC, EJP-RD, EUCAIM, GDI, CanSERV, Bigpicture, …
• Superseded ELIXIR AAI in 2022
• migration at the launch-time
• BBMRI-ERIC migrated in 2023
• Goals
• Single LS ID across life sciences cluster
• ~18k users, ~230 prod. services
• Authentication via home organization
• alternatively social IdPs, IdP of last resort
• Authorization frameworks, authorization data
• Identity management
• https://lifescience-ri.eu/ls-login/

BBMRI-ERIC

• https://bbmri-eric.eu/
• BBMRI-ERIC is a European research infrastructure for biobanking.
• Bring together all the main players from the biobanking field – researchers, biobankers, industry, and patients – to boost biomedical research.
• Offers quality management services, support with ethical, legal and societal issues, and a number of online tools and software solutions.

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• Previously BBMRI-ERIC AAI
• Key infrastructure services
• Merged into LS Login in May 2023

BBMRI-ERIC & LS Login

• Authentication gateway into services
• Negotiator, Directory, Sample Locator, Finder, Helpdesk
• UX, UI requirements - seamless transition between services
• Role management
• e.g., managing helpdesk “queues”
• Negotiator roles
• Authorization
• basic access
• policy approvals
• AAI engine provisioning
• Future
• GA4GH Passports
• eID

GDI

• https://gdi.onemilliongenomes.eu/
• The Genomic Data Infrastructure (GDI) project is enabling access to genomic and related phenotypic and clinical data across Europe.
• Establishing a federated, sustainable and secure infrastructure to access the data.
• Builds on the outputs of the Beyond 1 Million Genomes (B1MG) project and is realising the ambition of the 1+Million Genomes (1+MG) initiative.

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• Covers 5 functionalities

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• Started in November 2022

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GDI & LS Login

• Starter-kit
• reference implementation of what nodes need to deploy
• AAI one of the product (centrally deployed)
• + providing supporting tools for infrastructure deployment
• AAI for the whole infrastructure
• authentication
• integration with other AAIs (national, …)
• GA4GH Passport support
• Various per-node / per-provider integrations
• FI (CSC), NL (Health-RI)
• People outside of academia
• certificates, licenses, …
• login methods
• Strongly vetted identity requirements

Bigpicture

• https://bigpicture.eu/
• Will accelerate the development of AI in pathology by providing a large repository of high-quality annotated pathology data, accessible in a responsible, inclusive and sustainable way.
• Create the infrastructure needed to store, share and process millions of image files.

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• Authentication into BigPicture services
• Authorizing service access based on membership
• Representation of data collections in AAI + managing access

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EUCAIM

• https://cancerimage.eu/
• Pioneering a pan-European federated infrastructure for cancer images, fueling AI innovations.
• Provides a robust, trustworthy platform for researchers, clinicians, and innovators to access diverse cancer images, enabling the benchmarking, testing, and piloting of AI-driven technologies.

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• Authentication into services
• Some services similar to BBMRI-ERIC (Negotiator, Directory)
• similar requirements
• Integration of multiple AAIs together
• LS Login + EGI CheckIn

Instruct-ERIC

• https://instruct-eric.org/
• Provides access to high-end structural biology services and techniques to researchers around the world.
• Promotes innovation in biomedical science and operates on a non-economic basis within the scope of the ERIC Regulation.

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• EOSC-Life plan - full integration into LS Login
• Has its own AAI - ARIA
• LS Login integrated as an authentication mechanism
• Special requirements on collected data

EJP-RD

• https://www.ejprarediseases.org/
• A programme aiming to create an effective rare diseases research ecosystem for progress, innovation and for the benefit of everyone with a rare disease.
• Supports rare diseases stakeholders by funding research, bringing together data resources & tools, providing dedicated training courses, and translating high quality research into effective treatments.

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• Virtual platform as a key service
• Authentication
• users
• API-level among resources
• Authorization management in the future

Euro-BioImaging

• https://www.eurobioimaging.eu/
• Offers open access to biological and biomedical imaging technologies, training and data services across 41 Nodes, comprised of 237 facilities, in 18 countries and the EMBL
• Member of the EOSC-Life

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• Primary service - Access Portal
• Authentication via LS Login
• previously already connected to ELIXIR AAI
• So far no request for more functionality

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Health-RI

• https://www.health-ri.nl/en/
• Dutch local infrastructure
• Better health(care) for citizens and patients​ by​ reusing health data​ with​ an integrated health data infrastructure​ for​ research, policy and innovation.
• Connecting and collaborating with public and private initiatives nationally and internationally.

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• GDI involvement - LS Login connection
• Authorization to compute resources via LS Login
• alongside existing authorization setup
• Plans - integration of national AAI with LS Login

canSERV

• https://www.canserv.eu/
• EU-funded project under the Horizon Europe programme that provides cutting edge, interdisciplinary and customised oncology services across the entire cancer continuum.
• The aim is to offer a comprehensive portfolio of oncology-related research services available to all scientists in EU member countries, associated countries and beyond.

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• Similar setup to BBMRI-ERIC and EUCAIM
• Negotiator, Directory
• LS Login authentication
• Role authorization via AAI units

EuroPDX

• https://europdx.eu/
• Consortium is an initiative of translational and clinical researchers now counting 18 not-for-profit cancer centres and universities as members across Europe and in the US.
• The main objectives of the Consortium are to join forces and build large collections of models to cover cancer heterogeneity, and to raise standards in the preclinical setting.

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• LS Login for authentication
• Already integrated into ELIXIR AAI

RationAI

• https://rationai.fi.muni.cz/
• Research group, founded by researchers from the Faculty of Informatics and Institute of Computer Science at Masaryk University,
• Concentrates on developing cutting-edge AI methods in biomedicine.
• Support cooperation between domain experts and computer science specialists, focusing on explaining the behavior of these AI methods (explainable AI, XAI).
• Traceable development, training, and validation of the AI methods using automated provenance information generation and robust visualization systems.
• Develop a trusted environment for the validation of AI methods using evaluation metrics developed in tight cooperation with the domain experts.
• AAI for the EMPAIA platform (https://www.empaia.org)
• Authentication
• Authorization to access data
• Role management

NFDI

• https://www.nfdi.de/?lang=en
• Vision of NFDI is data as a common good for excellent research, organised by the scientific community in Germany.
• Represents Germany as a mandated member of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). NFDI is also a member of the internationally active Research Data Alliance (RDA).
• Covering many areas (not just Life Sciences)

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• Initially Authentication to services
• Authorization as a next step
• SLAs + agreements, high requirements on the service stability
• Success: LS Login to be used in the DE national infrastructure
• similarly as de.NBI

de.NBI

• https://www.denbi.de/
• Maintains and develops almost 100 software tools and four internationally recognized databases.
• The de.NBI cloud is an excellent solution to enable integrative analyses for the entire life sciences community in Germany.

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• Cloud infrastructure integrating initially with ELIXIR AAI
• Shaping the functionality of AAI
• Probably the biggest success of ELIXIR AAI, one of most used in LS AAI.
• Authentication - gateway to
• Authorization
• projects, resource allocations, accounting, limits
• Topic for a whole engagement call (next one?)

Wrap-up

• Lot of other projects

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• Lot of other services

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• Keep coming with your requirements

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