ELIXIR-UK All Hands 2023
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ELIXIR-UK All Hands 2023 - Day One
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Time | | Speaker |
09:00 - 09:30 | Registration | |
09:30 - 10:10 | Session One: ELIXIR-UK and ELIXIR - A Year in Review and a Glimpse into the Future | Carole Goble and Neil Hall |
10:10 - 10:40 | Break | |
10:40 - 12:40 | Session Two: World Cafe | Introduced by Carole Goble |
12:40 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
14:00 - 15:30 | Session Three: A word from our Funders, the ELIXIR Hub and Industry | Introduced by Neil Hall |
15:30 - 16:00 | Break | |
16:00 - 17:00 | Session Four: Showcase - Fellows and New Members | Introduced by Xenia Perez Sitja |
17:00 - 18:00 | Poster Session | |
18:00 - 20:00 | Buffet Dinner | |
Session One: ELIXIR-UK and ELIXIR - A Year in Review and a Glimpse into the Future
Professor Carole Goble & Professor Neil Hall
Joint Heads of Node ELIXIR-UK
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ELIXIR Europe
https://elixir-europe.org
Intergovernmental organisation
Towards a federated digital infrastructure for Life Science Data, coordinating national capabilities
Data & software FAIR and open as possible
Transnational access and analysis
Sensitive data
Gateway to Communities of Practice, European and Global initiatives, Standards Bodies
Coordinate joint funding actions and participations
The ELIXIR-UK Node
https://elixiruknode.org
Network of organisations
Coordination of UK services for ELIXIR and capacity building.
Supplies many ELIXIR Services to European and International partners.
Members participate, and lead, ELIXIR communities, activities, technologies, resources.
Collaborates with international partners: Australian BioCommons, ERGA, NIH ODSS.
Lead in community activities: RDA, FDO Forum, GA4GH, ReSA, EOSC Association.
Works with Intl and UK funders on policy & infrastructure provision & skills.
ELIXIR-UK Membership
Soon to be included:
5 New Members since 2021
Member census Nov 30
ELIXIR in Nutshell
Single Cell Omics
RDM
Biodiversity
Toxicology
Food and Nutrition
Systems Biology
Focus Groups
Resourcing
European Research Infrastructure Life Science Cluster
Trusted data resources
RDM platforms & support
FAIR services & registries
Data analytics and Tools
Knowledge Management
Stewardship and training
ELIXIR Services in a Nutshell
Trusted data resources
RDM platforms & support
FAIR services & registries
Data analytics and Tools
Knowledge Management
Stewardship and training
ELIXIR-UK Node Services
New services, 6 more road mapped
ELIXIR-UK Node Services
Global BioData Coalition Services
ELIXIR Core Data Resources
ELIXIR Recommended Interop Resources
ELIXIR Tool and Training Flagship Services
Thank you to our Scientific Development Group (SDG) for their help with reviewing the EoIs and selecting our new services
In review
RDM Knowledge
RDM Knowledge Services Updates
180+ contributors, 118+ pages, links to 500+ tools
Infectious Diseases Toolkit, 1+MG Framework
Funder, national and institutional recommendations, UK specific pages
84 recipes, 97 contributors
Commercial contribs: AZ, Bayer, Janssen, GSK, Novartis, B Ingelheim, Hyve
Funder, national and institutional recommendations
1698 Standards, 2061 databases, 163 policies, 1321 contributors
FAIRsharing assistant
Funder recommendations
183/8529 Events, 2K+ Materials, 161 e-Learning, 14 collections, 110 providers
New interface, National node registry, Bioschema driven, FAIR Training
Adopted by NL, ESCAPE RI, Australian BioCommons
UK, LU, BE, DE, ES, SW, NL
UK, LU
UK
UK, EE, BE, FR
RDM, Knowledge and Capacity Building
Funded by UKRI 2021-2023
24 Fellows, 17 organisations
https://fellowship.elixiruknode.org/
Short videos on basic and specialised data management
11 male, 13 female
3 junior, 14 early, 3 mid
RDM, Knowledge and Capacity Building
Community Champion Programme
Data Professionals Focus Group
ELIXIR-UK
Data Management Club
Robert Andrews (Cardiff),
Munazah Andrabi (Manchester)
Manchester, Bradford, Earlham Institute, Open University
Oxford
Co-lead Alexia Cardona (Cambridge)
Co-lead Emma Karoune (OLS)
Learning Paths Focus Group
BioCuration Focus Group
Steering Committee Valerie Wood (Cambridge)
Terms4FAIRskills
Co-lead Munazah Andrabi (Manchester)
FAIR Training Focus Group
Co-lead Sara Morsy (Bradford)
FAIR services
FAIRification best practices and methodologies
FAIR principles for data, software and workflows
Schema management and mappings
Research Knowledge Graphs
Bioschemas
FAIR Metrics and Assessment (Oxford, Manchester)
Co-lead Interoperability Platform
OSTrials
Adoption in Training and Tools resources & interoperability
Used with RO-Crate digital objects
Feed EU Knowledge Graphs
Improved tools
Tools, Workflows, Analysis, Interoperability, Reproducibility
Workflow Registry, integration with repos, WFMS, services
444 Workflows, 203 Teams, 592 registrants, 18 systems
FAIR Digital Object Packaging
De facto Infrastructure mechanism for FAIR Digital Objects exchange, EOSC and intl uptake
RO-Crate support, ENA support, Single Cell, hCNV, microbio, Earth Systems, training, env. impact
Nicola Soranzo (Earlham), Wendi Bacon (OU), Krzysztof Poterlowicz (Bradford)
Stian Soiland-Reyes (Manchester)
Finn Bacall (Manchester)
ELIXIR-STEERS
EVERSE
Human and Health Data
EOSC ENTRUST
Many node members active in human and health data: Dundee, (Swansea), Leicester, Nottingham, Cambridge, UEA, KCL. UK outside of European Genomics Data Infrastructure.
Trusted Research Environments, Federated Analytics
ELIXIR Tool technologies: RO-Crates and Workflows
DARE UK sprint, EOSC ENTRUST projects
Five Safes RO-Crate
Food and Nutrition Community (Quadram)
Diet and Microbiome Implementation Study: metadata harmonisation and cross-linking across resources to make diet and microbiome data FAIR
Health Data
Focus Group
(co-lead Tim Beck, Notts)
Best practices & recommendations on the management of
FAIR Health Data,
GA4GH, Beacons
FAIRification best practices and methodologies
FAIR principles for data, models and workflows
RDM Knowledge management
Bioschemas
Metadata standards
FAIR Digital Objects – RO-Crate
Data brokering pipelines – COPO+RO-Crate
Computational workflows
Specimen digitisation pipelines
Biodiversity and Agri-Tech
UK Digital Research Infrastructures
Structural Bioinformatics and Omics
UK participates in every community and platform
Co-lead Christine
Orengo (UCL),
Lynne Regan (Edinburgh)
Staff Exchange
UK-DE
Wendi Bacon (OU)
Industry Knowledge Exchange
Co-lead Anil Wipat (Newcastle)
Co-lead Krzysztof Poterlowicz (Bradford)
Co-lead Nicola Soranzo (Earlham Institute)
Community
UK-2021-3DBioinfo (UEA)(UCL)
UK-2021-Plants (UOxf), (Rothamsted), (UMan), (Earlham)
UK-2021-hCNVbundles (UBrad)
UK-2021- hCNVexchange (ULeics)(UBrad)
UK-2021-Galaxy (Earlham)(UBrad)
UK-2022-Food & Nutrition (QIB)
UK-2023-Scone (UCardiff)
UK-2023-SYBEL (UCardiff)(UBrad)
Platforms
UK-2022-EDP2 (HWU)
UK-2022-Apicuron (UniCam)(UCL)
UK-2022-EIP1 (UOXF)
UK-2022-EIP2 (UOXF)(UMAN)
UK-2022-ETP1 (UMAN)
UK-2022-Humangenphen (ULeics)
UK-2022-LipidPathways (UniCardiff)
UK-2022-TeSS (UMAN)(UCAM)
UK-2022-TP1-4 (UCAM)
UK-2022-ECP2 (Earlham)
UK-2022-Travel (Node Coord Office)
Strategic
UK-2021-Container Services (UMan)
UK-2021-Impact (Earlham)(UCam)
UK-2022-BeaconInfrastructure (ULeics)
UK-2022-Beacon (ULeics)
UK-2022-FHD (ULeics)
UK-2022-RDservices (UBrad)
UK-2023-MLstandards (ULeics)(UCL)(UCardiff)
£1,260K
ELIXIR-UK: out and about
ELIXIR All Hands 2023
European Biohackathon 2023
ELIXIR-UK: Industry
How can we better engage industry?
Focus on FAIR, AI and TREs
Innovation Forums and Hackathons
Virtual staff exchanges
Engage communities eg Pistoia Alliance
UK Life Science Informatics Forum
ELIXIR Workplan 2024-2028
Funding spread thin
UK 51PMs
Reproducible analysis Federated services
RDM and knowledge sharing
Tools, Training, Interop
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1oEeC0Om8c_giqPzGUedsKxcnuShq_tG7
ELIXIR-UK working for its Members
Bringing our services and technology to UK resources
Building capacity through partnerships
Capitalising on & engaging members
Mobilising ELIXIR for members
BioFAIR Feasibility Study (2020)
Proposal for a feasibility study of a new institute to improve the research data management efficacy for UK life science researchers
https://biofair.uk/
A Data and Computational Method Commons infrastructure for biological and biomedical sciences
19 June 2023
Support individuals, and support project teams collaborating intra and inter organisation
Support FAIR data and workflows for consumers and producers of data and tools
Researchers, data stewards, bioinformaticians and core facilities, tool & data providers, Research Software Engineers…
End to End FAIR data and analysis support, retention & deposition
A coherent ecosystem of data and analysis services for the UK.
Shared capacity building.
FAIR data stewardship.
Bring ELIXIR tools, data resource, workflow, RDM knowledge know-how to the benefit of the UK
Support UK’s researchers and providers to be more FAIR and productive for themselves and for their communities
Support the UK’s data stewards to enable FAIR practice and share FAIR data & data analysis
Collaborate with communities and their Data Hub activities
A coherent ecosystem of data and analysis services for the UK.
Shared capacity building.
FAIR data stewardship.
MethodHub
DataHub
KnowledgeHub
CommunityHub
Tool integration, data stewardship, workflow development, training, project support
National data analysis facility using QA workflows & notebooks over dedicated national compute.
Metadata catalogue over a federated data lake with islands of deeper harmonised datasets
Data brokering into EMBL-EBI + deposition archives
Linked to other national data hubs
Gateway Portal and programmatic access
Registries
Hubs to connect researchers with data, methods, knowledge and people
FAIR RDM and data analysis know-how, stewardship and training
UK landscape
Partner with complementary organisations
Complement UKRI Digital Research Infrastructures
Proposal led by UKRI
Interim Director Gerry Reilly
A series of Stakeholders meetings November-June 2024
Start Summer 2024
We are on a Break.
The next session starts at:
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Session Two: World Cafe
Professor Carole Goble
Joint Head of Node
University of Manchester
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The afternoon session starts at:
14:00
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Session Three
Professor Neil Hall
Joint Head of Node
Earlham Institute
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Time | Content | Speaker |
14:00 - 15:30 | Session Three: | |
| 14:00 - 14:30 A Word from our Funders | Tim Shuttleworth UKRI-BBSRC & Richard Brown UKRI-BBSRC |
| 14:30 - 15:00: ELIXIR Hub - How to maximise the Nodes contribution | Jonathan Tedds (ELIXIR Hub) |
| 15:00 - 15:30 How can we engage with Industry? | Helena Saunders (Syngenta) |
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Session Three:
A Word from our Funders
Tim Shuttleworth & Richard Brown
UKRI-BBSRC
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Session Three:
ELIXIR Hub - How to Maximise the UK Node’s contribution
Jonathan Tedds
Programme Manager for Scientific Computing
ELIXIR Europe
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Session Three:
How can we engage with Industry?
Helena Saunders
Computational Biology Lead
Syngenta
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We are on a Break.
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16:00
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Session Four: Showcase - ELIXIR-UK Fellowship
Xenia Perez Sitja
Fellowship Community Manager
University of Bradford
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Korneel Hens (Oxford Brookes University)
Saskia Lawson-Tovey (University of Manchester)
Manuel Lera-Ramírez (University College London)
Sandra Ng (Queen Mary University of London)
ELIXIR-UK Fellows:
Session Four: Showcase - New Node Members
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Yo Yehudi (Open Life Science)
Tim Beck (HDR UK)
ELIXIR-UK New Members:
Day One Feedback and Close
Professor Neil Hall
Director Earlham Institute
Co-Head of Node
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17:00 - 18:00 Poster Session
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18:00 - 20:00 Buffet Dinner
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ELIXIR-UK All Hands 2023 - Day Two
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Time | Content | Speaker |
09:00 - 09:30 | Registration | |
09:30 - 11:00 | Session Five: Topics on Tap: a World Cafe of Attendee Ideas | |
11:00 - 11:30 | Break | |
11:30 - 13:00 | Session Six: | |
| 11:30 - 12:00 How to get involved in European Projects | Carole Goble |
| 12:00 - 13:00 Panel Q&A - Ask us Anything:
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13:00 - 13:30 | Closing Remarks | Carole Goble and Neil Hall |
13:30 - 14:30 | Lunch | |
Session Five: Topics on Tap - a World Cafe of attendees Ideas
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Group Photo @ 11:50
We are on a Break.
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Session Six: How to get involved in European projects?
Professor Carole Goble
The University of Manchester
Co-Head of Node
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Session Six: Q&A Panel
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Q&A Panel - Ask us Anything:
Day Two Feedback and Close
Professor Neil Hall
Director Earlham Institute
Co-Head of Node
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