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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

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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

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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.

  • Internal ELIXIR pan-node projects: currently 29 projects (13 member orgs).
  • External EC projects: currently 16 Horizon Europe (11 member orgs).

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.

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ELIXIR-UK Membership

Soon to be included:

  • Pirbright Institute
  • University of Swansea

5 New Members since 2021

  1. Cardiff University
  2. Earlham institute  (lead) (Joint Head of Node)
  3. HDR-UK (2023)
  4. Heriot Watt University
  5. Imperial College London
  6. King's College London (2021)
  7. Newcastle University
  8. Open Life Science (OLS) (2022)
  9. Open University (2022)
  10. Quadram Institute Bioscience (QIB)
  11. Rothamsted Research
  12. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
  13. University of Birmingham
  14. University of Bradford
  15. University of Cambridge
  16. University College London
  17. University of Dundee
  18. University of East Anglia
  19. University of Edinburgh, the Roslin Institute
  20. University of Exeter (2022)
  21. University of Leicester
  22. University of Liverpool
  23. University of Manchester (Joint Head of Node)
  24. University of Nottingham
  25. University of Oxford

Member census Nov 30

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ELIXIR in Nutshell

Single Cell Omics

RDM

Biodiversity

Toxicology

Food and Nutrition

Systems Biology

Focus Groups

Resourcing

  • Internal Projects
  • European Projects

European Research Infrastructure Life Science Cluster

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Trusted data resources

RDM platforms & support

FAIR services & registries

Data analytics and Tools

Knowledge Management

Stewardship and training

ELIXIR Services in a Nutshell

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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

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ELIXIR-UK Node Services

  • Geoff Barton - University of Dundee
  • Simon Hubbard - University of Manchester
  • Christine Orengo - University College London
  • Nicola Soranzo - Earlham Institute
  • David Westhead - University of Leeds

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

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RDM Knowledge

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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

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RDM, Knowledge and Capacity Building

Funded by UKRI 2021-2023

24 Fellows, 17 organisations

    • RDM and FAIR ambassadors
    • Train the Trainer & Mentoring
    • 44 RDMbites

https://fellowship.elixiruknode.org/

Short videos on basic and specialised data management

11 male, 13 female

3 junior, 14 early, 3 mid

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RDM, Knowledge and Capacity Building

Community Champion Programme

Data Professionals Focus Group

ELIXIR-UK

Data Management Club

Robert Andrews (Cardiff),

Munazah Andrabi (Manchester)

  • Monthly meetings
  • Webinars, Networking
  • Data Management Plans using UK Data Stewardship Wizard
  • RDM UK Knowledge

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)

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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

  • Susanna Sansone, Oxford

OSTrials

Adoption in Training and Tools resources & interoperability

Used with RO-Crate digital objects

Feed EU Knowledge Graphs

Improved tools

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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

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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

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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

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Structural Bioinformatics and Omics

  • Establishing metadata standards, robust workflows for data processing (COPO, RO-Crate, Galaxy)
  • Integrating to established resources eg .UNITE and ENA
  • Establishing integrated platform for activities such as bioprospecting.
  • Produce online training materials and deliver training courses
  • Protein structure annotation, protein complex prediction, protein ligand interaction, protein nucleic acid interactions, and protein engineering.
  • integrating predicted data and benchmarking tools.

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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

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ELIXIR-UK: out and about

ELIXIR All Hands 2023

European Biohackathon 2023

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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

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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

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ELIXIR-UK working for its Members

Bringing our services and technology to UK resources

  • Assessment and FAIRification of Node data archives
  • Register all training and resources
  • UK tailored content, Bioschemas

Building capacity through partnerships

  • Fellowship leveraging with other networks

Capitalising on & engaging members

  • Training, Nextflow & snakemake expertise, AI & knowledge graphs, LHS
  • 2024 Programme of hackathons, training, UK-focused activities

Mobilising ELIXIR for members

  • In grants and activities, participation in 2023-2028 work programme, policy consultations

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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

    • In collab. with Technopolis. Funded by BBSRC, MRC and Wellcome

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https://biofair.uk/

A Data and Computational Method Commons infrastructure for biological and biomedical sciences

19 June 2023

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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.

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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.

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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

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UK landscape

Partner with complementary organisations

Complement UKRI Digital Research Infrastructures

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Proposal led by UKRI

Interim Director Gerry Reilly

A series of Stakeholders meetings November-June 2024

Start Summer 2024

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We are on a Break.

The next session starts at:

10:40

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Session Two: World Cafe

Professor Carole Goble

Joint Head of Node

University of Manchester

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Tables:

  1. ELIXIR 101

  • Data Management Club

  • Health Data UK Community

  • Training in the UK

  • Node Communications and Impact

  • Introduction to BioFAIR

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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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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:

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Session Four: Showcase - New Node Members

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Yo Yehudi (Open Life Science)

Tim Beck (HDR UK)

ELIXIR-UK New Members:

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Day One Feedback and Close

Professor Neil Hall

Director Earlham Institute

Co-Head of Node

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Please follow the link and vote for topics that you would like to see discussed tomorrow.

Voting open

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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:

  • Carole Goble - University of Manchester, Head of Node
  • Neil Hall - Earlham Institute, Head of Node
  • Yo Yehudi - OLS, a new Node member
  • Robert Andrews - Cardiff University, Data Management
  • Krzysztof Poterlowicz - University of Bradford, Training Coordinator
  • Xenia Perez Sitja - University of Bradford,Fellowship Community Manager

13:00 - 13:30

Closing Remarks

Carole Goble and Neil Hall

13:30 - 14:30

Lunch

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Session Five: Topics on Tap - a World Cafe of attendees Ideas

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Tables:

  • What is the future of funding for data resources in the UK?

  • Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

  • How to fix incentives for PIs to get involved in good, FAIR data management?

  • Federation across domains

  • Commitment to next steps on impact and communication to raise profiles between ELIXIR-UK and member organisations

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Group Photo @ 11:50

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11:30

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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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  • Carole Goble - University of Manchester, Head of Node
  • Neil Hall - Earlham Institute, Head of Node
  • Yo Yehudi - OLS, a new Node member
  • Robert Andrews - Cardiff University, Data Management
  • Krzysztof Poterlowicz - University of Bradford, Training Coordinator
  • Xenia Perez Sitja - University of Bradford,Fellowship Community Manager

Q&A Panel - Ask us Anything:

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Day Two Feedback and Close

Professor Neil Hall

Director Earlham Institute

Co-Head of Node

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Thank you for joining us

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Thank you!

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