Current and future plans for ELIXIR presentation given by Niklas Blomberg, ELIXIR Director at ELIXIR Launch event, 18th December 2013

1. Current and future plans
for ELIXIR
Niklas Blomberg, ELIXIR Director
18 December 2013
European Life Sciences Infrastructure for Biological Information
www.elixir-europe.org

2. ELIXIR’s mission
To build a sustainable
European infrastructure for
biological information,
supporting life science
research and its
translation to:
medicine
environment
bioindustries
society
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3. The Challenge in Life Sciences
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Data
Standards
Tools
Compute
Training
Industry

4. The Challenge in Life Sciences
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Data
Standards
Tools
Compute
Training
Industry

5. A distributed infrastructure to scale with the
challenge
ELIXIR data infrastructure
for Europe’s life science
research sector
ELIXIR Nodes build local
bioinformatics capacity
throughout Europe
ELIXIR Nodes build on
national strengths and
priorities
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6. ELIXIR Status
MoU signed:
ECA signed:
Announcing today:
Belgium
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7. New building for ELIXIR Hub now open
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8. ELIXIR Pilot: Identifying new drug targets
Interoperability of high-resolution protein
data at EMBL-EBI and HPA, Sweden
The Human Protein Atlas portal is a publicly available database with millions of high-resolution images
showing the spatial distribution of proteins in 46 different normal human tissues and 20 different cancer
types, as well as 47 different human cell lines. http://www.proteinatlas.org
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9. Acceleration towards sustained operations
• Key objectives:
• In 2014: Build on success of Interim Phase, formal establishment of
Nodes
• In 2015: Start delivering ELIXIR services, sustain BioMedBridges
services
• From 2016 onwards: sustained operations across ELIXIR
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10. Industry and Innovation
• Challenge to access and
understand services
• EU wide engagement
programme - Build on
strong local interactions
through Nodes!
• Small companies – Big
Data
• ELIXIR Cloud for SMEs
• EFPIA and IMI
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11. ELIXIR Programme
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12. A Life-science infrastructure of interoperable and
integrated data-services
Will the improvement we see in an
LPS-challenged mouse translate to
a measurable clinical benefit?
Data interoperability, vocabulary and ontology services
Europe PMC
EGA
Expression Atlas
HPA
Gene Ontology
UniProt
user data
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13. BioMedBridges
Ten new biomedical sciences research infrastructures
stronger through common links
• Computational ‘data and service’
bridges between the BMS RIs
• Interoperability between data
and services in the biological,
medical, translational and
clinical domains
• Link basic biological research
data with clinical research and
associated data
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14. Future challenges for life-science data services
Distributed infrastructure with >1M users
Scale and
Sustain
funding
Algorithms to data – clouds, research environments…
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15. ELIXIR
Safeguarding the results of life science
research in Europe
European Life Sciences Infrastructure for Biological Information
www.elixir-europe.org

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