Interoperability: Integration of data and services The ELIXIR Interoperability Platform supports an interoperable bioinformatics ecosystem composed of distributed resources providing data, tools and services, based upon the concept of FAIR data (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable). The scope of the Platform spans different data types, tools, and services, and different life science domains and communities. The Platform participates in international standards initiatives, notably Research Data Alliance, GA4GH, Common Workflow Language and GO-FAIR, in the orchestration of technical tasks and activities in ELIXIR Nodes and in EU projects such as FAIRplus, EOSC-Life, and EJP-RD, and by dedicated Platform investments. This involves building the foundation of Interoperability services, to ensure that the services are fit-for-purpose both at the national policy and end-user implementation levels. In FAIRplus, the focus is weighted towards methodologies to support the FAIRification of existing datasets in the pharmaceutical sector. EOSC-Life works on constructing a FAIR service ecosystem across the common datadriven challenges in the biomedical sciences, leveraging the Common Workflow Language and the Bioschemas metadata frameworks. The FAIRification Pipeline from FAIRPlus, which applies documented and validated processes to datasets. FAIRness is assessed as the data enters the pipeline, and again after the data exits. Members of the Interoperability Platform play a lead role in FAIRplus and are charged with disseminating the work beyond the project partners and across ELIXIR. Feasibility Study
Capability Maturity Model
Requirement Analysis
Planning
Major achievements in 2019 The ELIXIR 2019-2023 Scientific Programme has introduced collaborations across the different ELIXIR projects. These interactions collectively build up the interoperability technical implementations to fill the gaps in the FAIR Service Architecture Framework, and are driven by many specific Community use cases, interactions with projects and by ELIXIR’s Data Management Network.
Task 1: FAIR Service Architecture The Recommended Interoperability Resource (RIR) selection call opened for 2019/2020 in Autumn 2020 and periodic Quality Assessment review of current RIRs was initiated. The Platform also initiated a programme of crossRIR interoperability and RIR dissemination in other ELIXIR Platforms. FAIRsharing1, the ELIXIR standards catalogue started a joint project with DataCite to work with publishers to identify common criteria for data repository selection that works for publishers. Molgenis became a key service in two Canadian-European projects in large-scale integrated cohort data analysis (CINECA, EUCAN). InterMine released a new version that now imports data into Galaxy from any InterMine server2.
Business Analysis
Design
Implementation
RECIPE BOOK
FAIRplus Squads
Assessment
FAIR Maturity Indicators and Asessment
The FAIR Cookbook and Recipes
1 Sansone S, McQuilton P, Rocca-Serra P et al. FAIRsharing as a community approach to standards, repositories and policies. Nat Biotechnol 2019, 37, pages 358–367 (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-019-0080-8) 2 https://galaxyproject.org/news/2019-09-intermine/
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