Milestone MS6 Work Package 2, Milestone 6: Engagement plan Outline plan and schedule for engagement approved and published on the website. Work Package 2, Task 2.3 Dissemination and outreach Engaging all sectors from the public to research specialists and communicating the power of a virtual research environment to provide a seamless resource for the management, analysis, interpretation, archiving and protection of data acquired from structural biology methods (Objective 2.3). Engagement Plan In agreement with WP2 of the Technical Annex, plans of actions for the engagement with different communities have been outlined, as detailed in the sections below. This allowed to define the “Engagement plan” reported in Appendix 1. This plan is published in the West-Life web site, and will be continuously updated. Engagement with the structural biology community West-Life VRE provides a platform offering variety of services and information on the services. Having an overview of experiments performed through an operational pipeline accessing different facilities in sequence would be extremely beneficial for the already well- informed community. This can be further publicised by West-Life presence at structural biology conferences, workshops and meetings. Flyers (Appendix 3), presentations and posters at external meetings have already been made and will be continued. The project website has news items that is updated with the latest structural biology happenings and is linked to the Structural Biology Research Infrastructure (Instruct). The project website also has an overview of the latest events in the community thus promoting collaboration and further engagement. Embracing the social networks, West-Life has an active twitter account which is in constant interaction with the different partners in the community. West-Life will also have a LinkedIn page, thus helping the community in facilitating movement of talents and jobs in the network. Action points • Continued presence of West-Life at conferences and distribution of flyers, brochures etc. o Participants of the project, attending conferences/workshops, are strongly encouraged to use West-Life logos, namecheck project partners and distribute business cards. • LinkedIn page with all the details • Addition of West-Life in the Instruct networks, thus providing a forum where people from different communities can interact • Continued update of project website with news and events
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Science and Technology Facilities Council, United Kindgom
Netherlands Cancer Institute - Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Ziekenhuis (NKI AVL), Netherlands
European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany
Masarykova univerzita, Czech Republic
Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Spain
Consorzio Interuniversitario Risonanze Magnetiche di Metallo Proteine, Italy
Instruct Academic Services, United Kingdom
Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands
LUNA, France
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Italy
This project receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant
agreement No 675858.
Participants
West-Life is a H2020 Virtual Research Environment project (EINFRA No 675858) with 10 partners from 7 EU countries.
MilestoneMS6
automated pipelines to process structural biology data
automated & integrated data management
cryo-EM
X-Ray
solid-state NMR
solution NMR
training on advanced computational solutions
in structural biology
cloud & grid resources
EPR SAXS
MS
FRET
Life Sciences in the Cloud
West-Life pilots an e-infrastructure for providing data services and tools for structural biology
West-Life is a Virtual Research Environment (VRE) through which users from the life science research community can access services and tools that will advance their research in the area of structural biology. The services made available will support experimental techniques such as X-ray, cryo-EM, NMR, SAXS and some biophysical techniques and provide the means to access more generic data services developed by EUDAT and the EGI. West-Life therefore makes integrated approaches to science more accessible and provides the IT infrastructure in support. West-Life builds on the strong foundations set up by WeNMR to serve the strong and growing community of European structural biologists under the umbrella of Instruct.
West-Life is developing a pilot infrastructure for storing and processing data that are obtained using combined techniques to achieve outcomes of higher impact.
West-Life allows structural biologists to fully leverage the available European computational infrastructures and services
West-Life aims to integrate existing data management services and develop new ones. Users will benefit from having an overview of experiments performed through an operational pipeline accessing different facilities in sequence, with appropriate data stores and data processing services. The history of a project will be captured through metadata that is automatically saved through each of the pipeline steps to track your processing and record the provenance of your results.
West-Life will improve structural biology research outcomes by integrating data from complementary techniques into an enriched dataset that may provide new insights and set new paradigms in important areas of life science research.