Projektový manažer: Mgr. Radka Bunešová
ELIXIR-CZ (LM2018131)
Name: Czech National Infrastructure for Biological Data
Coordinator: Ústav organické chemie a biochemie AV ČR, v.v.i.
Partners: Biologické centrum AV ČR, v. v. i., Biotechnologický ústav AV ČR, v. v. i., CESNET, zájmové sdružení právnických osob, České vysoké učení technické v Praze, Fakultní nemocnice u sv. Anny v Brně, Jihočeská univerzita v Českých Budějovicích, Masarykova univerzita, Mikrobiologický ústav AV ČR, v. v. i., Univerzita Karlova, Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, Ústav molekulární genetiky AV ČR, v. v. i., Vysoká škola chemicko-technologická v Praze, Západočeská univerzita v Plzni
Solver: Vohnout Rudolf, Department of Informatics
Realization: 01/01/2020 – 31/12/2022
Budget: 146 845 000 Kč (projekt) / 6 283 000 Kč (PřF)
Provider: MŠMT
Program: Research infrastructures
www.elixir-czech.cz
Abstract
Elixír CZ is a large and important infrastructure in the field of life sciences focused on biological data, its processing, storage, sharing and analysis. The Czech ELIXIR node represented by the ÚOCHB of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic as a national node for bioinformatics, which includes an advanced computing environment, dedicated data collections and unique tools provided to the life science community. The node is created and operated as a distributed infrastructure that currently includes fourteen organizations. Partner institutions provide Czech scientists and the international scientific community with open access tools and databases. One of the partners is the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice.
Aims
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Provision of related tools and database services, at an excellent level with a focus on the bioinformatics and Life Science user community in the Czech Republic and Europe, including support for these tools.
- Focusing on new data-generating life sciences disciplines and emerging user communities.
- Providing solutions for unified access to data by following and applying FAIR principles.
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Application of principles for unified data management and provision of tools for generating Data management plan at both national and European level.
- Linking data and tools.
- Creation of data strategy tools and its application in a heterogeneous national environment.
- An integral part of Node is a specialized computing and storage environment managed by important national academic cloud / grid providers and reflecting the real needs of the Czech Republic on a European scale and at the ELIXIR Hub level.
- An important feature of the proposed ELIXIR node is the close connection and cooperation with ESFRI infrastructure projects in the Czech Republic - especially INSTRUCT, EATRIS, BBMRI, EuroBioimaging and EU-OPENSCREEN and others.
Outputs
Connections between national and pan-European research structures in three strong areas:
1) The most advanced and developed area belongs to the field of structural bioinformatics, focusing primarily on services and the development of specific tools. The structural area of bioinformatics is very closely connected with Czech partners for the IT infrastructure of research - namely CESNET and CERIT SC, which provide not only computing and storage capacity, but also know-how in the area of networks and the use of heterogeneous resources.
2) The second largest area is represented by curated databases in two main areas - specific collections of genomic data on microorganisms and plants and cheminformatics databases, which also serve as a link between other biomedical infrastructure projects, such as EU-OPENSCREEN and EATRIS.
3) Last but not least, specialized IT solutions for the ELIXIR infrastructure are developed by IT partners, and their involvement in other ELIXIR CZ projects represents a common platform for the unification and efficiency of the entire process. The node also serves as a coordination platform for national bioinformatics activities and is responsible for the uniformity of data, the application of ELIXIR standards and global accessibility throughout the research space in the Czech Republic.