FAIRDOM

FAIRDOM is establishing a support and service network for European Systems Biology. FAIRDOM is a joint action of ERA-Net ERASysAPP and European Research Infrastructure ISBE to establish a data and model management service facility for Systems Biology. Our prime mission is to support researchers, students, trainers, funders and publishers by enabling Systems Biology projects to make their Data, Operating procedures and Models, Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR).

Data integration is an essential part of Systems Biology. Scientists need to combine different sources of information in order to model biological systems, and relate those models to available experimental data for validation. Currently, only a small fraction of the data and models produced during Systems Biology investigations are deposited for reuse by the community, and only a smaller fraction of that data is standards compliant, semantic content. By embedding semantic technologies into familiar ...

Research in Systems Biology involves integrating data and knowledge about the dynamic processes in biological systems in order to understand and model them. By connecting fields such as genomics, proteomics, bioinformatics, mathematics, cell biology, genetics, mathematics, engineering and computer sciences, Systems Biology enables discovery of yet unknown principles underlying the functioning of living cells. At the same time, testable and predictive models of complex cellular pathways and ...

Here you will find guidelines for creating MIAPE compliant proteomics data files as well as examples and links to online tools and resources

Here you will find guidelines for creating MAGE-TAB compliant transcriptomics data files as well as examples and links to online tools and resources.

These templates can be used for a selection of metabolomics data types. There is a MASTER template for general use and adaptation as well as several more specific templates for particular types of experiment (e.g. HPLC), or specific assay types (e.g glucose pulse)

Dear SEEK users, this Assay is just an example Excel sheet for intracellular metabolites concentration measurements performed using cell culture growing in chemostat

Some generic examples of transcriptomics templates that conform to the MAGE-TAB specification. These templates were created and modified from templates produced by ArrayExpress and GEO. These templates are generic and non-specific for any particular array platform.

Some examples of proteomics templates for Mass Spectrometry data that conform to the MIAPE specification

This Excel template is the general (master) template for any type of metabolomics data. It can be used as it is, or extended and modified to create a more specific templates for particular technologies and assay types.

Some examples of transcriptomics templates for Affymetrix data that conform to the MAGE-TAB specification. These templates were taken from the GEO website (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/info/spreadsheet.html) and modified to conform to the SysMO-JERM (Just enough Results Model) for transcriptomics. Using these templates will mean easier submission to GEO/ArrayExpress and greater consistency of data in SEEK.

A example of an RT-PCR Excel template. RT-PCR is Reverse Transcriptase PCR (NOT to be confused with Real Time PCR, which is normally referred to as qPCR)

This template was taken from the GEO website (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/info/spreadsheet.html) and modified to conform to the SysMO-JERM (Just enough Results Model) for transcriptomics. Using templates will mean easier submission to public databases on publication and greater consistency of data in SEEK.

This Excel template is an example taken from the GEO web site (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/info/spreadsheet.html#GAtemplates) which has been modified to conform to the SysMO JERM (Just Enough Results Model). Using templates helps with searching and comparing data as well as making it easier to submit data to public repositories for publications.

Some examples of transcriptomics templates for NimbleGen data that conform to the MAGE-TAB specification. These templates were taken from the GEO website (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/info/spreadsheet.html) and modified to conform to the SysMO-JERM (Just enough Results Model) for transcriptomics. Using templates will mean easier submission to GEO/ArrayExpress upon publication and greater consistency of data in SEEK for easier searching and comparing.

Examples of proteomics templates for gele electrophoresis data that conform to the MIAPE-GE specification

The purpose of this is using it in ModelXChange.

Deatiled agenda forBest practices in research data management and stewardship (2021-06-14)

Excel sheet template : concentrations of intracellular metabolites

Report of the Data Management Foundry Workshop, 19th-20th of March, 2012, Vienna, Austria

Tutorial given at the Reproducible and Citable Data and Models Workshop, Warnemunde September 14th-16th 2015.

a test file

Agenda for the satellite data management tutorial of Synthetic Biology 2017.

3rd ERASysAPP – EXCHANGE Day: Networking and Info Day for research projects of the first and second ERASysAPP calls

List of participants/1st EraSysApp PALs meeting

Participants of 2nd FAIRDOM PALs meeting in Munich

The tutorial provided for EraSysAPP PALs. Covers new features associated with generating snapshots, research objects, and assigning DOIs to investigation snapshots in order to make them citable structures.

This Excel template is an example taken from the GEO web site (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/info/spreadsheet.html#GAtemplates) which has been modified to conform to the SysMO JERM (Just Enough Results Model). Using templates helps with searching and comparing data as well as making it easier to submit data to public repositories for publications.

This guidlines has been developed by Rita Volkers from Wageningen University for IBISBA project, as example to use

Presentation at the ELIXIR-CONVERGE "2nd online community event for life scientists involved or interested in DM/DS training"

https://www.denbi.de/de-nbi-events/1418-2nd-online-community-event-for-cop-in-dm-ds-training

FAIR Data, Operations and Model management for Systems Biology and Systems Medicine Projects given at 1st Conference of the European Association of Systems Medicine, 26-28 October 2016, Berlin. the FAIRDOM project is described.

Lecture 2: Being Reproducible: Models, Research Objects and R* Brouhaha Reproducibility is a R* minefield, depending on whether you are testing for robustness (rerun), defence (repeat), certification (replicate), comparison (reproduce) or transferring between researchers (reuse). Different forms of "R" make different demands on the completeness, depth and portability of research. Sharing is another minefield raising concerns of credit and protection from sharp practices. In practice the exchange, ...

Lecture 1: Being FAIR: FAIR data and model management In recent years we have seen a change in expectations for the management of all the outcomes of research – that is the “assets” of data, models, codes, SOPs, workflows. The “FAIR” (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship [1] have proved to be an effective rallying-cry. Funding agencies expect data (and increasingly software) management retention and access plans. Journals ...

Presented at Digital Life 2018, Bergen, March 2018. In the Trust and Accountability session. In recent years we have seen a change in expectations for the management and availability of all the outcomes of research (models, data, SOPs, software etc) and for greater transparency and reproduciblity in the method of research. The “FAIR” (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) Guiding Principles for stewardship [1] have proved to be an effective rallying-cry for community groups and for policy ...

A personal view of the big picture in Research Data Management, given at GFBio - de.NBI Summer School 2018 Riding the Data Life Cycle! Braunschweig Integrated Centre of Systems Biology (BRICS), 03 - 07 September 2018

FAIRDOM User Meeting, Lyon, France, 27 Oct 2018 Introduction to FAIRDOM Project and platforms

Keynote presented at the workshop FAIRe Data Infrastructures, 15 October 2020 https://www.gmds.de/aktivitaeten/medizinische-informatik/projektgruppenseiten/faire-dateninfrastrukturen-fuer-die-biomedizinische-informatik/workshop-2020/

Remarkably it was only in 2016 that the ‘FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship’ appeared in Scientific Data. The paper was intended to launch a dialogue within the research and policy communities: to start a journey to wider accessibility ...

COMBINE 2019, EU-STANDS4PM, Heidelberg, Germany 18 July 2019 FAIR: Findable Accessable Interoperable Reusable. The “FAIR Principles” for research data, software, computational workflows, scripts, or any other kind of Research Object one can think of, is now a mantra; a method; a meme; a myth; a mystery. FAIR is about supporting and tracking the flow and availability of data across research organisations and the portability and sustainability of processing methods to enable transparent and ...

Talk given by Olga Krebs and Aleyey Kolodkin at the" Best practices in research data management and stewardship" training on 17 June 2021

FAIRDOM introduction by Olga Krebs

Introductory talk given by Olga Krebs in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Rovira i Virgili on 19th of July 2017

Agenda:

• 14:00 - Welcome
• 14:10 - Marek Ostaszewski (Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine, LU): “FAIRDOMHub - a platform for the research community building the COVID-19 Disease Map”
• 14:30 - Sara El-Gebali (SciLifeLab Data Centre, SE): “Samples Metadata at the SciLifeLab”
• 14:50 - Huiming Ding (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US): “Creating mutable samples using NExtSEEK”
• 15:10 - Rafael Andrade Buono (VIB, BE): “DataHub: focusing on sample metadata”
• 15:30 - Discussion

The purpose of a new series of user meetings is to establish an active FAIRDOM user community to allow networking between various FAIRDOM-SEEK users and learn from each other’s experiences. Within the two-hours event the FAIRDOM team will give an introduction on current developments and the invited users will showcase the use of FAIRDOMHub and other FAIRDOM-SEEK instances for their research projects.

Invited speakers: Cyril Pommier, Frank Meineke, Jasper Koehorst, Andrej Blejec

Day 4 of Best practices in research data management and stewardship 17 June 2021. Introduction to and Hands-on training on FAIRDOMHub to manage your research assets

Managing your data and metadata well is an important research skill. Good data management enables the preparation, handling, storing, sharing, and reuse of data. These attributes of good data management equates to efficient research and saving of time and resources. Data management tools, utilizing data standards and best practices can help to make your research data and models FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable).

SEEK, is a web-based (or locally installed) resource platform ...

FAIRDOM PALS and users meeting 2019 is happening in Heidelberg, as a satellite meeting of the COMBINE (COmputational Modeling in BIology Network) meeting. FAIRDOM is a research infrastructure offering data management support. The SEEK software is designed as registry and storage place for data, models, biological samples, processes, publications and presentations, and at the same time as yellow pages for projects, people and events. SEEK is implemented as central data management platform FAIRDOMhub ...

FAIRDOM training for HOTSOLUTE /EraCoBioTech

During this 3-day course, attendees will learn basic techniques for modeling of biochemical networks including data access and storage due to the FAIR principles. The first day introduces kinetic modeling techniques which will be illustrated and exercised with COPASI. The second day continues with principles of stoichiometric and constraint-based modeling coupled with hands on exercises using CellNetAnalyzer. The third day SABIO-RK is used as a resource for kinetic data and FAIRDOMHub/SEEK is ...

The 10th Young Scientists School “Systems biology and Bioinformatics” SBB-2018 will be held on 27–31th of August 2018 in Novosibirsk, Russia Bioinformatics is a rapidly developing field of knowledge. Each of the past Young Scientists Schools concerned topics urgent at those times. To preserve this tradition, the SBB-2016 will be dedicated to bioinformatics and systems biology in such areas as: Genomics and evolutionary bioinformatics Structural biology and molecular dynamics Molecular-genetic ...

The overarching integrating power of computational modelling, from systems biology to systems medicine

Participants will learn how to structure and share complex data in a Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) manner. Hands-on sessions, lectures and software demonstrations will provide attendees with the necessary skills to apply components of the FAIRDOM infrastructure in their daily work for interrelating and exchanging data, models and corresponding information.

FAIRDOM is a research infrastructure offering data management support. The SEEK software is designed as registry and ...

We are excited to announce our 2017 SynBio Data Management Training Day. The event is co-located with Synthetic Biology UK, in Manchester. The venue will be the Manchester Institute for Biotechnology (http://www.mib.ac.uk/contact/).

Topics that will be covered include

• Model management in FAIRDOMHub
• Publishing using FAIRDOMHub
• Samples in FAIRODMHub

On top of this we will have talks about general data management using FAIRDOM, and also smart publications.

Participation is free. We have limited ...

Target audience: Wet-lab scientists and people dealing with experimental and/or clinical data for research

Topics include:

• Best practice data structuring (spreadsheets) for experimental and (clinical) samples data
• Comprehensive and unambiguous data description and annotation
• Standard formats and terminologies for data and metadata
• Guidelines for reporting data (Minimum information standards)
• Annotation tools (e.g. RightField: http://www.rightfield.org.uk)
• Using SEEK & FAIRDOMhub ...

This event is a jointly organized Data Management PALs Meeting that involves PALs from the German LiSyM (Liver Systems Medicine) network and from the ERASysAPP (ERA-Net for Systems Biology Applications) initiative. PALs (Project Area Liaisons) are the front line experts of the data management teams of these projects. They act as data management advocates and help gathering user requirements and testing potential data management solutions. An important part of the meeting will be to gather the ...

FAIRDOM team is inviting all PALs to participate in the second FAIRDOM PALs meeting. The event will take place on Dec. 9-10th , 2015 in Munich, immediately after the ERAsysAPP exchange meeting scheduled for Dec 8-9th. Beginning at 14:00 on Dec 9h, it will continue till 13:00 on Dec. 10th. Please, consider this when booking your plane/train tickets as well as hotel rooms.

The FAIRDOM team considers the meeting as an opportunity to update the PALs on available data/model management solutions, recent ...

This workshop is for computational biologists and experimentalists who wish to learn about standards, citeable data, about how to make scientific results sustainable, available through open repositories, and about how to find and reuse other people’s works. It comprises of a mixture of lectures and hands-on sessions. We will teach you the major standards and tools that support these standards, as well as steps towards encoding and publishing reproducible modeling results. Topics include data ...

The annual international conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) is the major meeting of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB). Over the past 22 years the ISMB conference has grown to become the world's largest bioinformatics/computational biology conference. Joining forces with the European Conference on Computational Biology (14th Annual Conference) ISMB/ECCB 2015 will be the year's most important computational biology event globally. The conferences ...

The BBSRC has recently funded the UK Multiscale Biology network, motivated by BBSRC strategic discussions which identified ‘Multi-Scale Biology’ (MSB) as a key area of research and capability that will be at the forefront of bioscience research over the next 5-10 years. The network will aim to: • facilitate the exploitation of areas of synergy between researchers across the UK in the broad area of multi-scale biology (MSB); • raise awareness of the benefits of MSB; • identify areas that are most ...

1st FAIRDOM + EraSysApp PALs meeting will be co-located with ERASysAPP – EXCHANGE: Networking and Info Day in Berlin, on 16 -17 April 2015

April 16th ABION Spreebogen Hotel, Salon Charlottenburg

18:00 -22:00 Social gathering and informal presentations with FAIRDOM team + old PALs +new PALs (with food and drinks served)

April 17th ABION Spreebogen Hotel, Salon Bellevue

9:00 -9:15 Short introduction from funders (Christian Rückert, PtJ)

9:15 -10.00 Warming up FAIRDOM, FAIRDOMHub and openSEEK ...

Semantic web applications and tools for life science.

Since 2008, the SWAT4LS Workshop has provided a platform for the presentation and discussion of the benefits and limits of applying web-based information systems and semantic technologies in the domains of health care and life sciences. SWAT4LS will provide the same open and stimulating environment that has previously brought together researchers, developers, and users, from various fields including eHealth, biomedical and clinical informatics, ...

Best practices in research data management and stewardship training on 17 June 2021

Day 4. FAIRDOMHub and Zenodo Hands On Instructions (by Olga Krebs and Aleksey Kolodkin)

This is the fifth and final draft of the Recommendations and Guidelines from the RDA COVID-19 working group, and is open for public comment until 8th of June 2020. Following the open period, feedback will be considered and then the WG will seek endorsement of the document from the RDA governance bodies prior to final publication.