Report of the second FAIRDOM foundry

Systems Biology Data Management Foundry WorkshopERASysAPP – ERA-Net on Systems Biology ApplicationsMonday, October 6, 2014, 11:00 h –19:15 h Tuesday, October 7, 2014, 9:00 h – 17:45 h

@ Studio Villa Bosch Heidelberg

Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 3569118 Heidelberg

FAIRDOM

• Findable• Accessible• Interoperable• Reusable

• Data• Operations• Models

Organisers & Participants

Organisers:• Carole Goble (U Manchester, FAIRDOM)• Wolfgang Müller (HITS Heidelberg, FAIRDOM)• Bernd Rinn (ETH Zürich, FAIRDOM)• Dagmar Waltemath (U Rostock)

Participants:35 people based in 5 nations: UK, USA, Germany, Switzerland, Slovenia

Topics

• Improve collaboration of Data Management (DM) practitioners

• Look at opportunities in current landscape– ESFRIs– Large projects– Move from systems bio to synthetic bio and

systems medicine• Move towards establishment of foundry

Concrete goals for the WS

• Better understanding of >1 systems you‘ve never seen before

• Generate ideas for cross-integration• Share ideas about sustainability• Form group of developers supported through

FAIRDOM• Contribution to ESFRI ISBE

– Needs?– What can the community provide?

Day 1: Talk by Neil Chue Hong

Software is • everywhere• long-lived• hard to define

All these matter:• Context• Reasons• People

Hugely inspirational talk. Large set of surprising examples and solution approaches. Software carpentry, cultivating contributors for long-term maintenance. Hiring hard for old projects...

Day 1: Show and tell sessions

Everybody sees systems presented by everyone elseStarting point for collaborationsBig topics: Docker, Galaxy + other workflow systems, data management adapting to changing data, semantics

Day 2: Discussions about landscape

• Highlight ESFRI infrastructures as central entry point for infrastructure as well as software/legal/business model/security advice

• ISBE as data integration facilitator, enabler, support broker

• People as community and problem solvers• Teaching: Towards common certificates

Outcomes & suggested improvements

• Outcome– Positive echo, participants report

• having seen new software • seeing new collaboration opportunities

– Public wiki for communication– Plan for next meeting (possibly Slovenia)

• Suggested improvements:– More time for overall workshop‚– Fewer, longer presentations in roughly same interactive format– More breaks for follow-up discussions– More information about other presentations

up-front– Means: More selection of talks

Next meetings

• We have funding for meetings held in Germany or UK. Foundry meetings can be part of this.

• To internationalize Foundry it would be desirable if we could use that funding in other countries, e.g. Slovenia.

• Very desirable would be funding for travel grants