Tech Day Intro July 4 2012

Peter Kunszt

News and Updates

News and Updates

Reports and Proposals

6th Call, our role

How to evaluate SyBIT

Situation 2013-2016

New webpage www.sybit.net

Wiki migration to 4.2

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Immediate Reports

Scientific Report is due now (July 15)I am assembling it and will send the draft to sybit-all for comments by this Friday

SyBIT needs to put in a project plan for SNSF and SEB for 2013-2016 (End August)

I am assembling that as well and will send it first to the coordinators and then to all in July-August

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RTD Data Publication Plan

SNSF requested a plan from the RTDs to publish their research data

SyBIT can help in this with technology and support – sustained publication as well

But at least SyBIT should be informed of these – our job is to aim for some consistency and we may have to support published data services

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SystemsX.ch 6th Call

6th call for RTD projects is out now, deadline August 25

Expect 10 new projects by Jan. 1st for us to support

Expect ~5 of the current 8 1st-round RTDs to continue and 5 new RTDs

I have promised assistance during proposal writing already, expect requests in the first 3 weeks of August!

Assess what can we do in SyBIT for the RTD

Assess what they should request from SystemsX.ch

In average we have 0.9 FTEs per project for 2013-2016. NO HARDWARE THIS TIME! (OC)

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Assessment Guidelines

SyBIT does non-competitive stuffWe do not compete on scientific systems biology publications with the scientists we support (obvious but needs to be restated)

They should plan for bioinformatics research, new algorithms and models

We can provide infrastructure interfaces, data management, automation, basic statistics and visualization, standardized bioinformatics analysis

The borderline is a broad grey strip! An individual person might do both, that is not a contradiction!

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SyBIT evaluation metrics

SNSF has requested input on how to evaluate SyBIT – last time the metrics were wrong

Suggested new metrics – please commentDirect acknowledgements, co-authorships, own publications and citations

Number of successfully concluded projects

Number of researchers that interact with SyBIT

Software and services developed and documented

The number of services in operation and their usage

Infrastructure provided to SystemsX.ch researchers through SyBIT

Education activities by SyBIT

Standards being developed, used and promoted

Sustained contribution acquired by partner institutions

3rd party funding and industrial collaborations

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SEB Interaction

SEB also regularly forgets what SyBIT isMembers change and they also forget

Repeat our mission to them (I have prepared a set of guidelines, you will receive those as well)

There is no SyBIT management boardEven Ron forgot that we agreed to discontinue it

There were simply no difficult items to decide on

SEB can take on the role of supervising SyBIT without too much effort

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Funding 2013-2016

Less than for 2012! But we will need to support more projects!

So: no more infrastructure funding, only people. We can help in getting the money.

Continue to improve efficiency

Motivate institutions to start paying for support personnel like us, we need to be sustained by the end of 2016!

Is your job safe? Mostly yes..Decision on new projects will only be communicated on December 16!!! So I will try to keep everyone as is, hoping for the best.

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Efficiency

We need to come back to the idea of ‘short projects’ :

Be able to do periodic reprioritization

Be able to put things on hold for a short period

3 months reporting and project reviews

No limit on ‘extensions’ but need to plan next 3 months again

Remain fully transparent, more communication to SEB and Pis

Agree on SAME documentation and communication channels in Lausanne, Zurich and Basel !

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Improving Webpage SyBIT.net

Being revamped to show software we do, link to the relevant download sites

I will contact you for text and images, just respond to email please

This is the public face of SyBIT, which people can refer to also in publications

Can link to project individual pages (like MorphoGraphX.org) and of course Expasy

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