scholarly journals The Collaborative Potential of Research Infrastructures in Addressing Global Scientific Questions

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christos Arvanitidis ◽  
Richard Warwick ◽  
Paul Somerfield ◽  
Christina Pavloudi ◽  
Evangelos Pafilis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Data Access ◽  
Marine Species ◽  
Biological Information ◽  
Valid Species ◽  
Marine Biota ◽  
Taxonomic Distinctness ◽  
Micro Ct ◽  
European Research ◽  
Ecosystem Research ◽  
Research Infrastructures

Research Infrastructures (RIs) are facilities, resources and services used by scientists to perform research and support innovation. A number of EU research infrastructures [e.g. e-Science and Technology European Infrastructure for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research (LifeWatch) European Research Iinfrastructures Consortium (ERIC); The European life-sciences Infrastructure for biological Information (ELIXIR); the European Marine Biological Resource Centre (EMBRC ERIC); the European Research Infrastructure for Imaging Technologies in Biological and Biomedical Sciences (uroBioImaging ERIC)] have been building Virtual Research Environments (VREs), which include many virtual laboratories (vLabs) offering, one stop data access to scientists, high computational capacity and collaborative research platforms in support of the requirements of the digital science. This presentation gives examples on the use of the vLabs developed by LifeWatch ERIC which have subsequently been taken up as web services by other RIs. The RvLab operates on a high-performance computer cluster, and has been used in order to analyse various properties of taxon equality, with a focus on marine species. This taxonomic information on marine biota is organized and made publicly available through the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) that delivers more than 250,000 described valid species names. Although scientists consider an equal status (in terms of contribution to overall diversity) to each taxon used in taxonomy, biogeography, ecology and biodiversity, the question “are all taxa equal?” has never been tested at a global scale. We present evidence that this question can be addressed by applying relatedness indices (Taxonomic Distinctness) over the entire WoRMS metazoan tree. The virtual micro-CT laboratory (Micro-CT vLab), which can be used by the members of the scientific community interested in the digitisation methods and biological collections, makes the micro-CT data exploration of natural history specimens freely available over the internet. Micro-CT vLab makes it possible the online exploration and dissemination of micro-CT datasets, which are only rarely made available to the public due to their very large size and a lack of dedicated online platforms supporting the interactive manipulation of 3D data. Examples of how these vLabs can be used by other RIs are provided.

scholarly journals Research Infrastructures offer capacity to address scientific questions never attempted before: Are all taxa equal?

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christos D Arvanitidis ◽  
Richard M Warwick ◽  
Paul J Somerfield ◽  
Christina Pavloudi ◽  
Evangelos Pafilis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Marine Species ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Valid Species ◽  
Marine Biota ◽  
Taxonomic Distinctness ◽  
Virtual Laboratories ◽  
Biodiversity Science ◽  
Research Infrastructures ◽  
Taxonomic Research

Research Infrastructures (RIs) are facilities, resources and services used by the scientific community to conduct research and foster innovation. LifeWatch ERIC has developed various virtual research environments, which include many virtual laboratories (vLabs) offering high computational capacity and comprehensive collaborative platforms that supporting the needs of digital biodiversity science. Over its 250 years of history, the taxonomic research community has developed a system for describing, classifying and naming taxa across multiple levels. For the marine biota, taxonomic information is organized and made publicly available through the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) that records more than 250,000 described valid species. Although scientists tend to assign an equal status (in terms of contribution to overall diversity) to each taxon used in taxonomy, biogeography, ecology and biodiversity, the question “are all taxa equal?” has never been tested at a global scale. We present evidence that this question can be addressed by applying relatedness indices (Taxonomic Distinctness) over the entire WoRMS metazoan tree. The RvLab, developed by the LifeWatchGreece RI, operating on a high-performance computer cluster, has been used to meet the high computational demands required for such an analysis at a global scale.

scholarly journals Research Infrastructures offer capacity to address scientific questions never attempted before: Are all taxa equal?

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christos D Arvanitidis ◽  
Richard M Warwick ◽  
Paul J Somerfield ◽  
Christina Pavloudi ◽  
Evangelos Pafilis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Marine Species ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Valid Species ◽  
Marine Biota ◽  
Taxonomic Distinctness ◽  
Virtual Laboratories ◽  
Biodiversity Science ◽  
Research Infrastructures ◽  
Taxonomic Research

Research Infrastructures (RIs) are facilities, resources and services used by the scientific community to conduct research and foster innovation. LifeWatch ERIC has developed various virtual research environments, which include many virtual laboratories (vLabs) offering high computational capacity and comprehensive collaborative platforms that supporting the needs of digital biodiversity science. Over its 250 years of history, the taxonomic research community has developed a system for describing, classifying and naming taxa across multiple levels. For the marine biota, taxonomic information is organized and made publicly available through the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) that records more than 250,000 described valid species. Although scientists tend to assign an equal status (in terms of contribution to overall diversity) to each taxon used in taxonomy, biogeography, ecology and biodiversity, the question “are all taxa equal?” has never been tested at a global scale. We present evidence that this question can be addressed by applying relatedness indices (Taxonomic Distinctness) over the entire WoRMS metazoan tree. The RvLab, developed by the LifeWatchGreece RI, operating on a high-performance computer cluster, has been used to meet the high computational demands required for such an analysis at a global scale.

scholarly journals Research Infrastructures offer capacity to address scientific questions never attempted before: Are all taxa equal?

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christos D Arvanitidis ◽  
Richard M Warwick ◽  
Paul J Somerfield ◽  
Christina Pavloudi ◽  
Evangelos Pafilis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Marine Species ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Valid Species ◽  
Marine Biota ◽  
Taxonomic Distinctness ◽  
Virtual Laboratories ◽  
Biodiversity Science ◽  
Research Infrastructures ◽  
Taxonomic Research

Research Infrastructures (RIs) are facilities, resources and services used by the scientific community to conduct research and foster innovation. LifeWatch ERIC has developed various virtual research environments, which include many virtual laboratories (vLabs) offering high computational capacity and comprehensive collaborative platforms that supporting the needs of digital biodiversity science. Over its 250 years of history, the taxonomic research community has developed a system for describing, classifying and naming taxa across multiple levels. For the marine biota, taxonomic information is organized and made publicly available through the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) that records more than 250,000 described valid species. Although scientists tend to assign an equal status (in terms of contribution to overall diversity) to each taxon used in taxonomy, biogeography, ecology and biodiversity, the question “are all taxa equal?” has never been tested at a global scale. We present evidence that this question can be addressed by applying relatedness indices (Taxonomic Distinctness) over the entire WoRMS metazoan tree. The RvLab, developed by the LifeWatchGreece RI, operating on a high-performance computer cluster, has been used to meet the high computational demands required for such an analysis at a global scale.

scholarly journals TOP Research Infrastructures in Hungary 2021 : TOP Research Infrastructures in Hungary and their Embeddedness in the European Research Infrastructure Landscape

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
International Research ◽  
Research Infrastructure ◽  
European Research ◽  
Research Cooperation ◽  
Excellent Research ◽  
Research Infrastructures ◽  
Research Facilities

The publication showcases fifty-two excellent research infrastructures and infrastructure clusters in Hungary, furthermore it introduces five up-and-coming emerging research facilities. The purpose of the publication is, by demonstrating the services and activities of our top-of-the-line research infrastructures to potential international partners, to enhance international research-cooperation.

GERI – The emerging Global Ecosystem Research Infrastructure

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaana Bäck ◽  
Werner Kutsch ◽  
Michael Mirtl
Keyword(s):  
Global Economy ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Anthropogenic Activities ◽  
Research Infrastructure ◽  
Ecological Processes ◽  
Unique Challenge ◽  
Ecosystem Research ◽  
Decadal Scale ◽  
Research Infrastructures ◽  
Access To Data

<p>Ecosystem Research Infrastructures around the world have been designed, constructed, and are now operational as a distributed effort. The common goal is to address research questions that require long-term ecosystem observations and other service components at national to continental scales, which cannot be tackled in the framework of single and time limited projects.  By design, these Research Infrastructures capture data and provide a wider range of services including access to data and well instrumented research sites. The coevolution of supporting infrastructures and ecological sciences has developed into new science disciplines such as macrosystems ecology, whereby large-scale and multi-decadal-scale ecological processes are being explored. </p><p>Governments, decision-makers, researchers and the public have all recognized that the global economy, quality of life, and the environment are intrinsically intertwined and that ecosystem services ultimately depend on resilient ecological processes. These have been altered and threatened by various components of Global Change, e.g. land degradation, global warming and species loss. These threats are the unintended result of increasing anthropogenic activities and have the potential to change the fundamental trajectory of mankind.  This creates a unique challenge never before faced by society or science—how best to provide a sustainable economic future while understanding and globally managing a changing environment and human health upon which it relies.</p><p>The increasing number of Research Infrastructures around the globe now provides a unique and historical opportunity to respond to this challenge. Six major ecosystem Research Infrastructures (SAEON/South Africa, TERN/Australia, CERN/China, NEON/USA, ICOS/Europe, eLTER/Europe) have started federating to tackle the programmatic work needed for concerted operation and the provisioning of interoperable data and services. This Global Ecosystem Research Infrastructure (GERI) will be presented with a focus on the involved programmatic challenges and the GERI science rationale.</p>

scholarly journals Community curation of bioinformatics software and data resources

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 1697-1705 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon Ison ◽  
Hervé Ménager ◽  
Bryan Brancotte ◽  
Erik Jaaniso ◽  
Ahto Salumets ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Biological Information ◽  
Scientific Communities ◽  
Bioinformatics Software ◽  
Research Infrastructures ◽  
Community Curation ◽  
Comprehensive Registry

Abstract The corpus of bioinformatics resources is huge and expanding rapidly, presenting life scientists with a growing challenge in selecting tools that fit the desired purpose. To address this, the European Infrastructure for Biological Information is supporting a systematic approach towards a comprehensive registry of tools and databases for all domains of bioinformatics, provided under a single portal (https://bio.tools). We describe here the practical means by which scientific communities, including individual developers and projects, through major service providers and research infrastructures, can describe their own bioinformatics resources and share these via bio.tools.

scholarly journals Electronic Research Infrastructure for Bulgarian Medieval Written Heritage: history and perspectives

Diacronia ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna-Maria Totomanova
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Research Infrastructure ◽  
European Research ◽  
Southeastern Europe ◽  
Research Infrastructures ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Challenges

The paper traces the history of the Histdict system, which turned into a basis for the new Electronic Research Infrastructure for Bulgarian Medieval Written Heritage, which was included into the National Research Roadmap at the end of 2020. Through this act the state declares its support to our resources, that have been so far created and supported by project funding. And of course, it is a big recognition of our efforts and achievements. On the other hand, this act coincided with two other events: the inclusion of RESILIENCE (Research Infrastructure on Religious Studies) in which Histdict is taking part, in the European Research Infrastructures Roadmap and the start of the updating and upgrading of the system. Given the situation the Infrastructure is now facing new challenges—not only the successful improvement of the services it offers, but also the inclusion of the Orthodox Cultural Heritage into European research exchange, which will promote and popularize the history and culture of Southeastern Europe.

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