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Published October 18, 2023 | Version 1.0
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Sustainability of FAIR Life Science Resources and Projects: the "BeSure" Recommendations from EOSC-Life Research Infrastructures

Authors/Creators

  • 1. ROR icon European Research Infrastructure on Highly Pathogenic Agents
  • 2. European Molecular Biology Laboratory
  • 3. University of Dundee
  • 4. ROR icon Instruct-ERIC
  • 5. EATRIS
  • 6. ROR icon Lygature
  • 7. VIB Data Core
  • 8. ROR icon VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology
  • 9. ROR icon Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources Research Infrastructure Consortium
  • 10. Flanders Marine Institute
  • 11. IBG2 Plant Sciences
  • 12. ROR icon IRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital
  • 13. ROR icon University of Manchester
  • 14. INFRAFRONTIER
  • 15. ROR icon TU Wien
  • 16. Universitat Freiburg
  • 17. ROR icon European Bioinformatics Institute
  • 18. ROR icon University of Ljubljana
  • 19. ROR icon Historic England
  • 20. ROR icon Euro-BioImaging ERIC
  • 21. CASEs Research Group
  • 22. ROR icon Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
  • 23. Université de Montpellier
  • 24. ROR icon Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement
  • 25. Institut Agro Montpellier
  • 26. Oxford eResearch Centre
  • 27. ROR icon Istituto Nazionale Biostrutture e Biosistemi
  • 28. Consiglio Nazionale Ricerche
  • 29. EATRIS ERIC
  • 30. ROR icon Universidad de Sevilla
  • 31. Istituto di Biochimica
  • 32. ROR icon The Alan Turing Institute
  • 33. ROR icon European Clinical Research Infrastructure Network
  • 34. ROR icon Inserm
  • 35. EuroBioImaging ERIC BioHub
  • 36. ROR icon Istituti di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico
  • 37. ROR icon University of Florence
  • 38. Universitat de Barcelona
  • 39. University of Helsinki
  • 40. ROR icon Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland
  • 41. ROR icon ELIXIR
  • 42. ELIXIR Hub
  • 43. ROR icon Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
  • 44. ROR icon University of Amsterdam
  • 45. Elixir Hub
  • 46. ITMP Drug Discovery

Description

Life Science (LS) communities must increase the sustainability of their data resources, software tools, and workflows so that the wider scientific community can re-use and make use of the available resources over the long-term, especially in future applications involving machine-based analyses. In this poster, we describe key findings from the EOSC-Life project in developing and establishing sustainable resources, tools and cloud based LS solutions. EOSC-Life brought 13 European LS Research Infrastructures together and laid the foundation for an open, digital and collaborative space for life sciences research. We describe organisational, technical, financial and legal/ethical challenges that represent the main barriers to sustainability in the LS domain. 

Building on lessons from 27 scientific projects selected and applying the "radical collaboration" method used in other Research Data Alliance publication (e.g. Pickering et al., 2021), we demonstrate the efficiency of the EOSC-Life support model for sustainable FAIR data management in a paper accepted in EMBO-Journal and explore complex sustainability needs including those associated with sensitive-data associated with sensitive- and industry-related data resources. We describe how best practices can be shared across disciplines and how this contributes to sustaining knowledge across communities by building training resources. 

Additionally, this poster presents lessons learned from the EOSC-Life project as a set of recommendations which emphasise working with experts and communicating outcomes to increase the credibility and recognition of research projects. Furthermore, demonstrating and practising these recommendations also permits a more sustainable adoption of reproducible research outputs. We have called these recommendations BeSURE  (BE SUstainable REcommendations ). The BeSURE recommendations include sustainable training methodologies and ensure high-quality metadata to drive the sustainable reusability of scientific objects. Rôles and responsibilities must be shared to ensure sovereignty, sustainable services and tools. Finally, our analysis shows how data harmonisation facilitates the interoperability of tools, data, and solutions and improves the understanding of concepts, functionalities and semantics in the life sciences.

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Journal article: 10.15252/embj.2023115008 (DOI)

Dates

Submitted
2023-10-18
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References

  • David, R., Rybina, A., Burel, J.-M., Heriche, J.-K., Audergon, P., Boiten, J.-W., Coppens, F., Crockett, S., Exter Katrina, Fahrener, S., Fratelli, M., Goble, C., Gormanns, P., Grantner, T., Gruning, B., Gurwitz, K. T., Hancock, J., Harmse, H., Holub, P., … Gribbon, P. (2023). In press: "Be Sustainable", Recommendations for FAIR Resources in Life Sciences research: EOSC-Life's Lessons. In EMBO Journal (XX). https://doi.org/10.15252/embj.2023115008