GDI D5.3 - Third annual report on coordination and outreach

This report describes the coordination and outreach activities performed by work package 5, and collaborating work packages, since D5.2—Second annual report on coordination and outreach1, towards the establishment of a federated infrastructure for access to genomic and associated phenotypic data.

Over the reporting period (01/10/2024 - 01/10/2025) existing coordination and communication methods have been changed to address issues and risks that have been identified, which includes:

• Establishment of a prioritized and limited list of features that will be worked on in order to focus the attention of all participants in the project on achieving maximum value.
• Prioritization of components needed by the Genome of Europe project, which is expected to deliver the first data into the infrastructure that GDI builds.
• Step-wise realisation of the infrastructure, in an agile fashion, by synchronization of small steps in the realisation of the node deployments.
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At the start of the reporting period milestone 8 was achieved, which required the planning of a demonstrable user story and associated coordination with work package 3 and participating nodes. After the achievement of milestone 8, the technical planning has focused on establishing a fixed set of technical capabilities that is to be rolled out over all operational nodes by the end of the project, this was named the February Feature Freeze, FFF and defines the maximally attainable product (MAP) of the Pillar II activities in GDI. This MAP can then be used to be linked to the business capabilities as defined by Pillars I & III, as well as 1+MG, to identify any gaps and hence mitigation strategies.

In terms of outreach, GDI, as a driver project of GA4GH, has been represented at GA4GH meetings, and in the GA4GH Steering Committee. GDI carefully collaborates with the Genome of Europe (GoE) project, to which GDI will form the basis of their technical infrastructure, and conversely the GoE data will be the first real data that will be added in many GDI countries to the infrastructure. GDI also has helped define the B1MGplus project that will lead to the incorporation of the legal person that will run the operational Human genomics infrastructure for 1+MG and in the mean time will facilitate the operation of the 1+MG working groups. To maximise the impact of GDI, and realise the vision of interconnected domain specific data spaces, GDI has continued to participate and collaborate with other infrastructures and projects, both at European and global level, to ensure that the solutions being developed and deployed by GDI are interoperable with these other infrastructures and projects. Within 1+MG, we also intensified collaboration with the Genome of Europe project (GoE) that is now active, as well as interaction with the new B1MGplus project.