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Innovating integrated research at all levels of biological
organization: structuring the research process in virtual labs over
the entire life cycle of the activity
By: Christos Arvanitidis and Anstassios Oulas
Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture,
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Crete
Annual EGI Conference 06-08 Aprli 2016, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
LifeWatch - biodiversity is...
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LifeWatch - challenges (Questions)
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LifeWatch - challenges (Ifrastructure)
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LifeWatchGreece - What makes it?
• Human Network
• Physical Installations
• Equipment (mostly hardware)
• Software
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LifeWatchGreece - e-infrastructure
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Science Conceptual workflow
Repeatability
Observation
Pattern
recognition
Attribution
Data
(evidence)
Knowledge
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Experim
entation
Example: Community ecology vs
biomedicine workflow….
Ecology:
Pattern observed: f (species x stations ~ environmental vars x stations)
Biomedicine:
Pattern observed: f (phenomics (ind. x sickness) ~ genetic vars ~ environmental
vars)
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Example: Community ecology vs
biomedicine workflow….
Ecology:
Biomedicine:
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But how about if we start the real
integration in biology?
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But how about if we start the real
integration in biology? Example from IMGs
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And if we need to go way beyond….
LifeWatch - related ESFRIs challenges
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What might be the 10y challenges?
1. Brake the language barriers between disciplines and domains
(challenges in data, metadata, standards, protocols, ontologies)
2. Continue to produce the data we need (petabyte period will be short)
but not at the expense of quality….
3. Maximize access to information and data resources (data mining)
4. Create the workflows that can integrate data sources from different
disciplines and visualize them (challenges in analysis framework)
5. Seek for HPC sources that may handle these data (EGI, cloud) and their
analysis (challenges in hardware and computing capacity)
6. Create the framework for interpretation of the results
7. Create the “go-in-between” communities, starting from the “trading zones”:
a new era of polymaths or “encyclopedists”?
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How to communicate these 10y challenges?
1. This is the science universe that changes the way we currently operate
2. Communicate the challenges to the scientific community
3. Promote the challenges to the politicians and policy makers
4. Show how they can change the everyday life of the citizens
5. How to start?
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Thank you
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