ELIXIR Node poster Norway 2014
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The Norway Node of ELIXIR will provide expertise and infrastructure focused on marine resources and medical research. It will address challenges in processing and analyzing data from next-generation sequencing and other high-throughput methods. The Node will collaborate with several Norwegian universities to provide genomic resources, tools, and training, with emphasis on marine genomics, biomedical analysis, and secure handling of personal health data.
ELIXIR Node poster Norway 2014
- 1. ELIXIR: The Norway Node ELIXIR's Norway Node will provide competence and infrastructure building on key areas for Norway, in particular marine resources and medical research. Challenges related to processing and analysis of data from next-generation sequencing and other high-throughput methods are important both to basic research in these areas, and to the development of new enterprises. The node will also provide training and support toward researchers. Collaborating organisations University of Bergen The coordinating partner of the Elixir Norway node. The main focus is on marine genomics and e-infrastructure. An early deliverable is LiceBase developed in tight collaboration withe the Sea Lice Research Centre. University of Oslo Emphasizes biomedical resource provision an analysis, leveraging public resources in integrative statistical genomics, with secure management of person sensitive data. Norwegian University of Life Sciences Main focus on providing genomic resources for species‐oriented and comparative fish genomics. Provision of web-based solutions for services, toolboxes, and computational access to these data. Norwegian University of Science and Technology Tools and resources for analysing genome data, with focus on gene regulation, non-protein-coding RNAs and epigenetics, but also bacterial genomics. Handling and analysis of data from human biobanks. University of Tromsø Tools and pipelines for analyzing metagenomic (and genomic) data, with a particular focus on taxonomic classification and bioprospecting (functional and metabolic potential). Marine research The Norwegian ELIXIR Node will provide services and resources toward marine genomics including researchers, government, and industry. The Norwegian Node will off several integrated packages geared towards large-scale analysis of marine genomic and metagenomic data (e.g. fish genomics and marine bioprospecting). This also includes provision of web-based solutions for services, toolboxes, and computational access to reference data provided by the ELIXIR infrastructure. Health and biobanks The Norway Node supports infrastructure for handling and analysis of data for medical research, including human biobanks. Such data may be sensitive, and must be stored with secure access. The node is developing infrastructure for sensitive data. Tools for data analysis are integrated into NeLS, the Norwegian e-infrastructure for life sciences. This provides user-friendly solutions for example for human re-sequencing data and other genome-scale analyses. © Trym Ivar Bergsmo / Samfoto / NTB Scanpix Contact Professor Inge Jonassen ELIXIR Norway Node Computational Biology Unit Department of Informatics University of Bergen, Norway Inge.Jonassen@ii.uib.no www.elixir-norway.org