Objective
Much of the current effort in functional genomics, and our understanding of the biology of human disease, is underpinned by informatics infrastructures served by the scattered collection of relevant databases which exists in Europe. This infrastructure is essential for the support of a European Research Area in functional genomics and failure to integrate and sustain these databases will have deleterious effects on research competitiveness. The proposed action will focus on co-ordination and integration of databases set up in support of FP5 and FP6 projects containing experimental data, including sequences, and material resources such as biological collections, relevant to the use of the mouse as a model organism for human disease. Interoperability of disseminated databases potentially provides enormous synergy in the provision, integration and analysis of a wide range of data with concomitant added value for research projects. Having set standards and benchmarks the proposed action will then reach out to co-ordinate other European and International databases and consult with the Community. The long term sustainability of databases depends on their usefulness and ability to add value to scientific research. We will examine funding models in use inside and outside Europe and the usefulness of models already adopted successfully by material resource collections. In addition we will examine the impediments to scientific and financial sustainability caused by intellectual property issues (IPR), particularly for Industry. The project will deliver a series of scientific meetings, reports and scientific papers concerning the state of databases supporting mouse functional genomics in Europe, and will recommend a feasible and widely applicable model for their interoperability and sustainability which takes into account the scientific and financial barriers which must be overcome.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesgenetics
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdatabases
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Call for proposal
FP6-2005-LIFESCIHEALTH-6
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Funding Scheme
CA - Coordination actionCoordinator
CAMBRIDGE
United Kingdom