The EOSC-Life project resulted in the publication of nearly 200 peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed (preprints, reports) publications, plus 47 deliverables. In addition, EOSC-Life was able to provide important services to researchers of COVID-19 in response to EC/ERA requests. As such, EOSC-Life has been instrumental in delivering the European COVID-19 Data Portal. The work in the project delivery was organised around four goals:
1. Publish FAIR life science data resources in EOSC:
Here the LS RI data catalogue (
https://fairsharing.org/3513(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie)) was published and training and hackathons build capacity for cloud deployment of life sciences data. The data publishing and LS RI catalogue have formed the basis for future pandemic preparedness through the European COVID-19 Data Portal and the BY-COVID project, as well as supporting work towards the cancer mission in EOSC4Cancer. RO-Crate was adopted as a model for FAIR data Objects. Formal standards for Provenance Information Management (ISO 23494-1) and the Common Provenance Model (ISO 23494-2) provide a foundation for reproducibility and reusability of data within EOSC. EOSC-Life also supported the COVID-19 Data Portal (
https://www.covid19dataportal.org(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie)).
2. Provide policies, guidelines and a toolkit for secure and ethical data reuse:
The EOSC-Life sensitive data toolbox helps data providers make their sensitive data available for secondary use. This includes data access procedures, requirements for hosting/distributing and access control mechanisms for sensitive data (including Access and Benefit Sharing via Nagoya Protocol).
3. Populated an ecosystem of innovative life science tools in EOSC:
EOSC-Life established a EOSC-compatible roadmap to support and guide the development of cloud-based workflows by RIs and released WorkflowHub.eu a public registry for computational workflows. The EOSC-Life tools ecosystem has been adopted within other domains, e.g environmental sciences and astronomy. The LS Login system is fully operational (
https://lifescience-ri.eu/ls-login.html(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie)) and provides common authentication and authorization services for secure federated access in EOSC.
4. Enable data-driven research in Europe by connecting life scientists to EOSC via Open Calls for participation:
EOSC-Life organised Open Calls for data and user projects were successful with 11 external partnership projects selected from 91 applications. All user projects are now concluded with reports publicly available on the EOSC-Life website. Data, workflows and other digital research artefacts are deposited as FAIR digital objects in suitable repositories. A set of cloud providers and other services from within the LS RIs has been incorporated into the EOSC Marketplace. These services were used in the Open Calls.
The project also actively partnered across EOSC through interactions with the EOSC Governance and EOSC cluster projects. The links and understanding of EOSC was furthered by the activities of the EOSC-Life translator group building a cohort of LS RI staff able to translate between the data service needs of the involved RIs and the activities implemented within EOSC-Life.
