Industry Programme Manager, clark@ebi.ac.uk. Introduction to the second day & overview of ELIXIR Industry Stakeholders report Dominic Clark, Industry Programme Manager, clark@ebi.ac.uk. http://www.ebi.ac.uk/industry

ELIXIR – European life sciences infrastructure for biological information To build a sustainable European infrastructure for biological information supporting life science research and its translation to: medicine, the environment, the bioindustries, and society 32 participants in 13 countries 16.11.2018

Sector of your organization Academic/Non-profit (516) Industry/Commercial/SME (61) Response frequency = % of answering respondents (i.e. 577) 16.11.2018

Select your country of location Response frequency = % of answering respondents (i.e. 60) India - USA 16.11.2018

Importance of long-term sustainability of European bioinformatics infrastructures according to sector Response frequency = % of answering respondents (as indicated for each sector category) . Total number of answering respondents considered for this cross analysis was 564. 16.11.2018

We use bioinformatics databases in order to Multiple answer options – Response frequency = % of answering respondents (i.e. 60) 16.11.2018

My group is most interested in the following biological data Multiple answer options – Response frequency = % of answering respondents (i.e. 59) 16.11.2018

Important databases according to sector Useful Essential Multiple answer options - Answering respondents = 619 EMBL/GenBank/Entrez Nucleotide UniProt/ Swiss-Prot/TrEMBL/Entrez Protein 16.11.2018

What database developments are needed in the future? Multiple answer options were authorized. Response frequency = % of answering respondents (i.e. 46). 16.11.2018

How important would the following be for your group? Not relevant Essential Tool resources (response count) - Answering respondents = 61 16.11.2018

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Position Statement A pan European informatics infrastructure and associated services are considered essential to support the European knowledge economy. This will not be achieved efficiently if such infrastructure were to be based on uncoordinated and disconnected national infrastructure efforts. This pan-European infrastructure should be attained through a well managed and maintained, service oriented, scalable, consumer focused delivery framework. It is essential for Elixir to deliver on these goals, requiring the adoption of a service culture by this project, to ensure a sustained return on investment to both academic and industrial experimental research in the EU. 16.11.2018

ELIXIR Industry Stakeholders’ recommendations Develop robust and scalable life science service infrastructure of enterprise quality, supported by transparent service level agreements defining outages, updates, performance, access levels and user training & support (etc). Deliver infrastructure to comprise of ‘service components’ that include data, APIs, GUIs, search & analysis tools and training delivered to agreed process, syntactic and semantic standards. Uphold the principle of unrestricted, open access to data and supported core analysis tools via web interface, programmatic and download methods. Together with industry stakeholders, Elixir should explore sustainable business models for open access to all Elixir services for all consumers. 16.11.2018

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SME Meeting Agenda 4rd September 2009 09.00 Introduction to the second day & overview of ELIXIR Industry Stakeholders report (Dominic Clark, EMBL-EBI) 09.10 EMBL-EBI Literature Services and Applications (Jo McEntyre, Head of Literature Services, EMBL-EBI) 09.40 EMBL-EBI Patent related services (Jennifer McDowell, EMBL-EBI). 10.10 EPO Services and Resources for SMEs and the FELICS project (Stephane Nauche, European Patent Office) 10.30 Patent Information (http://www.epo.org/patents/patent-information/about.html), The European Patent Office Open Patent Services Nigel Clarke (European Patent Office, Austria) 11.00 COFFEE 11.30 Patent Information: esp@cenet (http://www.espacenet.com) Nigel Clarke (European Patent Office, Austria) 12.00 How the EPO searches prior art in Biotech; European Patent Academy and dissemination of knowledge (Titus Vogt, European Patent Office) 12.30 Cheminformatics resources and services at EBI (Paula de Matos, EMBL-EBI). 12.55 Patent and Licensing Management (Angela Siegling) 13.05 Wrap up and discussion (Pascal Kahlem, EMBL-EBI) 13.20 LUNCH and end of meeting 16.11.2018

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Acknowledgements The workshop is sponsored by a number of EU projects coordinated by EMBL-EBI that are targeted to provide bioinformatics tools and data resources for European research. These include: ENFIN NoE EMBRACE NoE CALBC project SLING project (formally FELICS) ELIXIR project We would like to thank everyone involved in the preparation of the agenda (Pascal Kahlem, Nina Sallacz, Stéphane Nauche, Holly Edwards) We would like to thank all the speakers. We are grateful to AWS (Nina Sallacz and colleagues) for their support and for hosting the meeting. 16.11.2018