Providing an environment where every data-driven researcher will thrive Professor Carole Goble University of Manchester, UK

Pipelines –Scientific workflows over (web) services –Data pipelines, model population and validation, simulation sweeps –Distributed, federated datasets and analyses combined with local datasets and analysis –Opening up resources. e-Laboratories –Crowd-sourcing, group curating and sharing/reusing scientific assets. –Web 2.0 and Semantic Web. –Social networking, community content, collaborative filtering –Sharing and exchanging “Research Objects” –Opening up capabilities and capacity.

Pan European collaboration. Systems Biology of Microorganisms 13 projects, 91 institutes –Different research outcomes –A cross-section of microorganisms, incl. bacteria, archaea and yeast. Record and describe the dynamic molecular processes occurring in microorganisms by computerized mathematical models. –Modellers meet experimentalists Pool research capacities, data, models and know-how. Retrospectively. BaCell-SysMO COSMIC SUMO KOSMOBAC SysMO-LAB PSYSMO Valla MOSES TRANSLUCENT STREAM SulfoSYS + two more

Data-driven Multiple ‘omics –genomics, transcriptomics –proteomics, metabolomics Images, Reaction Kinetics Models Data sets + experiments + models –SBML, Agent-based, Mechanics based Analysis of data

Systems biology workflows in MCISB

High throughput experimental methods Public data sets (e.g. EBI) Web Services ~ 1400 NAR January Issue Little databases Lab books Spreadsheets Private and Shared. Proliferation Derived data Long tail. Little Data

My Datasets My Analytics Big Data Group Science Data services “Little” Data “Local” Science Publish Access

Massive decentralisation – wikis, sticks, spreadsheets Massive centralisation – commons, clouds, curated core facilities Tremendous fragility Digital Dust in Data Tombs

Picking Pain Points. Keeping it Real. Project Directors –Data remains with us under our control. –We control who sees what. –Just enough exchange. SysMO PALs –Spreadsheets. –Yellow Pages. –Standard Operating Procedures.

An education Modellers vs Experimentalists Computational thinking Systems thinking

Gray‘s Laws (modified) Working Now, Working to working –Gateways and ramps –Jam today, jam tomorrow –Just enough, just in time –Work with what you got already 20 questions –Is there any group generating kinetic data? –Is this data available? –Who is working with which organism? –What methods are been used to determine enzyme activity? –Under which experimental conditions are my partners working on for the measurement of glucose concentration? ? ? ? ?

Help people search for and find stuff Data Services Processes Models Software Experts

SysMO SEEK Assets Catalogue. Archive. Social Network. Sharing Space. Gateway. Yellow Pages –People. Expertise. Projects. Institutions. Facilities. Studies. Data –Experimental data sets and analysed results. –Gateway to data stores – SABIO-RK, ‘omics Models –Store. Stimulate. Publish. Curate. –Gateway to COPASI, JWS Online, BioModels. Processes –Laboratory protocols – Standard Operating Procedures –Bioinformatics analyses – computational workflows - Taverna –Model population and validation – workflows – Taverna –Gateway to myExperiment, MolMeth, OpenWetWare…. Interlinking ASSETS CATALOGUE

Linking data to process Standard Operating Procedures Models Software Provenance The Lab Book Retrospective method reconstruction The myth of reproducible science

Scientists willing to share methods and protocols. SOPs an early win. Defined standard metadata model based on Nature Protocols. Seeded.

Linking data with stuff Research Objects for packaging and exchanging Assets –Workflows linked to models linked to data linked to SOPs –Encapsulate community standards –Mixed resources: External and central. –Trust –“Preservation Packet” –Bechhofer et al 2010 forthcoming in The Future of The Web for Collaborative Science SBRML –Systems Biology Results Markup Language –To tie to the SBML

At the coal-face The Spreadsheet. The Content Management Systems. Legacy assets are assets. Metadata ramps.

The Content Management System Lightweight and flexible. Low take-on, hidden operations costs. Knowledgeable Civilians. Looks nice. Anarchy amenable.

Spreadsheets Template distribution Template mapping SysMOLab

Everyone wants metadata. No one wants to collect it. Standards mayhem Metadata millstones Most data is thrown away. Metadata for my sake Metadata compliance by stealth Preparation for publishing

CIMRCIMR Core Information for Metabolomics Reporting MIABEMIABE Minimal Information About a Bioactive Entity MIACAMIACA Minimal Information About a Cellular Assay MIAMEMIAME Minimum Information About a Microarray Experiment MIAME/EnvMIAME/Env MIAME / Environmental transcriptomic experiment MIAME/NutrMIAME/Nutr MIAME / Nutrigenomics MIAME/PlantMIAME/Plant MIAME / Plant transcriptomics MIAME/ToxMIAME/Tox MIAME / Toxicogenomics MIAPAMIAPA Minimum Information About a Phylogenetic Analysis MIAPARMIAPAR Minimum Information About a Protein Affinity Reagent MIAPEMIAPE Minimum Information About a Proteomics Experiment MIAREMIARE Minimum Information About a RNAi Experiment MIASEMIASE Minimum Information About a Simulation Experiment MIENSMIENS Minimum Information about an ENvironmental Sequence MIFlowCytMIFlowCyt Minimum Information for a Flow Cytometry Experiment MIGenMIGen Minimum Information about a Genotyping Experiment MIGSMIGS Minimum Information about a Genome Sequence MIMIxMIMIx Minimum Information about a Molecular Interaction Experiment MIMPPMIMPP Minimal Information for Mouse Phenotyping Procedures MINIMINI Minimum Information about a Neuroscience Investigation MINIMESSMINIMESS Minimal Metagenome Sequence Analysis Standard MINSEQEMINSEQE Minimum Information about a high-throughput SeQuencing Experiment MIPFEMIPFE Minimal Information for Protein Functional Evaluation MIQASMIQAS Minimal Information for QTLs and Association Studies MIqPCRMIqPCR Minimum Information about a quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction experiment MIRIAMMIRIAM Minimal Information Required In the Annotation of biochemical Models MISFISHIEMISFISHIE Minimum Information Specification For In Situ Hybridization and Immunohistochemistry Experiments STRENDASTRENDA Standards for Reporting Enzymology Data TBCTBC Tox Biology Checklist BioPAX : Biological Pathways Exchange FuGE Functional Genomics Experiment MGED: Microarray Experimental Conditions MIBBI: Minimum Information for Biological and Biomedical Investigations Minimum Information Models 63% 47%

Just Enough Results Model Harvest standards e.g. MIAME (MIBBI.org) Analyse consortium schemas and spreadsheets JERMs for each data type – microarray, metabolomics, proteomics.... Map project data sources to JERMs. Distribute JERM spreadsheet templates “I only want to collect and share just enough results”

JERM Spreadsheets Templates Controlled vocabulary plug in RDF for ripping, mashing and comparing spreadsheets. A little semantics goes a long way

Reward curation Local curation at the point of capture – ISA-TAB for ‘omics. Centralised curation – SBML, CellML, SBO Automated curation. Which data is worth curating?

Blue-Collar Science. Curator Credit Curator Career Funding. Personal and institutional visibility Scholarly citation metrics Federate workloads Unpopular with the big data providers.

Commons-based Quality Control.

Progressive Curation: “lazy evaluation” metadata Just enough, Just in time Jam today and Jam tomorrow Gain Pain Very BAD Good, but Unlikely Just right

Sensitive sharing. Collaborate to compete Good reasons not to. Just enough just in time sharing. Data kept at host. Registered centrally through harvesting. Pre-Publication sharing vs Publication

Competitive advantage. Academic vanity. Adoption. Reputation. Scrutiny. Being scooped. Misinterpretation. Reputation. Legal issues. Rewards Risks Nature 461, 145 (10 September 2009) | doi: /461145a

Access Permissions Just Enough Sharing Reusing myExperiment

Reward sharing and reusing not reinventing. Technically. Culturally. Institutionally. Credit and Risk Mitigation.

Attribution. Trust. Credit Reward and Provenance Reusing myExperiment

Some pretty key things Data citation Stable and shared ids and names –A nightmare. –Sharednames.org –Biosharing.org Versioning and Provenance –Models, software, data sets –Ensembl web service doesn’t report version number.

Data commons, Data havens For data after the project has ended. For the common good or me. Tidy and untidy data. Beth’s Provenance Objects Bio2RDF

Access and availability of data and data analysis resources Web services underpin the ESFRI ELIXIR programme. Interfaces that are understandable and stable. Designed for people too. No access, no tools, no point (Keith Haines) Deposition to community databanks that minimise pain.

What is it? Is it working?

Data analysis, model population and data pipelining ramps. Crossing the adoption chasm There is a world of complexity for data preparation, processing and analysis Science Informatics Sweatshops. E-Laboratories. Workflows. Portals. Pre-cooked processes and process templates. Pre-cooked interfaces. Training.

MicroArray from tumor tissue Microarray preProcessing Lymphoma prediction Lymphoma Prediction Workflow Wei Tan Univ. Chicago Ack. Juli Klemm, Xiaopeng Bian, Rashmi Srinivasa (NCI) Jared Nedzel (MIT) caArray GenePattern Use gene- expression patterns associated with two lymphoma types to predict the type of an unknown sample.

myExperiment Communities Supermarket shoppers Tool builders Trainers and Trainees

Drop and Compute Local folder synchronised and shared via cloud Condor job submitted by drag and drop Results appear in Dropbox Ian Cottam

Bashing against local IT NO – you can’t access that datastore / run your analysis. Joined up thinking.

Data + Publications Data trapped in documents Supplemental information Text mining Text mining workflows Text mining to find method and controls

Reflect. Elsevier Challenge Winner 2009

Manual and Auto-mark up [Oscar-3]

Do not underestimate the power of Interactive Visualisation and Browsing Pre-cooked complex queries. Navigation. With my data. At the click of a button.

Distributed Annotation Service Upload and overlay my data

SysMO summary Providing an environment where every data-driven researcher will thrive Reality is messy. –Extreme Technology Determinism vs Voluntarist Sociocultural shaping Extreme and continuous partnership with users. –Act Local Think Global Agile development environment facilitated stream of features to tackle pain points. –Leverage other e-Laboratories, Maintaining scientists’ buy-in. Socio-Political Axis dominates the Technical Axis. –Collaboration evolutions, Confidence in exchange.

Coordination Sustainability Interoperability Adoption Capacity Data Six Action Plan Areas

Capacity building of our skills base Influence training and capacity building programmes. Promote training for young and mid-career researchers and research technologists. Enable mixed skilled research teams to include research and information technologists. Value and reward highly skilled research and information technologists within HE institutions with a career structure.

Data Silo culture Funding silos Discipline silos

Academic Credit and Risk Mitigation for sharing, curating, and reusing not reinventing

Data and Software is free like puppies are free

University of Stellenbosch, South Africa University of Manchester, UK Jacky Snoep EML Research gGmbH, Germany Isabel Rojas University of Manchester, UK Olga Krebs Wolfgang Müller Sergejs Aleksejevs Carole Goble Stuart Owen Katy Wolstencroft Finn Bacal

Links myGrid Project – SysMO-DB – myExperiment – Taverna – JWS Online – SABIO-RK –