1. West-Life
Chris Morris, STFC, UK

2. New challenges for structural biology
Combined techniques
not always acting as an expert
Small samples
Data noisy and incomplete
Deliver results to other life scientists
73% working on eukaryotic rather than prokaryotic systems
84% working on complexes rather than single gene products
Each research team routinely uses three-four different techniques
83% would use combined SB techniques more often if it was easier to get access to experimental facilities
73% of the cases found it hard to combine software tools for different techniques in integrated workflows

3. Why EUDAT? Raw experimental data -> reduced data -> structure
Large experimental facilities have own resource
small ones need help
Extensible
Reinvent nothing
Virtual folder view of research project

4. The expected future impact
Automatically record provenance metadata when data used
Challenge to develop new algorithms for combined techniques
Data volume:
Combined output of European SB facilities > LHC
XFEL will double it