Tasks
The FELICS project is composed of a set of tasks - Joint Research Activities (jra), Networking Activities (na), and Transnational Access (ta). Joint Research Activities will facilitate development of the biomolecuar databases. Networking Activities will facilitate project management, support for personnel exchanges, and training/outreach. Transnational Access will encompass web access to all the EBI data and services, including FELICS-funded resources. At the EBI, the FELICS coordinator (assisted by a Scientfic Project Officer) will be responsible for the management tasks and for all interactions which cut across discrete activities such as joint research activities and network activities. The individuals with direct responsibilities for activities and deliverables will form the management team, along with the coordinator and the principle investigators from all partners.
| Task | Description and specific objectives of the task | Participants | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Networking Activities | |||
| na01 | Management of the I3 | 0versight of activities, tasks and deliverables. Reporting, financial management and guidance procedures. | EBI, SIB, TUBS, EPO |
| na02 | Exchanges of personnel | Extended visits between partner sites of technical staff in response to demanding challenges as they arise. | EBI, SIB, TUBS, EPO |
| na03 | Outreach | Training workshops and roadshows, publicity and documentation, web tutorials. | EBI, SIB, TUBS, EPO |
| Transnational Access Activities | |||
| ta01 | Access to EBI | Web access to all the data and services of the EBI. | EBI |
| Joint Research Activities | |||
| jra01 | Technical Development and Curation of Genome Reviews | Maintaining a database of complete sequences of chromosomes and plasmids, distributed in flat files and relational format. | EBI, SIB |
| jra02 | Development of Integr8 web portal and database | A web-based portal combining data from many sources such as the UniProt Knowledgebase (UniProtKB), InterPro, CluSTr, GO, HOGENOM and the European Macromolecular Structure Database. This portal is based on the central dogma of biology, reflecting the relationships between genes, transcripts and proteins. | EBI, SIB |
| jra03 | IntAct protein-protein interaction data resource | The IntAct infrastructure currently represents a fully functional and highly portable, open source protein interaction database and analysis system. It will be maintained and enhanced. | EBI, SIB |
| jra04 | Microarray data acquisition infrastructure and repository | Development of a novel data acquisition and management infrastructure is to enable submission of large scale experiments and develop ArrayExpress into a full production grade service. | EBI |
| jra05 | Microarray data management and building gene expression knowledge-base | Managing, curating, annotating, mining, analysing and summarizing submitted gene expression data with the goal of building the gene expression knowledgebase. | EBI |
| jra06 | Dictionary of Chemical Compounds | ChEBI is a public database for biologically relevant "small compounds" (molecules not encoded by the genome). It will be extended, enhanced, and cross-referenced. | EBI, EPO |
| jra07 | Structure Deposition, Curation and Annotation | Processing and curating data submitted to the Macromolecular Structure Database and enhancing the curation methods | EBI, EPO |
| jra08 | MSD query/result visualisation | Development of enhanced query systems for macromolecular structure data. | EBI, EPO |
| jra09 | MSD Integration | Integration of MSD data and SIB data with other data sources and maintenance of the links to these data. | EBI, SIB |
| jra10 | Improved enzyme annotation | Enhancement of enzyme information by manual annotation, phylogenetic analysis, exploitation of rules, and literature screening. | EBI, SIB |
| jra11 | GPSDB | Avoiding confusing use of different synonyms in the nomeclature of gene/protein entities by maintaining a synonym database. | EBI, SIB |
| jra12 | BRENDA enzyme properties and functions | Maintaining a comprehensive database of enzyme and metabolic information. | EBI, TUBS |
| jra13 | The BRENDA computing tools (e.g. query engine, ligand data and text mining) | Building the ligand database and the web portal for BRENDA. | EBI, TUBS |
| jra14 | Patent Sequence database, detection, capture and annotation of sequences | Extraction and annotation of sequence data in the patent literature. | EBI, EPO |
| jra15 | Development and dissemination of standards | Developing an agreed XML DTD to be used in sequence bearing patents and promoting its use in the patent offices. | EBI, SIB, TUBS, EPO |
