Journal of Structural Biology: X (Jan 2019)
West-Life: A Virtual Research Environment for structural biology
- Chris Morris,
- Paolo Andreetto,
- Lucia Banci,
- Alexandre M.J.J. Bonvin,
- Grzegorz Chojnowski,
- Laura del Cano,
- José Marıa Carazo,
- Pablo Conesa,
- Susan Daenke,
- George Damaskos,
- Andrea Giachetti,
- Natalie E.C. Haley,
- Maarten L. Hekkelman,
- Philipp Heuser,
- Robbie P. Joosten,
- Daniel Kouřil,
- Aleš Křenek,
- Tomáš Kulhánek,
- Victor S. Lamzin,
- Nurul Nadzirin,
- Anastassis Perrakis,
- Antonio Rosato,
- Fiona Sanderson,
- Joan Segura,
- Joerg Schaarschmidt,
- Egor Sobolev,
- Sergio Traldi,
- Mikael E. Trellet,
- Sameer Velankar,
- Marco Verlato,
- Martyn Winn
Affiliations
- Chris Morris
- STFC, Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington, UK; Corresponding author.
- Paolo Andreetto
- INFN Padova Division, Italy
- Lucia Banci
- Magnetic Resonance Center, University of Florence, Italy
- Alexandre M.J.J. Bonvin
- Utrecht University, The Netherlands
- Grzegorz Chojnowski
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, c/o DESY, Notkestr. 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
- Laura del Cano
- National Center for Biotechnology, Spain
- José Marıa Carazo
- National Center for Biotechnology, Spain
- Pablo Conesa
- National Center for Biotechnology, Spain
- Susan Daenke
- Instruct-ERIC, Oxford, UK
- George Damaskos
- Division of Biochemistry, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Andrea Giachetti
- Magnetic Resonance Center, University of Florence, Italy
- Natalie E.C. Haley
- Instruct-ERIC, Oxford, UK
- Maarten L. Hekkelman
- Division of Biochemistry, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Philipp Heuser
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, c/o DESY, Notkestr. 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
- Robbie P. Joosten
- Division of Biochemistry, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Daniel Kouřil
- Masaryk University, Czech Republic
- Aleš Křenek
- Masaryk University, Czech Republic
- Tomáš Kulhánek
- STFC, Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington, UK
- Victor S. Lamzin
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, c/o DESY, Notkestr. 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
- Nurul Nadzirin
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Cambridge, UK
- Anastassis Perrakis
- Division of Biochemistry, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Antonio Rosato
- Magnetic Resonance Center, University of Florence, Italy
- Fiona Sanderson
- Instruct-ERIC, Oxford, UK
- Joan Segura
- National Center for Biotechnology, Spain
- Joerg Schaarschmidt
- Utrecht University, The Netherlands
- Egor Sobolev
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, c/o DESY, Notkestr. 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
- Sergio Traldi
- INFN Padova Division, Italy
- Mikael E. Trellet
- Utrecht University, The Netherlands
- Sameer Velankar
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Cambridge, UK
- Marco Verlato
- INFN Padova Division, Italy
- Martyn Winn
- STFC, Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington, UK
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 1
Abstract
The West-Life project (https://about.west-life.eu/) is a Horizon 2020 project funded by the European Commission to provide data processing and data management services for the international community of structural biologists, and in particular to support integrative experimental approaches within the field of structural biology. It has developed enhancements to existing web services for structure solution and analysis, created new pipelines to link these services into more complex higher-level workflows, and added new data management facilities. Through this work it has striven to make the benefits of European e-Infrastructures more accessible to life-science researchers in general and structural biologists in particular. Keywords: Structural biology, Virtual Research Environment, Cloud computing, Grid computing, Data management
