EMBO Annual Report 04

CONTACT
Les Grivell
Programme Manager
Ole Hansen
Technical Officer
Anne Seller
Administrator
eip@embo.org
Les Grivell (seated),
Anne Seller and
Ole Hansen (right) are
EMBO’s contacts for the
Electronic Information
Programme.
EMBO
electronic information programme
Scientists use the web to read literature and find other information relevant to
their research. The Electronic Information Programme consists of three projects
that aim to ease the process of accessing and interlinking digital information.
The programme also provides technical support for other EMBO webbased
activities.
E-BioSci
E-BioSci is a unique literature and gene
search engine that integrates and interrelates
research literature in the life sciences
with data from different molecular
and genomic databases.
Developed by EMBO in collaboration with
a number of other European organisations
(see table opposite) and funded by the European
Community (EC), E-BioSci is a webbased
platform that enables users to access
and navigate a range of geographically distributed
molecular biology information
resources. 2004 saw the launch of two new
prototypes. The latest version, which has
been available since November 2004 and
includes improved cross-query and navigation
functionality, is now undergoing intensive
testing. The platform receives approximately
1,000 hits per day and has a global
user base of approximately 15,000.
www.e-biosci.org
www.embo.org/eip
ORIEL
The ORIEL project also pools the resources
of a network of European institutions (see
table opposite). Funded by the EC, the project
focuses on information management in
the life sciences and aims to provide
research communities with the tools to
access and navigate large, complex digital
datasets. Technology developed within the
project is being applied within E-BioSci.
ORIEL also offers stand-alone tools released
under Open Source licences to encourage
rapid adoption by user communities.
This year’s joint ORIEL/E-BioSci Annual
Workshop focused on web services in the
life sciences and brought together a number
of experts working in this area. The
meeting, which was held on October 12–15,
2004 at the Wellcome Trust’s Conference
Centre on the Hinxton Genome Campus,
was well attended and generated some
lively discussions.
www.oriel.org
E-BioSci partners
EMBO (co-ordination)
CINES France
CSIC Spain
DIMDI Germany
EBI-EMBL United Kingdom
EDINA United Kingdom
ingenta plc United Kingdom
INIST France
ORIEL partners
EMBO (co-ordination)
EUR The Netherlands
CINES France
CNR-IBC Italy
CNR-ITB Italy
CSIC Spain
EBI-EMBL United Kingdom
ICGEB Italy
IGH France
ingenta plc United Kingdom
INRIA France
LIRMM France
University of Montpellier France
University of Oxford United Kingdom
Life Sciences Mobility Portal
The Life Sciences Mobility Portal is a onestop
online service that provides information
on transnational career and training opportunities
in the life sciences. The portal
has been online since February 2004 and is
open to all scientists, irrespective of their location
or organisational affiliation. The project
is funded by the EC and linked to the
EC’s own Researcher’s Mobility Portal and
Science magazine’s Science Next Wave site.
In addition to the extensive online information
on the mobility of researchers, the Life
Sciences Mobility Portal also provides a
personal consultancy service with individual
advice on finding transnational funding
sources. So far, the user statistics show an
average of 2,000 users per month. The majority
of visits come from Western Europe
with a strongly increasing tendency from
Eastern and Central European countries.
http://mobility.embo.org
CONTACT
Sabine Rehberger-Schneider
Life Sciences Mobility Consultant
Laura Cortesi
Data Manager
mobility@embo.org
Sabine Rehberger-Schneider
(right) and Laura Cortesi (left) are
responsible for the Life Sciences
Mobility Portal.