NFDI Life Science Consortia – Supporting your journey to FAIR research data

NFDI Life Science Consortia –Supporting your journey to FAIR research data 18.09.2025 Ulrik Stervbo, Dominik Brilhaus, Justine Vandendorpe, Julia Fürst, Stefanie Weidtkamp-Peters HHU Core Facility Symposium 2025, Düsseldorf Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) under the National Research Data Infrastructure –grant numbers: 501864659, 460129525, 442326535, 501875662, 442077441 CC-BY 4.0 With the exception of logos and unless stated otherwise, the content of these slides is shared under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license What is NFDI 2 Universities Federal initiatives, Infrastructures & Professional societies Discipline-specific services Repositories Research Performing Organisations NFDI National Research Data Infrastructure Adapted from: https://www.dfg.de/foerderung/programme/nfdi/informationsmaterialien/index.html, 2022, copyright: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft NFDI 3 Aim and approach “The aim (…) is to systematically manage scientific and research data, provide long-term data storage, backup and accessibility, and network the data both nationally and internationally.” ●Science-driven by the research communities (bottom-up) ●“Invest into people, not into metal” (Data Stewards, Data Scientists, Research Software Engineers etc.) ●26 consortia + 1 cross-consortia project for basic services ➡Network of collaborating CONSORTIA (scientific discipline or method) You get access to optimal research data management infrastructures, data steward teams and services for the benefit for your research. https://www.dfg.de/en/research-funding/funding-initiative/nfdi? NFDI covers almost all scientific disciplines 18.09.2025 4 Collaboration and discipline-specific support Life Sciences Plant, Agrosystem, Immunology, Human Genome-Phenome, Biodiversity, Ecology & Environment, Bioimaging, Health, Microbiota Humanities & Social Sciences Business & Economic, Social, Educational & Behavioural Science, Cultural Heritage, History, Language & Text Natural sciences Physics: Photon/Neutron, Condensed Matter, Chemical physics; Astronomy Catalysis, Mathematics, Chemistry, Earth System Science Engineering Sciences Data Science & AI, Energy Systems, Engineering, Material Science, Computer Science NFDI BioMed Interest Group & Biodata Interest Group NFDI BioMed Interest Group & Biodata Interest Group 5 Data Steward Teams, Tools and Services for the Life Sciences NFDI BioMed Interest Group & Biodata Interest Group 6 Data Steward Teams, Tools and Services for the Life Sciences Ulrik Stervbo Co-speaker RUB, Bochum Dominik Brilhaus Data Scientist CEPLAS, HHU Justine Vandendorpe Data Steward ZB-Med, Cologne Julia Fürst Data Steward ZB-Med, Cologne S. Weidtkamp-Peters Spokesperson CAi, HHU NFDI BioMed Interest Group & Biodata Interest Group 7 Data Steward Teams, Tools and Services for the Life Sciences Ulrik Stervbo Co-speaker RUB, Bochum Dominik Brilhaus Data Scientist CEPLAS, HHU Justine Vandendorpe Data Steward ZB-Med, Cologne Julia Fürst Data Steward ZB-Med, Cologne S. Weidtkamp-Peters Spokesperson CAi, HHU NFDI4Immuno 8 Who we are NFDI4Immuno Flow cytometry 9 Main data types Immune receptor sequencing https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DNA_sequence.svg, by Sjef, public domain Collaborate on ARCs via the DataHUB 16 git.nfdi4plants.org From sample submission to data publication 17 ARCs can be published and receive a DOI NFDI BioMed Interest Group & Biodata Interest Group 18 Data Steward Teams, Tools and Services for the Life Sciences Ulrik Stervbo Co-speaker RUB, Bochum Dominik Brilhaus Data Scientist CEPLAS, HHU Justine Vandendorpe Data Steward ZB-Med, Cologne Julia Fürst Data Steward ZB-Med, Cologne S. Weidtkamp-Peters Spokesperson CAi, HHU NFDI4Microbiota 19 Who We Are NFDI4Microbiota 20 Who We Serve: our community handles… NFDI4Microbiota Researchers can translate data easily into a deep understanding of microbial organisms and their interactions on a molecular level. 21 Vision NFDI4Microbiota 22 Big Picture NFDI4Microbiota 23 Selected Services All our services can be found on our website. NFDI4Microbiota ●Training (> 190) 🔗Training calendar ●Helpdesk and FAQs 🔗Link ●Knowledge Base 🔗Link ●Ambassador program (65 ambassadors) 🔗Link 24 Teaching & Community Engagement Helpdesk team NFDI4Microbiota ●Become an ambassador ●Web portal: https://nfdi4microbiota.de/ ●LinkedIn: t1p.de/N4M-LinkedIn ●Mastodon: t1p.de/N4M-Mastodon ●Mailing list: NFDI4Microbiota-announce ●Email address: [email protected] 25 Get Involved! NFDI4Health For ➢Researchers ➢Data stewards ➢Data holding organisations Via ➢Capacity building ➢Reference materials ➢Participation ➢Helpdesk 32 Support Link Link NFDI4Health 33 Shape the future of data sharing in health research! Link NFDI4Health 34 Join the NFDI4Health community: Link Link Link NFDI BioMed Interest Group & Biodata Interest Group 35 Data Steward Teams, Tools and Services for the Life Sciences Ulrik Stervbo Co-speaker RUB, Bochum Dominik Brilhaus Data Scientist CEPLAS, HHU Justine Vandendorpe Data Steward ZB-Med, Cologne Julia Fürst Data Steward ZB-Med, Cologne S. Weidtkamp-Peters Spokesperson CAi, HHU NFDI4BIOIMAGE We take care of your image data! 3618.09.2025 Service #1: OMERO Get your image data under management! 3718.09.2025 Tutorial: Fuchs, V. et al. (2024. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11109616, CC-BY 4.0 Communitydeveloped metadata checklists (REMBI) OMERO supports all proprietary formats Check out this public instance! https://www.openmicroscopy.org/omero/ Service #2: a new image data format OME.zarr Access large image data in the cloud! 3818.09.2025 https://zenodo.org/records/14762435 Josh Moore et al., Nat Methods 18, 1496–1498 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-021-01326-w → streaming different portions of the same SARS-COV-2 virus image at various resolutions directly from S3 storage at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI)“ Use Case Service #3: Data Steward Helpdesk Get individual support for your image data! 3918.09.2025 https://nfdi4bioimage.de/about-us/data-stewardship-team/ https://nfdi4bioimage.de/help-desk/ A Common Service: Geo-Chem-Life Science Helpdesk Cluster Helpdesk Collaboration Strengthens Interdisciplinary Research! 4018.09.2025 https://www.nfdi4biodiversity.org/en/mou-helpdesk/ Thank you for your attention! We will make the slides available! Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) under the National Research Data Infrastructure –grant numbers: 501864659, 460129525, 442326535, 501875662, 442077441 NFDI consortia are legally non-independent projects that do not act autonomously towards third parties. The authors of this presentation represent the contribution to these projects as members of their affiliated institutions, which are members of the NFDI e.V.