Mission of e-NMR
NMR plays an important role in life sciences (biomolecular NMR), and structural biology in particular, at both European and international levels. An I3 initiative is operative in the field, which provides access to NMR instrumentation and pursues technical advancement (EU-NMR). In addition, the EC has funded a Coordination action NMR-Life aimed at the establishment of common experimental approaches and at the spreading of best experimental practices across Europe. Altogether, these two initiatives provide a reference point for the large majority of European scientists with an interest in biomolecular NMR.
In parallel, European developments in the area of Research Infrastructures in the past years resulted in a leading edge high-speed research network covering all Europe and in a overlaying production Grid infrastructure, realized by projects as EGEE/EGEE II. This integrated network and processing/storage environment - e-Infrastructure - provides a platform for new methods of global collaborative research - e-Science.
The main objective of this project is to optimise and extend the use of the NMR Research Infrastructures of EU-NMR through the implementation of an e-Infrastructure in order to provide the European biomolecular NMR user community with a platform integrating and streamlining the computational approaches necessary for biomolecular NMR data analysis (e-NMR). The e-NMR infrastructure will be based on the Grid infrastructure.
The project will also tackle the following objectives:
- establish a human collaboration network between the biomolecular NMR and the e-Infrastructure scientific communities
- assess the state-of-the-art of the computational aspects of biomolecular NMR
- implement and make available state-of-the-art computational methods.
A broad range of networking activities will focus on monitoring, dissemination and outreach, training, hands-on workshops. The development and enforcement of operational and organizational schemes and policies will also be addressed.
Contact
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Partners
- Center for Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance (BMRZ)
Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany - Magnetic Resonance Center (CERM)
University of Florence, Italy - Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research (BCBR), NMR Research Group
Utrecht University, The Netherlands - National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN)
Padova, Italy - European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI)
Hinxton, UK
Subcontractors
- Spronk NMR Consultancy, Vilnius, Lithuania
- Torsten Herrmann, CNRS, ENS Lyon, France