The aim of this Implementation Study is to guide ELIXIR users to identify those competencies they require and the suitable courses to acquire such competencies to be able to carry out their daily work more effectively. The Study will establish three Work Packages (WP) bridging efforts across ELIXR Platforms, key bioinformatics and data-science initiatives, and Industry partners, to meet Industry needs.

The aim of this implementation study is to provide a stable infrastructure for unifying software containers solutions within ELIXIR. This infrastructure will provide an access point for end-users to find, generate, store, monitor, and even benchmark software containers solutions. Hardware infrastructure will be provided by an ELIXIR Node from the ELIXIR Compute Platform for software containers deployment while ELIXIR-ES will provide the backup system using EUDAT protocols and infrastructures.

We propose to reduce complexity for users by providing a Task Execution Platform (compatible with standards emerging from the GA4GH) that can encompass distributed sites in the ELIXIR Compute Platform with appropriate management interfaces that can abstract the user away from some of this complexity. Experience has shown that the acquisition and access of cloud resources can have a high overhead for end-users, e.g. finding the ‘right’ cloud service provider, negotiating or paying for access, porting your application to that cloud service provider etc.

The Marine Metagenomics Community has adopted the use of the Common Workflow Language (CWL) as an interoperable way to describe their analysis pipelines. One of the most complex and fully developed CWL workflows implements the EBI metagenomics analysis pipeline.