LSGC
Name
The Life-Science Grid Community (LSGC)
Area
Virtual Research Community
Agreement
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed on 27 May 2011
About LSGC
The LSGC serves the worldwide healthcare and life sciences community in its adoption and exploitation of distributed computing infrastructures. The life science community covers scientific domains such as bioinformatics, genomics, biobanking, medical imaging, statistical analysis, and systems biology. The main objectives are to:
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Represent the life science grid users for the negotiation of resources and to liaise with EGI and other worldwide resource providers.
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Coordinate by serving as a contact point for new users, share expertise to avoid replication of efforts within the community, collect and define domain-specific requirements, and encourage sharing of resources, data and tools.
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Provide technical services, operate and support common VOs and shared services, and provide targeted user support and application porting.
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Organise community-specific training events that can smooth the learning curve and lower start-up costs.
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Disseminate and transfer knowledge, advertise actions, and facilitate communication internally with the members and externally to other groups of interest (e.g., funding and policy-making initiatives).
Overview of the joint workplan
EGI and the LSGC will work together to support the developments throughout the life science community focusing on:
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User support
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Services and operations
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User community policy and procedures
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Requirements gathering
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Dissemination
Resources
