de.NBI
The 'German Network for Bioinformatics Infrastructure - de.NBI' is a national, distributed, academic infrastructure that provides bioinformatics services for users in life science research and biomedicine in Germany and Europe. The de.NBI network consists of eight interconnected service centers from research, service and infrastructure groups of 24 partner institutions and about 150 bioinformaticians.
The "de.NBI office" department in IBG-5
The office coordinates the work of the network and develops strategies for cooperation between the network partners and for the further development of the network's bioinformatics services. These services include software tools and web services, databases, data management, compute resources and consulting for users in life science research under open access.
The network's specialist topics address cloud resources, bioinformatics for genomics, metagenomics, proteomics, metabolomics, transcriptomics, lipidomics in humans, microbes and plants, RNA bioinformatics, systems biology, relevant databases and integrative bioinformatics as well as research data management. Within the network, guidelines for the training curriculum and services are being further developed.
In addition, an industry forum is maintained as an interface for bioinformatics expertise between academia and industry partners. The office is also responsible for public relations work for the network and the organization of events and regular network meetings, including reporting. All de.NBI partner institutes are members of ELIXIR Germany and also offer their services at European level.
The network was established as part of a BMBF joint project (2015-2021) and is now being continued and coordinated by Forschungszentrum Jülich with support from the BMBF.
Publications
- Broschüre de.NBI-Cloud, "Development and Operation of the federated de.NBI Cloud"
- Broschüre KI, "Future-oriented analysis of life science data using artificial intelligence"
- Briefings in Bioinformatics 05/21, "Implementing FAIR data management within the German Network for Bioinformatics Infrastructure (de.NBI) exemplified by selected use cases", G. Mayer et al.
- Briefings in Bioinformatics 10/17, "A generally applicable lightweight method for calculating a value structure for tools and services in bioinformatics infrastructure projects", G. Mayer, C. Quast, J. Felden, M. Lange, M. Prinz, A. Pühler, C. Lawerenz, U. Scholz, F. O. Glöckner, W. Müller, K. Marcus, M. Eisenacher
- Briefings in Bioinformatics 04/17, "Bioinformatics in Germany: toward a national-level infrastructure", A. Tauch
- Biologie in unserer Zeit - BiuZ, "Verstetigung des de.NBI-Netzwerks", A. Pühler
- Gesundhyte 15/23, "The de.NBI network: Continuation of activities as an established bioinformatics infrastructure", A. Pühler, A. Sczyrba, A. Tauch
- National Library of Medicine, "De.NBI Cloud federation through ELIXIR AAI", P. Belmann et al.
Contact
Dr. Tanja Dammann-Kalinowski
Admin. Coordinator
Office of the German Network for Bioinformatics Infrastructure-de.NBI
Institute of Bio- and Geosciences (IBG-5)
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
c/o Center for Biotechnology
Bielefeld University
33594 Bielefeld
t.dammann-kalinowski@fz-juelich.de
contact@denbi.de
Scientific spokespersons of de.NBI:
Prof. Dr. Oliver Kohlbacher, University of Tübingen (oliver.kohlbacher@uni-tuebingen.de)
Prof. Dr. Alexander Sczyrba, Forschungszentrum Jülich (a.sczyrba@fz-juelich.de)