Egi eu and egi-inspire memorandum of Understanding Annual Report – 2011-12

3.2.LSGC

MoU Partners	EGI.eu	LSGC - Life-Science Grid Community
MoU Type	VRC
Start date	27/05/2011
End date
Partner contact	LSGC: Tristan Glatard, [e-mail]
Report date	May 2012
Milestones	http://go.egi.eu/mou-milestones-lsgc

Motivation for the MoU

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. EGI and the LSGC 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
  

Assessment

Managerial

This MoU is working very well with high-level of participation and interaction. LSGC has been a main stay within the UCB providing insight, expertise, requirements and feedback on progress. They have provided organisational information to other potential VRCs (e.g. astrophysics) and have heavily participated in each of EGI’s major events with presentations and workshops. Overall, LSGC alongside WeNMR are the exemplar VRCs for what others should become.

The only open milestone to-date is a summary of the main achievements, open issues and future plans related to the collaboration to be done by Steve Brewer, which can be accomplished through updating this document.

Technical

LSGC representatives have taken part in almost a dozen UCB meetings and have actively participated in EGI major events. According to specific milestones, the main activities are around:

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