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

3.3.WeNMR

MoU Partners	EGI.eu	WeNMR - A worldwide e-Infrastructure for NMR and structural biology
MoU Type	VRC
Start date	11/04/2011
End date
Partner contact	WeNMR: Alexandre Bonvin, [e-mail]
Report date	May 2012
Milestones	http://go.egi.eu/mou-milestones-wenmr

Motivation for the MoU

WeNMR brings together research teams in the structural biology and life science area into a virtual research community at a worldwide level, focusing on biomolecular Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) and Small Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS). These research communities need virtual platforms to provide user-friendly computation tools supported by an underlying high performance e-Infrastructure. The main objective of WeNMR is to establish an e-Infrastructure-based global virtual research community for structural biology in the life sciences.

EGI and the WeNMR will work together to support the development of an emerging VRC in the area of structural biology and life sciences. The collaboration will focus on:

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  User support
  
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  Application integration
  
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  User Community policy and procedures
  
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  Requirements gathering
  
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  Sustainability
  
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  Dissemination
  

Assessment

Managerial

Similar to LSGC, this MoU is working very well with high-level of participation and interaction. WeNMR has been a main stay within the UCB providing insight, expertise, requirements and feedback on progress. They have heavily participated in each of EGI’s major events with presentations and workshops. Overall, WeNMR, through Alexandre Bonvin, is an exemplar VRC for what others should become. All milestones have been delivered with no open issues.

Technical

The main milestones achieved are:

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  Announcement and publication of the collaboration agreement.
  
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  Feedback from EGI on progress on requirements progress.
  
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