The first annual meeting of the BioMedBridges Consortium took place at the Düsseldorf University Hospital on 11-12 March. Over 70 delegates from the biomedical sciences research infrastructures on the ESFRI roadmap, representing the 21 project partners from 9 countries, presented updates on the status and discussed progress of the project, which started in January 2012. The delegates also heard presentations by invited speakers on a range of topics, including issues involved in ethical and secure access to sensitive data and related projects and initiatives.
BioMedBridges brings together ten new European research infrastructures, from marine biology via structural biology and translational research to the clinical domain, to define, implement and deliver data interoperability across different scientific disciplines and communities. The scientists sharing knowledge and data in the project come from a wide variety of scientific backgrounds.
BioMedBridges will enable the integration of data resources that were previously not available and/or easily accessible or discoverable. The tools developed within the project will link and reference data across different disciplines and maximize the potential and use of existing data resources: new and bigger, interdisciplinary questions can be answered.
Presentations given at the meeting are avaialble here.
The BioMedBridges project is funded by the European Commission within Research Infrastructures of the FP7 Capacities Specific Programme, grant agreement number 284209.