Workshop

Federating resources to alleviate the natural disasters impacts and collaborating with broader communities in Asia supported by APAN framework is the long-term goal of APAN Disaster Mitigation Working Group (DMWG). Taking advantage of the APAN46 hosted in New Zealand, it is a great opportunity for us to outreach to the disaster mitigation communities in New Zealand, Australia and nearby countries.

In the last decade, we have been witnessing an extreme proliferation of all kinds of IT platforms for environmental research, from HPC code frameworks optimized at the system level to user-friendly web portals for data management. This environmental computing workshop focuses on the most critical phase in creating such platforms: the transition from the prototype stage to the production stage, where only the best infrastructures and systems survive. Starting from the question: “Why do some platforms survive this transition and others not?”, we highlight success strategies for e-Infrastructures in this workshop.

Focuses of this workshop at APAN45 are the new case studies and new partners, as well as the collaborations between APAN, EGI and Asi@Connect.

Environmental data, available in unprecedented richness, are of utmost relevance to society nowadays: they are the basis of our adaption to dramatic environmental changes. Projects yielding such data – i.e. collecting, reprocessing or generating them – thus have a particular responsibility: rendering their outputs usable for society and fellow researchers. This year’s Environmental Computing Workshop shall therefore deal with data management in environmental IT projects of all kinds, from sensor-network to simulation projects. A proper Research Data Management guarantees efficient re-use of data and thus indispensable added value.

Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) are an important component of Open Science and FAIR data practices. PIDs ensure that entities within the research workflow are discoverable, citable, comprehensible, and connected.

In recent years, the vision of Open Science has emerged as a new paradigm for transparent, data-driven science capable of accelerating competitiveness and innovation.  EGI Notebooks is a services of the EGI e-infrastructure, providing a user-friendly and highly flexible Jupyter-based web environment for the development and execution of data analysis and visualisation ‘notebooks’. Notebooks can contain programming codes in various languages, HTML scripts, dynamic visualization, equations as well as images and explanatory text to provide guidance and context for the analysis. Through notebooks users can easily share concepts, ideas and working applications, capturing the full analytical methodology, connections to data and descriptive text to interpret those data. Binder can turn Jupyter notebooks reproducible and reusable by anyone, anywhere. Zenodo is an open access repository for research publications, scientific data and other 'research objects'. Jupyter, Binder and Zenodo are pillars of Open Science.

The worshop will introduce HADDOCK, (High Ambiguity Driven protein-protein DOCKing) which is an information-driven flexible docking approach for the modeling of biomolecular complexes, and PMX which is a service for users who need to do free energy calculations. PMX utilizes the Gromacs classical molecular dynamics simulation engine to perform calculations at the background. The workshop also covers advanced usage of Gromacs itself in particular on HPC environment.

Introduction to the software citation principles, and how they can be applied, as part of the Software Citation Workshop organised by the Software Sustainability Institute, the British Library and The Alan Turing Institute.

Introduction to Day 2 of the Software Citation Workshop organised by the Software Sustainability Institute, the British Library and The Alan Turing Institute.

This data was captured from an interactive panel discussion session at the Software Citation workshop at the British Library on Monday 13 June.
Mentimeter allows export of raw voting data, so we are making this available to supplement the workshop outputs.

There are two files:

• Software Citation Workshop Panel.pdf is the slides presented at the workshop, which gives the questions used.
• Software-Citation-Workshop-Panel-Cleaned.xlsx includes the (anonymous) raw data (with test data removed) and simple visualisations of the results.