tech day intro july 4 2012 peter kunszt news and updates
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Tech Day Intro July 4 2012
Peter Kunszt
News and Updates
News and Updates
Reports and Proposals
6th Call, our role
How to evaluate SyBIT
Situation 2013-2016
New webpage www.sybit.net
Wiki migration to 4.2
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Immediate Reports
Scientific Report is due now (July 15)I am assembling it and will send the draft to sybit-all for comments by this Friday
SyBIT needs to put in a project plan for SNSF and SEB for 2013-2016 (End August)
I am assembling that as well and will send it first to the coordinators and then to all in July-August
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RTD Data Publication Plan
SNSF requested a plan from the RTDs to publish their research data
SyBIT can help in this with technology and support – sustained publication as well
But at least SyBIT should be informed of these – our job is to aim for some consistency and we may have to support published data services
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SystemsX.ch 6th Call
6th call for RTD projects is out now, deadline August 25
Expect 10 new projects by Jan. 1st for us to support
Expect ~5 of the current 8 1st-round RTDs to continue and 5 new RTDs
I have promised assistance during proposal writing already, expect requests in the first 3 weeks of August!
Assess what can we do in SyBIT for the RTD
Assess what they should request from SystemsX.ch
In average we have 0.9 FTEs per project for 2013-2016. NO HARDWARE THIS TIME! (OC)
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Assessment Guidelines
SyBIT does non-competitive stuffWe do not compete on scientific systems biology publications with the scientists we support (obvious but needs to be restated)
They should plan for bioinformatics research, new algorithms and models
We can provide infrastructure interfaces, data management, automation, basic statistics and visualization, standardized bioinformatics analysis
The borderline is a broad grey strip! An individual person might do both, that is not a contradiction!
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SyBIT evaluation metrics
SNSF has requested input on how to evaluate SyBIT – last time the metrics were wrong
Suggested new metrics – please commentDirect acknowledgements, co-authorships, own publications and citations
Number of successfully concluded projects
Number of researchers that interact with SyBIT
Software and services developed and documented
The number of services in operation and their usage
Infrastructure provided to SystemsX.ch researchers through SyBIT
Education activities by SyBIT
Standards being developed, used and promoted
Sustained contribution acquired by partner institutions
3rd party funding and industrial collaborations
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SEB Interaction
SEB also regularly forgets what SyBIT isMembers change and they also forget
Repeat our mission to them (I have prepared a set of guidelines, you will receive those as well)
There is no SyBIT management boardEven Ron forgot that we agreed to discontinue it
There were simply no difficult items to decide on
SEB can take on the role of supervising SyBIT without too much effort
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Funding 2013-2016
Less than for 2012! But we will need to support more projects!
So: no more infrastructure funding, only people. We can help in getting the money.
Continue to improve efficiency
Motivate institutions to start paying for support personnel like us, we need to be sustained by the end of 2016!
Is your job safe? Mostly yes..Decision on new projects will only be communicated on December 16!!! So I will try to keep everyone as is, hoping for the best.
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Efficiency
We need to come back to the idea of ‘short projects’ :
Be able to do periodic reprioritization
Be able to put things on hold for a short period
3 months reporting and project reviews
No limit on ‘extensions’ but need to plan next 3 months again
Remain fully transparent, more communication to SEB and Pis
Agree on SAME documentation and communication channels in Lausanne, Zurich and Basel !
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Improving Webpage SyBIT.net
Being revamped to show software we do, link to the relevant download sites
I will contact you for text and images, just respond to email please
This is the public face of SyBIT, which people can refer to also in publications
Can link to project individual pages (like MorphoGraphX.org) and of course Expasy
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