Working with and for researchers, service providers, journal publishers, library science experts, funders and learned societies in the academic as well as in the commercial and governmental setting, we ensure that data is Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) for humans as well as for machines.
With collaborators worldwide, we design and develop open source software, to improve collection, representation, sharing and publication of multi-dimensional data. We also build interoperability standards; we run informative, educational registries to enable data quality and readiness, essential in Data Science.
Our FAIR Cookbook resource of hands-on recipes for “FAIR doers” in the Life Sciences is built openly and collaboratively with researchers and data managers professionals in academia, (bio)pharmaceutical companies and information service industries; and it is already recommended by funders.
Our FAIR-enabling, open source ISA software suite for metadata reporting is embedded in over 30 public resources, institute-based (e.g. USA NASA GeneLab Data Repository) and global repositories (e.g. EMBL-EBI MetaboLights), as well as data-driven journals (e.g. Springer Nature Scientific Data).
Our FAIRsharing resource on standards, repositories, and data policies is endorsed by a growing number of stakeholder communities, including major publishers (e.g. Wiley, Elsevier and EMBO Press), funders (e.g. Wellcome Trust), libraries and FAIR-supporting organizations (e.g. RDA, GO-FAIR).
We are a team of data researchers, more specifically research software and knowledge engineers.
Our expertise and activities encompass: knowledge management, curation, software development, text-mining, data and metadata standards, scholarly publishing, semantic web, machine learning and creation and delivery of training and teaching elements.
Our backgrounds span computer science, to molecular biology, genetics, biomedical and agro-engineering, the reason why we mainly (but not exclusively) operate in the life, environmental and biomedical sciences.
We are looking for motivated DPhil/PhD students! If you have an interest in our areas of activity, please contact Prof. Sansone with your CV and a project proposal.
Group co-Investigator and Associate Member of Faculty
Senior Director at AstraZeneca (joint appointment)
Alumni and Students (from 2010)
Research Software Engineer
Knowledge Engineer
Research Software Engineer
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