West-Life: A Virtual Research Environment for Structural Biology

Overview

Journal J Struct Biol X

Specialty Cell Biology

Date 2020 Jul 11

PMID 32647812

Citations 2

Authors

Chris Morris

Paolo Andreetto

Lucia Banci

Alexandre M J J Bonvin

Grzegorz Chojnowski

Laura Del Cano

Jose Maria Carazo

Pablo Conesa

Susan Daenke

George Damaskos

Andrea Giachetti

Natalie E C Haley

Maarten L Hekkelman

Philipp Heuser

Robbie P Joosten

Daniel Kouril

Ales Krenek

Tomas Kulhanek

Victor S Lamzin

Nurul Nadzirin

Anastassis Perrakis

Antonio Rosato

Fiona Sanderson

Joan Segura

Joerg Schaarschmidt

Egor Sobolev

Sergio Traldi

Mikael E Trellet

Sameer Velankar

Marco Verlato

Martyn Winn

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Abstract

The West-Life project (https://about.west-life.eu/) is a Horizon 2020 project funded by the European Commission to provide data processing and data management services for the international community of structural biologists, and in particular to support integrative experimental approaches within the field of structural biology. It has developed enhancements to existing web services for structure solution and analysis, created new pipelines to link these services into more complex higher-level workflows, and added new data management facilities. Through this work it has striven to make the benefits of European e-Infrastructures more accessible to life-science researchers in general and structural biologists in particular.

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