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A question or need advice?
Services offered by IFB/ELIXIR-FR are detailled on this website.
In this FAQ you will find links to answer the most frequently asked questions from our users.
However, if you cannot find your answer or for any specific requests , please do not hesitate to complete the contact form. We evaluate these resources to identify the most relevant human and IT resources available in France, based on the IFB/ELIXIR-FR bioinformatics resource catalog. We can also monitor the activity of various IT systems and estimate their availability.
Please note, this contact form is independent of infrastructure support; for any questions regarding your cluster or cloud access accounts, please contact their support team first.
IFB, ELIXIR-FR...
Do you have a question about how the IFB works and its mission?
We invite you to visit the “Who are we?” page.
IFB/ELIXIR-FR is the French node of the European ELIXIR infrastructure. Learn more about ELIXIR France or the European infrastructure ?
If you would like to join the French node of ELIXIR, please contact us using the form below.
The mission of IFB/ELIXIR-FR is to provide project support to the life sciences and bioinformatics communities. To this end, it offers services open to all .
Are you interested in discussing a collaboration?
If you would like expert support to continue your project, please describe it to us in a few sentences in the form below.
Computing infrastructure
The IFB’s federation of clouds and clusters constitutes the National Network of Computing Resources. For more information, see the infrastructure page.
To gain a clearer understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of each of the NNCR solutions: a page to assist you.
Opening a cloud or Core-cluster account is free for academics in France. For businesses, accounts can be opened upon request; please fill out the form below.
For more information, see ‘How is the IFB offer organised?’
Yes, it is entirely possible to use the NNCR infrastructure for training courses. The procedures for the Cloud and Cluster are detailed on the page ‘I provide training courses’.
Please note, this contact form is independent of infrastructure support; for any questions regarding your cluster or cloud access accounts, please contact their support team first.
Trainings
Obtaining dedicated computing spaces, creating accounts for a group, creating VMs available to students, but also finding teaching materials, the IFB/ELIXIR-FR service offer can support you in organizing training courses. See offer details.
You can consult the catalogue of training courses organised by the IFB and its platforms or at the European level.
An IFB working group is seeking to create innovative solutions for online training; all the details are on the e-learning page.
You may wish to propose a training topic that you feel is missing from the general range of bioinformatics training courses. Or perhaps you have already organized a training course that deserves to be shared with the community. Maybe you would like to add a course to our catalog to improve its reach… For all these questions, you can send a request to the training department’s contact address.
Data management plan, FAIR attitude and Open Science
The IFB is committed to promoting the development of Data Management Plans from the initial design stage of research projects. Please feel free to ask us questions using the contact form below. If you are more familiar with DMPs, we maintain the DSW@IFB instance, which is available to the community.
Through the Research Data Gov ecosystem, the State is committed to ensuring that research data is easy to find, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR). In this context, IFB has been chosen as the Thematic Reference Centre for Biology and Health. It therefore contributes to the definition and adoption of standards for the description and dissemination of data in the field of biology and health.
—> For further information: “l’IFB dans l’écosystème Recherche Data Gouv“
Because interoperability is closely linked to the FAIR principle, the IFB tries to support the needs of the life sciences community through several dynamics: the development of tools promoting interoperability , the development of the CRT , the implementation of specific training courses …
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