The ERASysBio partners are committed to encourage the adoption of data standards, data management and sharing best practices across the European Research Area. This is crucial for the rapid development of systems biology and several mechanisms are being put in place to fulfil this urgent action.

The ERASysBio Plus call requested scientists submitting full proposals to describe data standards, data management and data sharing plans for the operation of their project consortium. Applicants were requested to define a set of data standards and best practice to be adopted by the consortium and present a clear structure for the management and sharing of data and models within the consortium.

In its call text, ERASysBio Plus pre-announces its expectation that Data Management will extend beyond the boundaries of each consortium, and that a common strategy will be agreed and adopted by all funded projects, for communication, data storage, data/model exchange and data/model sharing.

The ERASysBio+ Data Management Group

The first meeting of the ERASysBio+ data management group (DMG) took place at the Institute of Pathology, Charité Campus Mitte in Berlin (Germany) on Monday, June 14, 2010.

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livSYSiPS Wasco Wruck	SHIPREC Edwin van Leeuwen	TB-HOST-NET Huihai Wu	LINCONET Ana Sotoca
ModHeart Denis Puthier	SYNERGY Marko Laakso Martin Seifert	Zebrain Sebastian Romano	APONET Christian Hundsrucker
C5Sys Franck Delaunay	C5Sys Jay Moore (rep B)*	EpiGenSys Tobias Knoch	BioMod UE_PTL Brane Leskosek
GRAPPLE Madan Babu	GRAPPLE Olga Vasieva (rep B)*	SynProt Douglass Armstrong	FRIM Mark Poolman
LymphoSys Harri Lähdesmaki	iSAM Etienne Farcot

* Representative at the 1st meeting in Berlin