Day 1 - 13 December 11.00- 13.30. Overview of the European infrastructures for bioinformatics - Large scale initiatives in human genomics

11.00 - 11.10 Introduction and brief overview of current initiatives led by RSBI

11.10 - 11.40 Overview of the European life science infrastructure for biological information

● Structure; Objectives; Main projects

● ELIXIR National Nodes. Their structure and impact.

Andrew Smith, Head of External Relations, ELIXIR

11.40 - 12.30 European projects for enabling secure access to human genomics

● The European Genomic Data Infrastructure

● Federated European Genome Archive

● Bottlenecks in deploying national instances

Kjell Petersen, Bergen University and Eivind Hovig, Oslo University from ELIXIR Norway

12.40 - 13.30 Bioinformatics workflows, data integration - the Galaxy platform

● The Norwegian instance of Galaxy

○ National instance vs European instance vs local instances

● Progress on the Galaxy Romanian instance.

Kjell Petersen, Bergen University and Alex Mizeranschi, Research and Development Station for Bovine, Arad

Day 2 - 14 December 11.00- 12.30. Boosting the secondary use of human genomics data - Discussions.

11.00 - 11.45 Legal Toolkit for human genomics research

● Consent Form for data federation - discussion; Discuss the Consent Form indevelopment.

● Responsibilities of a potential Romanian FEGA operator.

● Other documents in the public toolkit? Open discussion.

11.50 - 12.30 Communicating genomics to general practitioners and the public

● Discuss the type of information that should be passed to general practitioners and the public so that: 1) benefits of genomics are understood and 2) secondary use of genomics data is increased within strict ELSI requirements.

● Discuss the public engagement leaflets in development.

○ Eg. of topics: What are the risks that need to be communicated to the public? How many details about the research? How should data privacy be explained?