FAIR, PID-Aware Infrastructure in Support of Open Science Dissemination

Abstract

Knowledge management at EMBL-EBI provides a range of tools and services that promote FAIR, PID-aware data integration. Europe PMC, a digital archive for life science publications, runs a text mining pipeline that extracts accession numbers and other bio-entities mentioned in scientific articles. The FAIRified versions of these articles are openly available. The BioStudies database aims to provide access to all the data outputs of a life sciences study from a single place, by organising links (text-mined, or specified by the study authors) to databases at EMBL-EBI or elsewhere, as well as hosting data and metadata that do not fit elsewhere. The Ontology Lookup Service (OLS) provides data annotations with appropriate ontologies and controlled vocabularies to ground assertions. identifiers.org provides globally unique PIDs across systems and resources in the form of compact identifiers. Finally, EBI search indexes these systems and many others to allow users to use powerful query syntax to locate useful data objects among the millions available. Additionally, a subset of metadata is available directly through EBI search, turning it into a central collection point from multiple providers.