National resources: Norway

Feide is the national solution for secure login and data exchange in education and research. Feide can be linked with ELIXIR-AAI through eduGAIN.

DS-Wizard is a tool to aid the creation, organisaton and sharing of data management plans. It provides scientists with guidance, facilitating the understanding of the key components of FAIR-oriented Data Stewardship. The template in this instance provides additional guidance on resources, laws and regulations in Norway.

DMP tool from UNINETT Sigma2

META-pipe is a pipeline for annotation and analysis of marine metagenomics samples, which provides insight into phylogenetic diversity, metabolic and functional potential of environmental communities.

MarDB includes all non-complete marine microbial genomes regardless of level of completeness. Each entry contains 120 metadata fields including information about sampling environment or host, organism and taxonomy, phenotype, pathogenicity, assembly and annotation.

MarFun is a manually curated marine fungi genome database.

The Norwegian COVID-19 Data Portal aims to bundle the Norwegian research efforts and offers guidelines, tools, databases and services to support Norwegian COVID-19 researchers.

Federated instance collects metadata of -omics data collections stored in national or regional archives and makes them available for search through the main EGA portal. With this solution, sensitive data will not physically leave the country, but will reside on TSD.

Galaxy is an open source, web-based platform for data intensive biomedical research. This instance of Galaxy is coupled with NeLS for easy data transfer.

Norwegian e-Infrastructure for Life Sciences enables Norwegian life scientists and their international collaborators to store, share, archive, and analyse their omics-scale data

The National Infrastructure for Research Data (NIRD) infrastructure offers storage services, archiving services, and processing capacity for computing on the stored data. It offers services and capacities to any scientific discipline that requires access to advanced, large-scale, or high-end resources for storing, processing, publishing research data or searching digital databases and collections. This service is owned and operatedby Sigma2 NRIS, which is a joint collaboration between UiO, UiB, NTNU, UiT, and UNINETT Sigma2

The current Norwegian academic HPC infrastructure consists of three systems for different purposes. The Norwegian academic high-performance computing and storage infrastructure is maintained by Sigma2 NRIS, which is a joint collaboration between UiO, UiB, NTNU, UiT, and UNINETT Sigma2.

NREC is an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) project between the University of Bergen and the University of Oslo, with additional contributions from NeIC (Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration) and Uninett., commonly referred to as a cloud infrastructure An IaaS is a self-service infrastructure where you spawn standardized servers and storage instantly, as needed, from a given resource quota.

Educloud Research is a platform provided by the Centre for information Technology (USIT) at the University of Oslo (UiO). This platform provides access to a work environment accessible to collaborators from other institutions or countries. This service provides a storage solution and a low threshold HPC system that offers batch job submission (SLURM) and interactive nodes. Data up to the red classification level can be stored/analysed.

The TSD – Service for Sensitive Data, is a platform for collecting, storing, analysing and sharing sensitive data in compliance with the Norwegian privacy regulation. TSD is developed and operated by UiO.

The HUNT Cloud, established in 2013, aims to improve and develop the collection, accessibility and exploration of large scale information. HUNT Cloud offers cloud services, lab management, and is a key service that has established a framework for data protection, data security, and data management. HUNT Cloud is owned by NTNU and operated by HUNT Research Centre at the Department of Public Health and Nursing at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences.

SAFE (secure access to research data and e-infrastructure) is solution for secure processing of sensitive personal data in research at the University of Bergen. SAFE is based on “Norwegian Code of conduct for information security in the health and care sector” (Normen) and ensures confidentiality, integrity, and availability are preserved when processing sensitive personal data. Through SAFE, the IT-department offers a service where employees, students and external partners get access to dedicated resources for processing of sensitive personal data.

System for Risk and compliance. Processing of personal data in research and student projects at UiB.

DataverseNO is a national, generic repository for open research data. Various Norwegian research institutions have established a partner agreements about using DataverseNO as institutional repositories for open research data.