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A Science gateway for biodiversity and climate change research

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1 Advanced Scientific Computing Division, Fondazione Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici, Lecce, Italy
2 Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
3 Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Campina Grande, Brasil
4 IBED, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
5 Centro de Referencia em Informacao Ambiental, Campinas, Brasil
6 Dept. of Engineering for Innovation, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy
DOI
10.7287/peerj.preprints.2834v1
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Subject Areas
Data Science, Scientific Computing and Simulation, Software Engineering
Keywords
Science Gateways, Scientific Data Management and Analytics, Environmental Sciences
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© 2017 Elia et al.
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Elia D, Nuzzo A, Nassisi P, Fiore S, Blanquer I, Brasileiro FV, Rufino IAA, Seijmonsbergen AC, Anders NS, Galvao CdO, Cunha JEdBL, de Sousa-Baena M, Canhos VP, Aloisio G. 2017. A Science gateway for biodiversity and climate change research. PeerJ Preprints 5:e2834v1

Abstract

Climate and biodiversity systems are closely interlaced across a wide range of scales. To better understand the mutual interaction between climate change and biodiversity there is a strong need for multidisciplinary skills, tools and a large variety of heterogeneous, distributed data sources. In this regard, the EUBrazilCloudConnect project provides a user-centric research environment built on top of a federated cloud infrastructure across Europe and Brazil to serve scientific needs. One of the test cases implemented in this project focuses on climate change and biodiversity research. The BioClimate is the Science Gateway of the use case. It aims at providing end-users with a highly integrated environment, addressing mainly data analytics requirements. This paper presents a complete overview about BioClimate and the scientific environment delivered to the user community at the end of the project.

Author Comment

The abstract was presented during the IWSG 2016 workshop, 8-10 June 2016, Rome, Italy.

Additional Information

Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Donatello Elia conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, performed the computation work, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Alessandra Nuzzo performed the experiments, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, performed the computation work, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Paola Nassisi performed the experiments, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, performed the computation work, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Sandro Fiore conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, performed the computation work, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Ignacio Blanquer conceived and designed the experiments, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, performed the computation work, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Francisco V. Brasileiro conceived and designed the experiments, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, performed the computation work, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Iana A. A. Rufino conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Arie C. Seijmonsbergen conceived and designed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Niels S. Anders conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, prepared figures and/or tables, performed the computation work, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Carlos de O. Galvao conceived and designed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, reviewed drafts of the paper.

John E. de B. L. Cunha performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, performed the computation work, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Mariane de Sousa-Baena conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Vanderlei P. Canhos conceived and designed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Giovanni Aloisio conceived and designed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, performed the computation work, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Data Deposition

The following information was supplied regarding data availability:

Your raw data must be accessible at this location for review.

BioClimate Science Gateway:

Source code available in the git repo:

https://github.com/Ophidia/eubrazilcc-uc3-gateway

Elastic Job Engine:

Source code available in the git repo:

https://github.com/Ophidia/eubrazilcc-uc3-elastic-engine

Funding

This work was supported by the EU FP7 EUBrazilCC Project (Grant Agreement 614048), and CNPq/Brazil (Grant Agreement 490115/2013-6). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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