Catalogue of Romanian Bioinformatics Services - CaRoBioS

- Under development -

CRB is developing the Catalogue of Romanian Bioinformatics Services (CaRoBioS).

By services, CRB means data resources, software tools, training, computing infrastructure, and help desks.

Objectives

Following the model of several ELIXIR Nodes, the development of the CaRoBioS aims to support the bioinformatics ecosystem in Romania by:

• promoting the awareness of services developed by Romanian research groups,
• increasing the domestic and European use of services developed by Romanian research groups,
• providing structured feedback according to a set of review criteria aligned with the FAIR principles
• identifying critical aspects of interoperability to improve existing services, and
• offering indirect support for access to funding to promote the long-term sustainability of essential services.

Inclusion in the CaRoBioS involves the following steps:

1. Submission of a form containing information about the service being developed. Dedicated forms for services other than data resources and software tools will be made available in future editions.

2. A peer-review evaluation by researchers from the diaspora scientific community, based on the following peer-review criteria.

3. Inclusion in the CaRoBioS, based on the suggestions and recommendations of the peer-review committee.

4. Communication of the suggestions and recommendations formulated by the peer reviewers to the contact person.

5. Classification as an ELIXIR Romania Service – Once Romania becomes an ELIXIR Member, a resource may be designated as a core ELIXIR Romania Service, based on its internal evaluation and relevance to the broader European network. This classification could enable access to support for long-term sustainability.

Please contact CRB at contact_crb@bioinfocluster.ro for further information.

Services List

Choice of subject

Type of Service

Name of service	Description	Type of services
World of Crayfish	Visualization tools for crayfish species and records of the crayfish plague pathogen (Aphanomyces astaci).	Data resources
SynergyAge	The SynergyAge database hosts high-quality, manually curated information about the synergistic and antagonistic lifespan effects of genetic interventions in model organisms, also allowing users to explore the longevity relationships between genes in a visual way.	Data resources
MetaboAge	MetaboAge is a free, open-source, manually curated human ageing-related metabolome database. It provides intuitive bioinformatics tools for the visualisation, interpretation, and analysis of pathway knowledge regarding metabolites that change during the ageing process.	Data resources
MitoAge	MitoAge is a curated, publicly available database, containing an extensive collection of mtDNA features and longevity records. It contains calculated mtDNA compositional features of the entire mitochondrial genome, mtDNA coding (tRNA, rRNA, protein-coding genes), and non-coding (D-loop, insertions) regions, codon usage for each protein-coding gene, and longevity records for over 900 species, as well as tools for the comparative analysis of mtDNA, particularly focusing on animal longevity.	Data resources
SAGS DB - Structural Assessment of Glycosylation Site Database	The database for the Structural Assessment of Glycosylation Sites.	Data resources
Plastic Raman Database – A Raman spectral database of aged plastics	The Plastic Raman database contains Raman spectra of naturally aged macro- and microplastics, and standard plastics. It comprises plastics aged for years, both in terrestrial or aquatic conditions, and characteristic spectral information, images of samples and a relevant description of various plastic waste samples collected from the natural environment. It covers 6 recyclable types of plastic: polyethylene terephthalate (PET), high-density polyethylene (HDPE), polyvinyl chloride (PVC), low-density polyethylene (LDPE), polypropylene (PP), and polystyrene (PS).	Data resources
GitHub - TracyRage/muddy_mine	A mining pipeline - muddy_mine, which could engage NLP technology in the niche environmental topics such as mud volcanoes. This pipeline is able to mine taxonomy (bacterial, archaeal), methods or any other tokens of interest from the Open Access articles. Articles available in the S2ORC database, CC BY-NC 2.0, unmodified (Lo et al. 2020). muddy_mine output represents a csv table with all the relevant data regarding mud volcanoes.	Data resources
muddy_db - mud volcano database	Interdisciplinary muddy volcano database.	Data resources

* Related links take you to the related pages in three ELIXIR registries:

bio.tools : a registry of software metadata and descriptions.
FAIRsharing : a registry of databases, standards and policies.
TeSS : a registry of events, training courses and training materials.