Brief overview of the FAIRcookbook, a work just started under the the IMI FAIRplus project

1. The FAIR Cookbook
working with biopharmas
Susanna-Assunta Sansone, PhD
Associate Professor, Engineering Science
Associate Director, Oxford e-Research Centre
EOSC Symposium, Budapest, 15-29 November 2019
datareadiness.eng.ox.ac.uk

2. The way biopharma works has changed
Big
Life
Science
Company
Last century Yesterday Today & tomorrow
Last century Yesterday Today & tomorrow
Innovation Model Innovation inside Searching for Innovation Heterogeneity of collaborations; part of the
wider ecosystem
IT Internal apps & data Struggling with change
security and trust
Cloud services, AI
Data Mostly inside In and out Distributed
Portfolio Internally driven and owned Partially shared Shared portfolio
Modification of a slide credit to:
Big
Life
Science
Company
Proprietary
content
providers
Public
content
providers
Academic
groups
Software vendors
CROs
Service providers
Regulatory
authorities

3. • Biopharma R&D productivity can be improved
by implementing the FAIR Principles
• FAIR enables powerful new AI analytics to
access data for machine learning and prediction
• The Pistoia Alliance supports sharing of best
practices for FAIR implementation
Credit to:
Ian Harrow,
FAIR & OM projects
FAIR as enabler for the digital transformation

4. Define, document and implement
a data FAIRification process
PPPs, funded from 2019 to 2022

5. Example of a recipe: P. Rocca-Serra and S.A. Sansone https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3274256 - Scientific Data (in press)
• Content and learning outcomes:
o recipes on how to FAIRify a number of
exemplar datasets, putting the FAIR principles
in practices;
o learn about levels and indicators of FAIRness;
o maturity model, technologies and tools
available to assess and improve FAIRness;
o learn about the skills required, as well as the
challenges
• Collaborative writing:
https://fairplus.github.io/the-fair-cookbook/intro
o CC-BY-4.0
o Markdown and jupyter-tool
o Leads: P. Rocca-Serra (Oxford);
A. Splendiani (Novartis)