DRIIMB

Digital Research Infrastructure for Integrative Molecular Biology

Together with CCPBioSim, CCP-EM and CCP4 we have formed the Digital Research Infrastructure for Integrative Molecular Biology (DRIIMB) consortium. The work is funded through the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), starting in November 2024, initially for two years.

The aim is to link some of the work being done by different Structural Biology based Collaborative Computational Projects. CCPN is currently working particularly closely with CCPBioSim to make it easier to set up restrained and unrestrained molecular dynamics simulations of proteins and peptides for comparison with experimental NMR data.

DRIIMB Integrative Structural Biology Conference

12 – 14 October 2026, Leeds, UK

Details and registration available on the DRIIMB conference webpage.

DRIIMB Webinars

Tony Burdett, Director, BioFAIR UK, Earlham Institute.

Introduction to BioFAIR: National Life Sciences Digital Research Infrastructure

Date: Thursday, 24 September 2026
Time: 15:00–16:00 BST (UK)
Registration: click here to register for the free Zoom link

This webinar will introduce BioFAIR, a UKRI funded initiative to establish a national digital research infrastructure for the life sciences in the UK. BioFAIR has five objectives: Culture Change, to drive adoption of FAIR principles and open data across the UK life sciences; Defragmentation, to increase the coordination, collaboration and cohesiveness of the UK’s life science related data landscape; Access, to enable democratised access to data and data methods; Skills, to attract, develop and retain excellent research data management skills; and Data Reuse, to improve the efficiency of research and enabling new research by increased re-use of data. In this talk, we will explore BioFAIR’s vision for unifying existing research infrastructure via a set of federated national capabilities, explore the BioFAIR philosophy of “reuse, don’t rebuild” and highlight some examples of the outputs from the first year of BioFAIR.

Speaker

Tony is the Director of BioFAIR, which aims to create a collaborative digital research infrastructure to support the sharing and management of life science data. Tony is an experienced leader in bioinformatics, specialising in FAIR data management and delivery of research-enabling services for the life sciences. He has made significant contributions to international scientific collaborations around the development of innovative data solutions. In his previous role as Technical Team Leader at EMBL-EBI, he led a team responsible for the European Nucleotide Archive and the EMBL-EBI’s BioSamples database, ensuring seamless accessibility and sharing of sequencing and multi-omics data for the global life sciences community. He has been responsible for the delivery of large-scale data platforms, both at EMBL-EBI and as part of international consortia such as the Human Cell Atlas. As a lead of the ELIXIR Interoperability Platform, Tony Burdett has also been instrumental in developing sustainable, interoperable data infrastructures across ELIXIR member states and defining innovative approaches to the practical adoption of FAIR principles. With strategic funding from the UKRI Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and Medical Research Council, BioFAIR will establish a cohesive, collaborative digital research infrastructure, delivered from a coordinating hub at the Earlham Institute in Norwich and in partnership with a broad network of UK-based partners.

Past DRIIMB Webinars

Frank Sobott, University of Leeds

Current state of data standards, repositories, and interpretation approaches for structural modelling with mass spectrometry data
https://youtu.be/F2HQCOOpXAU

Helen Berman, Rutgers University and University of Southern California

Building Community Data Resources for Structural Biology
https://youtu.be/MxNFsszwcXM