Aditi represented SyNergy at the 2nd Conference on Research Data Infrastructure (CoRDI 2025), organised by the NFDI at RWTH Aachen University from August 26th to 28th. As SyNergy’s data manager, she presented a poster on our research data infrastructure and services, while connecting with the wider RDM community. The event offered valuable insights into tools, standards, and services that can support SyNergy researchers in managing their data more effectively.

Below are some highlights gathered by Aditi that may be of interest (feel free to reach out to her directly if you’d like to chat about any of them in more depth):

DATABASES & ARCHIVES

re3data.org:Global registry of research data repositories

• Find suitable repositories for your data
  
• Community profiles to highlight curated repository sets
  
• Open metadata accessible via API

• Archival of raw/processed files with harmonised metadata
  
• FAIR workflows (variant calling, long-read, rare disease RNA-seq)
  
• Consent modules & legacy consent toolkit for GDPR compliance
  

SERVICES & INFRASTRUCTURES 

NFDI4Health: National research data infrastructure for personal health data

• Metadata standards, consent templates, and guidelines
  
• Central Study Hub for making projects/findings visible
  
• Privacy-preserving analysis with DataSHIELD and the Personal Health Train
  

Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration (HMC): Platform promoting FAIR research data by developing metadata concepts and technologies across Helmholtz Centres

DataPLAN (DataPLANT): Wizard for creating Data Management Plans with pre-written building blocks and funding-specific templates

ANALYSIS PLATFORMS & TOOLS

Galaxy Project | usegalaxy.eu: Browser-based platform with thousands of tools for reproducible, no-code data analysis

Bioimage Analysis Tools:

• BAND and BARD: Cloud desktops for bioimage analysis
• NFDI4BIOIMAGE and I3D:bio: FAIR image data management, OMERO deployment support, knowledge hub and training
  

OME-Zarr: A cloud-optimised format developed by German BioImaging for efficient storage and retrieval of large imaging datasets

TRAINING & COMMUNITY RESOURCES

DALIA (Data Literacy Alliance): Open knowledge base by the NFDI, for FAIR data training and data literacy, offering curated pathways and teaching materials

German Reproducibility Network (GRN): Promotes robust, transparent research through training, best-practice guidelines, and meta-research

mTeSS-X (OSCARS project): Extension of ELIXIR’s TeSS training portal that enables content sharing across communities for a federated training ecosystem

EMERGING TOOLS TO WATCH OUT FOR (in development)

MLentory (NFDI4DataScience): FAIR registry for machine learning models and artefacts, with APIs and AI-assisted search

KONDA: LLM-based tool for semantic annotation and knowledge graph creation

Plot Serializer (PloSe): Converts scientific diagrams into FAIR data for reuse