de.NBI/ELIXIR-DE Guidelines for Node Services Selection Process and Quality Management

The de.NBI network is a bioinformatics service provider that serves life science research community nationally and all across Europe. The de.NBI service portfolio contains over 100 bioinformatics tools and several internationally renowned databases, two of which are ELIXIR Core Data Resources. To ensure excellence and maximum benefit to life science researchers, de.NBI services need to be dynamic, relevant, up-to-date, and reflect the ever changing needs of the users and the community they serve. To ensure these requirements, services that are a part of the existing service portfolio need to be continually assessed and maintained in order to guarantee active and satisfactory performance in compliance with excellent scientific standards. The de.NBI network aims at stablishing a set of quality assurance criteria for the assessment and maintenance of its service portfolio. The procedure is set to facilitate the monitoring and constant evaluation of the existing services, as well as help in the process of endorsing new ones