LifeWatch is a pan-European e-infrastructure deployed for the study of biodiversity and ecosystems. Its goal is to provide researchers with tools and databases useful for the understanding and management of ecosystems. The SZN is the Italian partner, operating in the Services Centre of RI, which links state-of-the-art ICT with the needs of biodiversity and ecosystem research and contributes to the Italian JRU of LifeWatch.
SZN is the co-coordinator of the Biomolecular Topic Centre (BTC) within the service centre providing access to the tools for genomic, metagenomics, phylogenetic and DNA-barcoding analyses, as well as to existing databases. The research communities associated to SZN will benefit from the infrastructure through the use of tools and services on-line service centre and through the participation of the topic centres and user groups.
