The EU-funded AI4LIFE project aims to facilitate life scientists’ access to FAIR and open data, focusing especially on AI-powered image analysis methods. To that end, it will develop an open platform hosting FAIR pre-trained AI models which can be easily accessed without requiring advanced computer skills. The new platform will prepare life scientists to handle AI methods responsibly, while also enabling interoperability between different analysis tools.
A Horizon Europe project
Project dates: 1st September 2022 to 31st August 2027
EMBRC role : partner
Funding: €4,141,167.50
Grant agreement number: 101057970
To enable the life science communities to benefit from AI/ML-powered image analysis methods, AI4LIFE will build bridges, providing urgently needed services on the common European research infrastructures. It will build an open, accessible, community-driven repository of FAIR pre-trained AI models and develop services to deliver these models to life scientists, including those without substantial computational expertise. AI4Life direct support and ample training activities will prepare life scientists for responsible use of AI methods, while contributor services and open standards will drive community contributions of new models and interoperability between analysis tools. Open calls and public challenges will provide state-of-the-art solutions to yet unsolved image analysis problems in the life sciences.
The consortium brings together AI/ML researchers, developers of popular open source image analysis tools, providers of European-scale storage and compute services and European life sciences Research Infrastructures -- all united behind the common goal to enable life scientists to fully benefit from the untapped but potentially tremendous power of AI-based analysis methods
