D4Science is a hybrid data infrastructure, hosted by CNR Italy, designed to support scientific collaboration and resource sharing across various domains, including biology, ecology, environmental studies, social sciences. Established in 2014, it connects over 24,000 scientists from 50+ countries, integrates data from 50+ providers, and provides access to over a billion records in global repositories. Its key feature is the provision of Virtual Research Environments (VREs) and Virtual Laboratory (VLab), web-based platforms tailored to specific community needs. D4Science is notably used by Blue Cloud 2026.
A Memorandum Of Understanding (MoU) was signed between Blue Cloud 2026
and FAIR-EASE in November 2024, to strengthen collaboration between the
two projects. This led to the creation of a FAIR-EASE VRE, including the
launch of a dedicated gateway
(https://
Figure 1:FAIR-EASE VRE home page on D4Science
Figure 2:Marine Omics Observation VLAB on D4Science
For the Marine Omics Observation VLAB, we collaborated with the
D4Science team to provide a Galaxy service that enables the chaining of
predefined tools. This instance is available at
https://
Figure 3:Galaxy project service on D4Science
For Coastal Water Dynamics, we collaborated with D4Science team to
provide a webODV server providing access to satellite data as well as
reanalysis model output in the form of netCDF files:
https://
The IDDAS is also available as a VRE widget inside the FAIR-EASE VRE on D4Science as illustrated in Figure below. The asset selector, like the current web version of the IDDAS, allows for discovery and access to the assets harvested from the data infrastructures. It is possible to push the assets into the user’s local workspace in their virtual lab to conduct their analysis, or use for input to their models and services. The asset selector includes a human readable as well as a machine accessible interface with similar functionalities as the IDDAS.
Figure 4:Access point of IDDAS from the FAIR-EASE EAL on D4Science