Flash talks from the ELIXIR Community @ ELIXIR All Hands

The Flash talks from the ELIXIR Community @ ELIXIR All Hands will consist of three sessions taking place in parallel.

Each talk will last 5 minutes with 5 minutes for questions. 

Session 1 (Room: M212, level M2)

Chaired by Andy Jenkinson (ELIXIR Hub) with focus on Tools and Compute, and include the following talks:

• Turnkey appliances for biological use cases on federated clouds, Bryan Brancotte (ELIXIR France)
• Compute and storage requirements for META-pipe, Lars Ailo Bongo (ELIXIR Norway)
• Defining the ELIXIR AAI strategy, Mikael Linden (ELIXIR Finland)
• bio.tools : status & plans, Jon Ison (ELIXIR Denmark)
• Beyond a mere registry of structural bioinformatics tools - Continuous Automated Model EvaluatiOn (CAMEO), Juergen Haas (ELIXIR Switzerland)
• Docker containers for software provisioning, Abdulrahman Azab (ELIXIR Norway)

Session 2 (Room: M213, level M2) 

Chaired by Celia van Gelder (ELIXIR Netherlands) with focus on Training, and include the following talks:

• Prioritising ELIXIR training for service providers, Hedi Petersen (ELIXIR Estonia)
• A MOOC for parallel and distributed computing in Life sciences, Isabelle Perseil (ELIXIR France)
• TeSS: The Training eSupport System, Niall Beard (ELIXIR UK)
• Node collaboration through the ELIXIR e-learning platform, Eija Korpelainen & Brane Leskošek (ELIXIR Finland & ELIXIR Slovenia)  
• The ELIXIR-ITA training programme: a growing support to national and international research in life sciences, Allegra Via (ELIXIR Italy)      
• Recent developments towards a Belgium ELIXIR training network, Frederik Coppens (ELIXIR Belgium)       

Session 3 (Room: M214, level M2) 

Chaired by Ilkka Lappalainen (ELIXIR-Finland) with focus on Data and Capacity Building, and include the following talks:

• InterPro: ELIXIR and immortality of protein family resources, Rob Finn (EMBL-EBI)
• GA4GH metadata challenges: Everything but the sequence?, Michael Baudis (ELIXIR Switzerland)
• Integrating European Genome-phenome Archive with Galaxy, Alexander Senf (EMBL-EBI)
• NGP-net: A COST Action dedicated to building a community and resources for non-globular protein research, Silvio Tosatto (ELIXIR Italy)
• Does ELIXIR need an ontology? Jiri Vondrasek and Robert Pergl (ELIXIR Czech Republic)