Key Contributors update 11 May 2018

This update is sent weekly on Friday afternoon and goes to ELIXIR key stakeholders. It contains requests for actions regarding operations and developments within ELIXIR. Contact joana.wingender@elixir-europe.org for any questions.

An ELIXIR HoNs shared folder including meeting materials from HoN meetings, reference documents, slides & graphics archive can be found on google drive.

For action

New

This month's Human Data Communities teleconference will include presentation of an updated delivery timeline for Local EGA from the project lead, Jordi Rambla (ELIXIR-ES). The TC will take place on Tuesday, 15 May at 11 a.m. BST (12 p.m. CEST). Please notify Gary Saunders if you, or a Human Data expert from your Node, would like to join the TC. If you are unable to join the TC, please add any relevant question(s) from your Node that you would like to ask directly into the agenda.

For action

Ongoing

Final Reminder! Last chance to submit an abstract to the ELIXIR Application Track at ECCB 2018. Deadline: 15 May
As approved by the Board, in this year's Work Plan we have allocated funds for Community-led Implementation Studies. To ensure a transparent process driven by scientific excellence we will use the ELIXIR Board approved process for internal tendering (ELIXIR/2015/27.1) to select a small portfolio of Implementation Studies.

We are developing the request for proposals and will bring it to the HoN for approval at the HoN meeting at the All-Hands meeting in June. We then expect to open the request for proposals in Q3/2018. The ELIXIR Communities and Services Coordinator, John Hancock, is coordinating this project.

In preparation for the call, please suggest potential reviewers for these Implementation Studies. Reviewers should be senior, active researchers who are not current participants in ELIXIR. They should have background and expertise in infrastructure services and in particular expertise relating to the existing seven ELIXIR Communities: Galaxy, Human Data, Marine Metagenomics, Metabolomics, Proteomics, Plant Science and Rare Diseases.

Please send suggestions to John Hancock by the end of May 2018.

For information

We would like to thank the Heads of Nodes / Deputy HoNs who attended the Core Data Resource Consensus Ranking meeting on 9 May in Schipol. The meeting was highly successful and we are grateful to those who attended for their time and insights. We are now processing the feedback for the applicants, which is to be sent by e-mail next week.
The RItrain project is organising an interactive workshop for Research Infrastructures (RIs) to cooperate on equality, diversity and inclusion in the workplace. The agenda will be shaped by the needs and priorities of the participating RIs, but the overall workshop aims are for participants to:

Increase knowledge and understanding of the full spectrum of equality, diversity and inclusion
Network and exchange experiences with other RIs on their status and challenges
Identify best practices
Create or revise an RI-specific action plan

The workshop is to take place from 29-30 October 2018 (TBC) at EMBL-EBI, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK. There is no registration fee, participants are expected to cover their travel and accommodation costs.

Register your interest here or contact Claire Johnson for further information.

IMI Call 14 open


The Innovative Medicines Initiative has four topics currently open within Call 14. The Topic on the 'Development of a platform for federated and privacy-preserving machine learning in support of drug discovery' may be of interest to ELIXIR Nodes. Full details are available on the IMI website.
Deadline for submission: June 14

Key dates and meetings

Heads of Nodes meeting @ ELIXIR All Hands

  • 6-7 June 2018, Berlin, Germany

Heads of Nodes meeting @ ECCB 2018

  • 13 September 2018, Athens, Greece.

ELIXIR Board meeting

  • 12-13 November 2018 | Ljubljana, Slovenia

ELIXIR 5th Anniversary event

  • 11 December 2018, Brussels, Belgium

Heads of Nodes meeting

  • 12 December 2018, Brussels, Belgium