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 As discussed at the HoN Retreat, we now have an opportunity to add more Nodes to the two Strategic Implementation Studies that are scheduled to begin in June. Please contact the below indicated Hub member, by Thu, 23 May if your Node is interested in joining the:
1) Federated Human Data project (gary.saunders@elixir-europe.org);
2) Deploying Reproducible Containers and Workflows Across Cloud
Environments project (jen.harrow@elixir-europe.org).
The timeline to develop the additional plans is short, so Heads of Nodes are asked to take prompt action if interested in joining these studies. At the Heads of Nodes Retreat in Woking this week, it was agreed ELIXIR would establish a Biodiversity Working Group, with the broad aim to capitalise on the opportunities in this area. Heads of Nodes are thus invited to nominate one or more key contacts from their Node, if their Node is interested in becoming involved in this effort. Please send names to Jerry Lanfear (jerry.lanfear@elixir-europe.org) by Wed, 29 May.
For action
Ongoing An emerging Community has developed a draft strategic paper for future consideration by the Heads of Nodes and publication in the ELIXIR F1000Research channel.
- Draft strategic paper from the Structural Bioinformatics (3DBioinfo) Community
The document is open for comments until Thu, 13 June, after which date the document will be closed for comments. If you have any questions, please contact John Hancock (john.hancock@elixir-europe.org).
For information
Thank you to the Heads of Nodes for joining us at the HoN Retreat in Woking this week!
We would like to thank Heads of Nodes for filling in the Doodles regarding the 2020 and 2021 HoN Retreats. We are pleased to announce the 2020 Heads of Nodes Retreat has been scheduled to take place 6-7 May 2020.
The Retreat will take place at the Talbot Inn in Woking (Heathrow), UK.
Key dates and meetings
Heads of Nodes meeting (additional)
- 18 June 2019, Lisbon, Portugal @ All Hands
Heads of Nodes TC
- 11 September 2019
Heads of Nodes TC
- 5 December 2019