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. Links to further information are in blue. Contact nicola.kay@elixir-europe.org for any questions.
For Action
NEW As ELIXIR has expanded the portfolio of Implementation Studies - we have about 20 studies currently underway - the question has arisen as to what is the role of the Platform Coordinators in running those projects.
Accordingly the Hub has put together some principles that address that question and hopefully clarify what is expected of the Platform Coordinators in all aspects of Implementation Studies. Interested parties are invited to review the principles document here.
For Action
ONGOING ELIXIR SAB REGISTRATION AND AGENDA
Please register by the end of today for the ELIXIR SAB meeting taking place in Hinxton, 1-2 February 2018.
HoNs are expected to be in attendance at the meeting. In addition, each Platform is expected to send a representative to present at the meeting. A full agenda is available here. Logistics information can be found via the registration page. Other documents for the meeting will follow in due course. WIDENING NODE PARTICIPATION IN IMPLEMENTATION STUDIES
As agreed by the Heads of Nodes in December 5, the Hub is now asking Nodes to prepare applications for resources to participate in Implementation Studies included in 2018 Work Plan. Instructions and the template for the applications are here. The application must be submitted by the Head of Node and the deadline is 31 January. For any questions, please contact Susanna.
For information
Minutes from the additional ELIXIR Heads of Nodes TC to discuss the INFRAEOSC-4 proposal and agree on ELIXIR participation earlier this week are now available. Please send any comments on the minutes to nicola.kay@elixir-europe.org by Friday 2 February.
We are pleased to announce that 3 new Platform Coordinators will be joining the Hub over the next couple of months.
Jen Harrow will be joining in early February as the Tools Platform Coordinator.
Jen joins us from Illumina, where she was Program Manager for Population Genomics, primarily involved in collaborating with Genomics England to develop an Interpretation Platform for Cancer and Rare Disease. Prior to this, she was PI of the GENCODE project at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, producing the curated human and mouse reference gene sets as part of the ENCODE project.
Sira Sarntivijai will joining in early March as the Interoperability Platform Coordinator
Sira joins us from the EBI Samples, Phenotypes, and Ontologies Team where she oversees the ontology mapping and normalisation in Open Targets, and Human Cell Atlas. She specialises in metadata standardisation, and linked-data implementation.
Jonathan Tedds will be joining in early April as the Compute Platform Coordinator
Jonathan Tedds joins us from the University of Leicester where he has led the development of the integrated open source BRISSKit biomedical research software platform. He has used his substantial experience of data intensive astrophysics research to go on and lead a range of projects in health research data informatics, research data management and publishing.
Key dates and meetings
ELIXIR SAB meeting
- 1-2 February 2018, Hinxton, UK (Platforms expected to present draft plans)
Heads of Nodes TC
- 2 March 2018, 13.00-16.00 UK time /14.00-17.00 CET
ELIXIR Board meeting
- 24-25 April 2018 | Tel Aviv
ELIXIR Core Data Resouece selection - Consensus Ranking meeting
- 9 May 2018 | Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Heads of Nodes meeting @ ELIXIR All Hands
- 6-7 June 2018, Berlin, Germany
Heads of Nodes meeting @ ECCB 2018
- to be held alongside ECCB conference taking place 912 September 2018 in Athens, Greece. Time/date TBC.
Board meeting
- 12-13 November 2018 | Ljubljana, Slovenia
Heads of Nodes TC
- 7 December 2018, 13.00-16.00 UK time /14.00-17.00 CET