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 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.
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 action
Ongoing
Final Reminder! The draft ELIXIR 2019-23 Programme was shared with the ELIXIR Board for the Board meeting that took place from 24-25 April in Tel Aviv. We welcome Nodes to submit feedback on the draft. Please send compiled feedback from your Node to Susanna Repo.
Deadline: Today
Deadline: Today
Final Reminder! ELIXIR is planning to hold up to 8 Workshops over three days (8-10 September) at the ECCB 2018 in Athens, Greece. Platforms and Use Cases can submit a Workshop proposal to Jerry Lanfear by 7 May. More information under the following link.
Deadline: 7 May
ELIXIR Platforms and Use Cases are also invited to submit a talk to the ELIXIR Applications Track at ECCB 2018. We have launched a call for abstracts, so everybody in ELIXIR can submit their proposal for the ELIXIR session. However, ELIXIR Platforms and Use Cases are strongly encouraged to coordinate their submissions. The talks can be based on presentations for the ELIXIR All Hands, provided they are targeted to general bioinformatics audience and not specifically to ELIXIR members. More information under the following link and at http://eccb18.org/elixir-applications/.
Deadline: 7 May
ELIXIR Platforms and Use Cases are also invited to submit a talk to the ELIXIR Applications Track at ECCB 2018. We have launched a call for abstracts, so everybody in ELIXIR can submit their proposal for the ELIXIR session. However, ELIXIR Platforms and Use Cases are strongly encouraged to coordinate their submissions. The talks can be based on presentations for the ELIXIR All Hands, provided they are targeted to general bioinformatics audience and not specifically to ELIXIR members. More information under the following link and at http://eccb18.org/elixir-applications/.
For information
The Heads of Nodes, or their appointed Deputies, will meet for the Core Data Resource Consensus Ranking Meeting next Wednesday, 9 May, at Schiphol Airport. Participants are reminded that all materials have been circulated (Email Subject: "Agenda and materials for ELIXIR HoNs, 9 May 2018") and paper copies will not be provided at the meeting. If participants require paper copies on the day, please print them prior to the meeting.
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.
Key dates and meetings
ELIXIR Core Data Resource 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
- 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