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DTL on track: kick-off DTL and ELIXIR-NL

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On 1 December 2014, DTL organised ‘DTL on track’, the DTL and ELIXIR-NL kick-off event in the Rijtuigenloods in Amersfoort. A range of activities highlighted what the DTL Data, Technologies, and Learning programmes have to offer. Furthermore, the floor was given to partner organisations to co-create the event with us. The actual festive kickoff of DTL and the launch of… Continue reading →

SIB opens call for international SIB Awards 2015

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The SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics announces three SIB Awards 2015, two of which are open for the international bioinformatics community. SIB International Young Bioinformatician Award 2015 This award recognizes the excellent and promising young career of a scientist, or a project he/she has carried out, or a paper he/she has published in the field of bioinformatics or computational biology. The award… Continue reading →

Five year programme ELIXIR published

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ELIXIR’s scientific and technical Programme for 2014 – 2018 has now been published. The programme sets out the focus of activities that ELIXIR partners will carry out over the current five-year period. It was developed by over 100 scientists from across ELIXIR partner organisations. DTL, the Dutch Node of ELIXIR, will be involved in the data interoperability, training, and e-infrastructure programmes of work.

ELIXIR priority project on ESFRI roadmap

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On May 26, the Council of the European Union adopted the outcome of the ESFRI prioritisation and identified ELIXIR as one of the the three projects ready for immediate action and of strategic importance for Europe. The other ones are the European Spallation Source (ESS) and the Earth Plate Observing System (EPOS). Niklas Blomberg, ELIXIR director, is overjoyed by the outcome, “This is of course of immense value to ELIXIR,… Continue reading →

DTL and ELIXIR endorse Data Citation Principles

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DTL and ELIXIR both actively support the Data Citation Principles created by Force11. Force11 is a community of scholars, librarians, archivists, publishers and research funders that has arisen organically to help facilitate the change toward improved knowledge creation and sharing. Their aim is to bring about a change in modern scholarly communications through the effective use of information technology. DTL… Continue reading →

ELIXIR-NL newsflash May 2014

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After formal approval of the Dutch node in ELIXIR (ELIXIR-NL) at the board meeting in Helsinki (7-8 april 2014) a joint meeting of the Heads of Nodes (HoN) and the technical coordinators (TC) of the various nodes and the hub took place in Sandham (Sweden, 6-8 May). In alternating joint and separate meetings, the HoN and TC’s discussed many issues,… Continue reading →

Dutch ELIXIR Node officially established

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ELIXIR-NL was officially approved and formally established at the first ELIXIR Board meeting earlier this month, together with the ELIXIR Nodes of Denmark, Estonia, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK, the Czech Republic and EMBL-EBI. The Dutch Node is hosted and coordinated by DTL. During the meeting a template Collaboration Agreement was adopted. This agreement will form the basis for individual… Continue reading →

Netherlands joins international ELIXIR consortium on biological data

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Utrecht, 3 February 2014 On the 28th of January 2014, the Dutch State Secretary for Education, Culture and Science, Sander Dekker, has ratified the international ELIXIR Consortium Agreement (ECA). This makes The Netherlands the seventh country – and eighth formal member of the ELIXIR research infrastructure with the tagline ‘Data for Life’.  Data for Life As the tagline suggests, the… Continue reading →

ELIXIR launched as a legal entity

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On 18 December 2013, ELIXIR enters its permanent phase as Estonia becomes the fifth country to ratify the ELIXIR Consortium Agreement. This marks the formal launch of the infrastructure for biological data in Europe, supporting life science research and its translation to medicine, the bioindustries and society. ELIXIR today becomes an independent legal entity as Estonia joins the United Kingdom,… Continue reading →