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Looking back: ELIXIR-CHARME Workshop ‘FAIR Data and Data Stewardship in ELIXIR: How to write your own FAIRy tale

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On 23 March 2017, the ELIXIR Interoperability and Training Platforms organised an ELIXIR-CHARME Workshop ‘FAIR Data and Data Stewardship in ELIXIR: How to write your own FAIRy tale’ at the ELIXIR All Hands meeting in Rome. The organisers were Chris Evelo and Celia van Gelder of ELIXIR-NL. Download the presentations. The workshop was organised in a collaboration between the ELIXIR interoperability and… Continue reading →

Train-the-trainer in clinical bioinformatics and best practices workshop 3-5 July Cambridge UK

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An ELIXIR EXCELERATE Train-the-Trainer in Clinical bioinformatics and HEE best practices workshop will be held in Cambridge UK, 3-5 July 2017. The aim of the course is to provide new trainers with guidance and tips for developing and delivering training in bioinformatics to clinical audiences. This will be followed by a best practices workshop, providing an opportunity for people already involved in… Continue reading →

25 April 2017: Workshop Future of Metabolomics in ELIXIR

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ELIXIR-NL and ELIXIR-DE are jointly organising a one-day strategic workshop on the ‘Future of Metabolomics in ELIXIR’ on 25 April 2017 at Frankfurt Airport in Germany. This is done in collaboration with the PhenoMeNal H2020 e-infrastructure project and the Netherlands Metabolomics Centre. The programme is designed to allow same-day travel in and out. The workshop will build on the outcomes of a… Continue reading →

Watch the video about ELIXIR’s resources

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ELIXIR Europe has produced a video to present some of ELIXIR’s resources and their impact. You can watch the video on YouTube. ELIXIR unites Europe’s leading life science organisations in managing and safeguarding the increasing volume of data being generated by publicly funded research. DTL hosts the Dutch node of ELIXIR.

ELIXIR community meets in Rome: ELIXIR 2017 All Hands meeting

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Last month, ELIXIR held its 3rd All Hands meeting in Rome, Italy. Hosting nearly 300 participants from ELIXIR nodes and partner organisations, the meeting presented the work of ELIXIR Platforms and Use Cases and reviewed the progress over the past 12 months. Read the report about the event, including links to slides and photos.

Looking back on the first ELIXIR Galaxy Developer Workshop

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Galaxy is an open, web-based platform for data-intensive biomedical research. On 16-19 January 2017, the first European Galaxy Developer Workshop took place in Strasbourg. ELIXIR-NL and the Dutch Galaxy Working Group were actively involved in the workshop’s organisation. Galaxy Training, in both the Dutch and European context, is one of the key focus areas of DTL’s training and education activities. The objectives for the workshop… Continue reading →

ELIXIR All Hands meeting 2017

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WORKSHOPS INTEROPERABILITY & TRAINING   On Thursday March 23, 2017 two workshops will be organised at the All Hands meeting of ELIXIR in Rome by the Interoperability and Training Platforms. Both workshops offer a half-day programme, which together form a full day with contributions related to FAIR principles and Data Stewardship. However, participants can also register separately for each half-day… Continue reading →

On data challenges in agricultural science

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Dr Ernst van den Ende and Dr Richard Finkers of Wageningen UR are on top of the recent developments in the field of agricultural science. “Growing enough food sustainably for the expanding world population presents a formidable challenge. We will need sophisticated data handling techniques to face this challenge,” says Van den Ende. Van den Ende is the Director of… Continue reading →

BioSchemas supports the discovery of public datasets

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Guidelines recently published by Google for the discovery of science datasets help data providers to describe their datasets in a structured way using schema.org, enabling internet search engines to find and index rich metadata to better present scientific datasets. The published guidelines draw on the metadata specifications for life science datasets developed by BioSchemas. BioSchemas is an open community initiative driven… Continue reading →