Watch the video about the ELIXIR Training Platform

ELIXIR has released a video about its Training Platform. European life science researchers can be confused by what bioinformatics training is available and has direct relevance to their work and career. ELIXIR captures training opportunities in TeSS, a website that makes training easier to discover and, with international partners, is addressing the current shortages of trainers, training events and training materials.… Continue reading

GOBLET will curate F1000 Bioinformatics Training & Education collection

GOBLET (the Global Organisation for Bioinformatics Learning, Education, and Traning) is working with F1000 to become the champion of the F1000 Bioinformatics Education and Training collection. DTL’s Celia van Gelder is one of the collection advisors. Please get in touch if you would like certain Education & Training materials (F1000R articles, reports, white papers, posters, slides etc.) to be included in this collection: info@mygoblet.org… Continue reading

Call for papers & abstracts: 14th IEEE International Conference on eScience

Science in a digital world presents new opportunities and challenges. The 14th IEEE eScience Conference brings together leading international researchers and research software engineers from all disciplines to present and discuss how digital technology impacts scientific practice. They are pleased to invite contributions for inclusion in the conference programme. Please find all information regarding the calls and submission guidelines at www.eScience2018.com.… Continue reading

11 April: ELIXIR webinar on the Proteome Implementation Study

In an ELIXIR webinar on 11 April 2018 14:00 GMT, Juan Antonio Vizcaino (EMBL-EBI) will present the outcomes from the Proteome Implementation Study, to develop robust and automated proteomics analysis pipelines that can be deployed in a cloud environment and be reused openly by the scientific community. Join the webinar. ELIXIR Webinars usually take place every third Wednesday of the… Continue reading

New Implementation Study on metabolite identification

ELIXIR-NL will coordinate a new Implementation Study on metabolite identification. The study will start on 1 June 2018 and run for a one and a half year period. Merlijn van Rijswijk (DTL Technologies Programme Manager) explains: “The Implementation Study aims to deliver a metabolite identification workflow. It is led by Thomas Hankemeier of Leiden University and coordinated by me. Egon Willighagen and… Continue reading

Making an Impact with Open Science: TU Delft MOOC

The TU Delft offers a MOOC ‘Making an Impact with Open Science ‘. This course aims to help you become a more visible and impactful researcher by reaping the benefits from Open Science principles. Read more. You will learn the basic concepts of Open Science, the advantages it brings for you as a researcher and for science in general, and… Continue reading

Research infrastructure is key component of Dutch Research Roadmaps for health

‘Now is the time to invest heavily in order to solve the major societal challenges related to health’. That is the key message of three Research Roadmaps that Ernst Kuipers (Chair of the NFU) handed over to Ingrid van Engelshoven (Minister of Education, Culture, and Science) and Paul Blokhuis (State Secretary for Health, Welfare and Sport) on 22 March 2018. Health-RI features prominently in… Continue reading