September 2016 ELIXIR Belgium monthly brief Welcome to the monthly ELIXIR Belgium e-newsletter. Please send your news, updates and events for inclusion to the ELIXIR Belgium coordinator: kim.deruyck@elixir-belgium.org . If you have colleagues involved or interested in ELIXIR but not yet receiving updates please let us know! Updates The ELIXIR Belgium website is online. Check it out at www.elixir-belgium.org ! The site gives an overview of our current partners and stakeholders, services offered by the Belgian node and events & trainings organised. Our first ELIXIR training meeting will take place on the 28th of September 2016 in Brussels. Representatives of 11 different Belgium institutes will be present! Goal of this meeting is to build a bioinformatics training network in Belgium. This network will increase the visibility of offered training courses in Belgium and will enable the exchange of experiences and training material. Upcoming events Meetings and Conferences organised by ELIXIR.BE partners 7-8 November 2016 | BELSPO, Brussels ELIXIR data workshop with focus on genomics 14-17 November 2016 | Free University of Brussels, Brussels NGS 2016 Benelux, organised by (IB)² and Genome Diagnostics Nijmegen ELIXIR related Workshops and Courses organised by other ELIXIR Nodes 26-28 September 2016 | Leiden, Netherlands NGS Course: RNA-seq data analysis, 2016 (6th edition) 26-30 September 2016 | Bari, Italy Training course "Python for Life Scientists" 29-30 September | Lausanne, Switzerland EPD 30th Anniversary Symposium 20-21 October 2016 | Barcelona, Spain BioExcel: workflow training for computational biomolecular research 20-21 October 2016 | Freiburg, Germany Swiss German Galaxy Tour/Day 2016 25-26 October 2016 | Rome, Italy Combined CHARME – EMBnet and NETTAB 2016 Workshop, ‘Reproducibility, standards and SOP in bioinformatics‘ 26-28 October 2016 | Berlin, Germany 1st conference of the European Association of Systems Medicine 1-3 November 2016 | Hinxton, UK Exploring biological sequence data - training course 1-3 November 2016 | Maastricht, Netherlands BYOD event on WikiPathways , nanopub.org , and Rett Syndrome 31 Oct-3 Nov 2016 | Heraklion, Crete Variant Effect Prediction Training Course Mailing list for all ELIXIR Belgium stakeholders. Our mailing address is: ELIXIR Belgium VIB, Department of Plant Systems Biology, Technologiepark 927, 9052 Ghent, Belgium @ELIXIRnodeBE | www.elixir-belgium.org
