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) 
 
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