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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><b><span style="font-size:16pt;line-height:107%" lang="EN-GB">Launch Meeting for a proposed ELIXIR
Community in Structural Bioinformatics <span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:107%" lang="EN-GB">Basel, Friday October 19<sup>th</sup>
2018<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:107%" lang="EN-GB"><span> </span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-GB">This
meeting will discuss a proposed new ELIXIR Community in Structural
Bioinformatics – </span><b><span style="font-size:14pt;color:black" lang="EN-GB">3DBioInfo</span></b><b><span style="color:black" lang="EN-GB">.</span></b><span style="color:black" lang="EN-GB"> ELIXIR
Communities enable the participation of communities of practice in different
areas of the life sciences in the activities of ELIXIR, which underpin the
evolution of a data, tools, interoperability, compute and training
infrastructure for European life science informatics (see
<a href="https://www.elixir-europe.org/use-cases">https://www.elixir-europe.org/use-cases</a>). ELIXIR supports its formally
recognised Communities by providing funding for workshops and short
collaborative projects associated with the Community.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-GB"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><span lang="EN-GB">Structural bioinformatics has a broad
impact across the life sciences and provides tools to archive, visualise,
analyse, annotate, and predict molecular structures. The science of structural
bioinformatics is traditionally very strong in Europe offering many software
tools, methodologies, and databases, as well as community-wide prediction challenges.
Its applications cover research activities from structural biology to drug
discovery and personalised medicine that are all well represented within the
national ELIXIR nodes.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><span lang="EN-GB">At the meeting we will have presentations
from structural bioinformatics groups engaged in or planning ELIXIR endorsed
activities around structure based analyses and prediction methods. There will
also be presentations from other ELIXIR communities with related interests and
from ELIXIR platforms with guidance on how structural bioinformatics groups can
collaborate with ELIXIR support. Importantly, we will have a session planning
the activities and aims that will form the basis of a white paper to submit to
the ELIXIR hub for endorsement as a Community in Structural Bioinformatics.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><span lang="EN-GB">This meeting will be held on Friday 19<sup>th</sup>
October, the day after the SWISS-MODEL 25<sup>th</sup> Anniversary Symposium,
being held at the same venue. <b>It is not
necessary to register for the SWISS-MODEL meeting to attend the 3D-BioInfo
meeting. <span></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><b><span lang="EN-GB">The
meeting will start at 10.00 am and end at 5.30pm.<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><b><span lang="EN-GB">There
will be a cost of 50 CHF to register for the meeting.<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><span lang="EN-GB">The meeting will be capped at 100
participants so please register soon to avoid disappointment.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Registration
site:<span> </span><a href="https://swissmodel.expasy.org/25years/elixir">https://swissmodel.expasy.org/25years/elixir</a><span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Call
for abstracts and posters</span></b><span lang="EN-GB">: If you would like to
give a flash talk (one slide) to advertise a poster at the meeting on a
proposed ELIXIR activity (involving collaborations across two or more groups
within an ELIXIR node and preferably involving two or more nodes) please send a
summary (maximum one page) to <a href="mailto:c.orengo@ucl.ac.uk" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline">c.orengo@ucl.ac.uk</a>
outlining the groups and ELIXIR nodes involved and the ELIXIR platforms this
activity would relate to i.e. interoperability, data, tools, compute or
training. The proposed activity should ideally involve two or more
platforms.<span> </span><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Deadline
for the abstracts: September 30th<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><span lang="EN-GB">Ideas presented at the meeting will be
considered for inclusion in the application to become an ELIXIR Community. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Further
information<span></span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><span lang="EN-GB">For information on the timelines for
forming an ELIXIR Community in Structural Bioinformatics please see: <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/10a5PTWA8b00i7jYeuyOQQ0OXdn-EUoUI/view?usp=sharing">https://drive.google.com/file/d/10a5PTWA8b00i7jYeuyOQQ0OXdn-EUoUI/view?usp=sharing</a><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><span lang="EN-GB">For information on suggested major themes
and activities of the 3D-BioInfo Community – please see link below. You are
welcome to add comments to the document on additional activities.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/10DYf1uMg9jaHFOGX7gvKsHIAVRRwqyx1/view?usp=sharing">https://drive.google.com/file/d/10DYf1uMg9jaHFOGX7gvKsHIAVRRwqyx1/view?usp=sharing</a><span></span></span></p>
<div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"> <br>Yours<br><br>Arne<br><i><br></i>-----------------------------------------<br> Arne Elofsson Science for Life Laboratory<br> Tel:+46-(0)70 695 1045 Stockholm University<br> <a href="http://bioinfo.se/" target="_blank">http://bioinfo.se/</a> Box 1031, <br> Email: <a href="mailto:arne@bioinfo.se" target="_blank">arne@bioinfo.se</a> 17121 Solna, Sweden<br> Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/arneelof" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/arneelof</a><br> Scholar: <a href="http://scholar.google.se/citations?user=s3OCM3AAAAAJ" target="_blank">http://scholar.google.se/citations?user=s3OCM3AAAAAJ</a><br> ORCID: 0000-0002-7115-9751</div></div></div></div></div></div>