[SocBiN] Launch Meeting for a proposed ELIXIR Community in Structural Bioinformatics

Arne Elofsson arne at bioinfo.se
Fri Aug 17 22:08:20 CEST 2018


*Launch Meeting for a proposed ELIXIR Community in Structural
Bioinformatics *

*Basel, Friday October 19th 2018*



This meeting will discuss a proposed new ELIXIR Community in Structural
Bioinformatics – *3DBioInfo**.* 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  https://www.elixir-europe.org/use-cases). ELIXIR
supports its formally recognised Communities by providing funding for
workshops and short collaborative projects associated with the Community.

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.

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.

This meeting will be held on Friday 19th October, the day after the
SWISS-MODEL 25th Anniversary Symposium, being held at the same venue. *It
is not necessary to register for the SWISS-MODEL meeting to attend the
3D-BioInfo meeting. *

*The meeting will start at 10.00 am and end at 5.30pm.*

*There will be a cost of 50 CHF to register for the meeting.*

The meeting will be capped at 100 participants so please register soon to
avoid disappointment.

*Registration site:  https://swissmodel.expasy.org/25years/elixir
<https://swissmodel.expasy.org/25years/elixir>*

*Call for abstracts and posters*: 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 c.orengo at ucl.ac.uk 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.

*Deadline for the abstracts: September 30th*

Ideas presented at the meeting will be considered for inclusion in the
application to become an ELIXIR Community.

*Further information*

For information on the timelines for forming an ELIXIR Community in
Structural Bioinformatics please see:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/10a5PTWA8b00i7jYeuyOQQ0OXdn-EUoUI/view?usp=sharing

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.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/10DYf1uMg9jaHFOGX7gvKsHIAVRRwqyx1/view?usp=sharing

Yours

Arne

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  Arne Elofsson                  Science for Life Laboratory
  Tel:+46-(0)70 695 1045   Stockholm University
  http://bioinfo.se/               Box 1031,
  Email: arne at bioinfo.se   17121 Solna, Sweden
  Twitter:   https://twitter.com/arneelof
  Scholar: http://scholar.google.se/citations?user=s3OCM3AAAAAJ
  ORCID: 0000-0002-7115-9751
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