Issue 01/2022 |
New start for de.NBI |
From January 2022 de.NBI is continued under the roof of the Forschungszentrum Jülich, member of the Helmholtz Association. Both, de.NBI and ELIXIR-DE administration offices including de.NBI Cloud Bielefeld and the Bielefeld part of the service center BIGI have changed affiliations and are operating from Bielefeld. Additionally, the ELIXIR communication officers located at the individual service centers have been employed by the FZJ. However, restructuring has not yet been completed and negotiations on the affiliation of the decentralized de.NBI partners are ongoing. In this context, the de.NBI Association (de.NBI e.V.), founded in August 2021, has been legally registered as a non-profit association and we hope that further funding can be acquired via this gateway. We will continue to update the interested public with our quarterly newsletters. |
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ELIXIR Germany will participate in 10 out of 29 new Commissioned Services projects launched 01 January 2022. These projects bring together expertise from across ELIXIR’s Nodes and aim to provide methods to advance ELIXIR services and Platform and Community activities to cover a diverse collection of life-science and bioinformatics disciplines. Please see further information about Commissioned Services with German contributions here. |
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The ELIXIR Board is the decision-making body in the intergovernmental organisation ELIXIR. The Board consist of scientific and administrative representatives from each ELIXIR Member State and EMBL. Board members are authorised to deliberate, negotiate and decide on behalf of the respective ELIXIR members. From January 2019 the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) appointed two scientific delegates from ELIXIR Germany to the ELIXIR Board: Prof. Rolf Backofen (University of Freiburg) and Prof. Alexander Goesmann (University Gießen). At this year’s November meeting of the Board Alexander Goesmann was elected as Vice-Chair to the ELIXIR Board for 2022 and 2023. Together with Prof. Ferran Sanz (Spain) and Isabel Rocha (Portugal) he completes the Chair of the ELIXIR Board for the next two years. |
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The de.NBI Cloud portal is ever evolving and our team is working hard on providing you with a better cloud system experience. From now on, we will regurarly update you on changes and new features of our project management system and in particular SimpleVM. Since this is our first feature update, we include some features and changes from the past two years which we think should be brought to your attention. In our update article we highlight As always: Feedback in any form is greatly appreciated and can be sent to us at |
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Some research areas in life sciences touch the topic of sensible data. To offer a reliable environment for the processing of such data in a verifiable way, the IT Center of the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen has pursued the certification of the de.NBI Cloud site in Tübingen according to the ISO 27001 standard. As such, well defined procedures have been documented easing the bureaucratic aspects related to sensible data processing. As the third de.NBI Cloud facility, the Albrecht Ludwigs Universtät Freiburg has implemented an information security management system for their de.NBI Cloud site and a achieved an ISO 27001 certifcation to document a secure cloud environment. Preparations of the certification processes took more than two years. |
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In 2021, Bayer AG and de.NBI / ELIXIR Germany organized two virtual public events entitled “Women in Data Science – Perspectives in Industry and Academia” promoting women doing outstanding work in data science across sectors. This lecture series was attended by about 150 participants at the first and 75 at the second event and was born out of the vision to showcase career models for women in data science. All in one, ten fantastic female professionals from academia and industry shared their experience on how to build your own career and showed opportunities for advancement. We are delighted that this series of lectures will be continued and look forward to the third event in spring 2022. Stay tuned! |
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Future oriented analysis of research data applying AI methods exemplified by efforts within the de.NBI consortium have recently been published in gesundhyte.de (p. 42-45). An overview on AI-oriented activities in de.NBI is summarized on the website. |
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Numerous improvements of de.NBI services have been reported in the last quarter: Mercator: LipidXplorer: BRENDA: BacDive: |
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The next de.NBI events or training events are announced at https://www.denbi.de/events or www.denbi.de/training. |
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