Research Infrastructures (such as ESFRI’s) are characterized by the very significant data volumes they generate and handle but the research data landscape is still fragmented. The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) wants to address the current situation including the support of…

ELIXIR Belgium is hosting the ELIXIR Tools Platform F2F meeting in Ghent. The meeting covers the general Tools Platform member’s discussion for the new ELIXIR Scientific Program, the collaboration with the MyExperiment team around workflows and EOSC-life, and the strategic…

Apart from our academic partners, Belgian research institutes active in life-sciences are also important stakeholders in ELIXIR Belgium. Members of these organisations generate and use data, thereby facing similar data challenges. With the ELIXIR Belgium…

Microbiome, Food and Nutrition datasets have expanded rapidly in recent years, following advances in DNA sequencing and the rise of shotgun metagenomics and metabolomics. To help companies access and take advantage of this wealth of data, ELIXIR and ELIXIR Belgium organised a two-day ELIXIR…

In September 2017, Flanders and Walloon Metabolomics groups organized the first Belgian Metabolomics Day. The purpose of this meeting was to get to know each others research interests and to increase interaction between the different research groups. As such, the presentations…

The goal of this kick-off event (9 February 2017) is to inform researchers, policy makers and funders about the ELIXIR research infrastructure and how it can assist them in their research. Moreover, this launch event offers great networking opportunities.

This meeting (28 September 2016) will bring together several members of universities and research centres to kick-off the activities of the “Training” platform of the Belgian ELIXIR node. The objectives of this meeting are to: