European Life Sciences Infrastructure for Biological Information

www.elixir-europe.org

ELIXIRSafeguarding the results of life science research in Europe

Allegra ViaInstitute of Molecular Biology and Pathology (IBPM)

National Research Council of Italy (CNR)Elixir Italy Training Platform

A distributed infrastructure for life-science data

• ELIXIR is an intergovernmental organisation that brings together life science resources from across Europe

• databases

• software tools

• training materials

• cloud storage

• supercomputers

An ELIXIR Node is a network of research institutes within a member country

ELIXIR Governance

ELIXIR's NODES

TeCG TrCG

Heads of

Nodes (HoN)

Director (Niklas Blomberg)

ELIXIR's activities are divided into five areas called ‘Platforms’

Rare Diseases CommunityWhat the Community does

• Maintains a registry of data resources and analysis tools critical for rare disease research

• Provides a technical framework for the comparison and standardisation of services used by the rare disease communities

• Builds a portal through which authorised researchers can access rare disease data from repositories and catalogues around Europe

• Organises training courses, workshops and hackathons

ELIXIR IIB: the Italian node of ELIXIR

Training coordinator

(TeC )

Local Technical Coordinators (LTeCs)

Technical coordinator

(TeC )

Head of

Node

(HoN))

Head of Node: Graziano Pesole (IBIOM-CNR Bari, Università di Bari)Technical Coordinator: Federico Zambelli (Università di Milano)Training Coordinator: Allegra Via (IBPM-CNR, Sapienza Università)

Institution (reprsentative) LTeC

1 CNR-IBBE (Graziano Pesole - Head of Node)CNR – ISA (Angelo Facchiano) Angelo FacchianoCNR – ITB (Luciano Milanesi) Luciano Milanesi

2 CINECA (Sanzio Bassini) TizianaCastrignanò3 CRS4 (Gianluigi Zanetti) Gianmauro Cuccuru4 GARR (Federico Ruggieri) Fulvio Galeazzi5 INFN (Giorgio Maggi) Giacinto Donvito6 Fondazione Edmund Mach (Alessandro Cestaro) Alessandro Cestaro7 SapienzaUniversità (Stefano Pascarella) David Sasah Staid8 Università di Bari (Marcella Attimonelli) Ernesto Picardi9 Università di Bologna (Rita Casadio) Giuseppe Profiti10 Università di Firenze (Duccio Cavalieri) Marco Fondi11 Università di Milano (Giulio Pavesi) Federico Zambelli12 Università di Milano-Bicocca (Giancarlo Mauri) Gianluca Della Vedova13 Università di Padova (Giorgio Valle) Silvio Tosatto14 Università di Parma (Riccardo Percudani) Davide Carnevali15 Università di Salerno (Roberto Tagliaferri) Anna Marabotti16 Università di "Tor Vergata" (Gianni Cesareni) Luana Licata17 Università dellaTuscia (Alessio Valentini) TBA

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ELIXIR Italy's activities are divided into five areas called ‘Platforms’

The ELIXIR Italy Training Platform: supporting researchers and professionals in acquiring

specialized computational and data management skills

Events 2018https://elixir-iib-training.github.io/website/all_events_2018/

https://elixir-iib-training.github.io/website

Thank you!

Vincenza ColonnaIGB-CNR

Allegra ViaIBPM-CNR

Francesca De LeoIBBE-CNR

Anna MarabottiUniversity of Salerno

Luana Licata Ivan Micetic

University of Rome "Tor Vergata"

Loredana Le PeraIBIOM-CNR

University of Padua