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2013 Annual General Meeting: Executive Board Report
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Ingår i: EMBnet.journal. - 2226-6089. ; 19.1, s. 24-25
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- During the past year, the Executive Board (EB) met regularly and held frequent meetings with the Operational Board via Skype. These meetings allowed discussion of a range of issues relating to the Project Committees (PCs), to EMBnet.journal, to the website, the Stichting accounts, membership, etc. In alternate months, we also endeavoured to convene Skype meetings open to the full EMBnet constituency; however, for larger numbers of attendees, technical issues continued to cause problems. Attempting to address these issues, we took the first steps towards evaluating the various tools and technologies available for online meetings, by creating a list of existing tools, and a protocol on how to test them. The test will be realised in the same spirit as the ‘ping project1' of the ‘80s. The 2013 AGM allowed us to convene a working group to discuss the issues in more detail, and to initiate a common experiment with different software and different Nodes. The ultimate goal is to write a white paper and to publish the results in EMBnet.journal. The last year has been both busy and productive, building substantially on the programme of work we outlined in 2010. In particular, working closely with Itico2 to improve the EMBnet ‘brand', we finally launched the new website, which now includes a new online fee-payment module for individual members. We call on all members to help augment the content of the new site and to help keep it up-to-date. Since the 2012 AGM in Uppsala, EMBnet's training strategy has been dominated by our leadership of GOBLET3 (the Global Organisation for Bioinformatics Learning, Education and Training), which has been established as a Stichting, registered in the Netherlands, following the successful model of EMBnet. Working through GOBLET has significantly increased our level of interaction and cooperation with a range of major international societies and networks (including ISCB4, ASBCB5,ISB6, APBioNet7, SoIBio8, ABN9 and so on) - from the original 10 members who signed the Memorandum of Understanding to establish GOBLET, a further 16 organisations and several individuals have committed to join the Foundation. Another profound advance for EMBnet this year has been the final ratification of the new statutes, which were voted in during the Uppsala 2012 AGM - these statutes became legally binding in April 2013. The most significant result of the change is that we are now able formally to accept individual members (this allows, say, former Node managers to join, or any individual to participate in EMBnet's activities but whose organisation is not a member). Since ratification of the statutes, we have already had several membership applications, and welcomed one new organisation; new memberships will be processed without delay via the online payment system. The new statutes also ushered in changes to the internal structure of the organisation, obliging the PC Chairs and the EB to work together much more closely than they have done in the past; it has also allowed us to streamline the way in which EMBnet's activities
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- Bongcam Rudloff, Erik
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2016 EMBnet Annual General Meeting – Executive Board Report
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Ingår i: EMBnet.journal. - : EMBnet Stichting. - 2226-6089. ; 22
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- During the past year, the Executive Board (EB) held regular monthly meetings either via Skype or using Adobe Connect. These meetings were carried out with the Interim Board (IB), comprising members of the EB and Teresa Attwood and Etienne de Villiers. The IB was established during the 2015 Annual General Meeting (AGM) both to support the new EB in its first steps forward (as three of its members were new), and to help oversee implementation and delivery of the investment strategy. The EB also regularly invited Special Interest Group (SIG) Chairs to participate at EB-IB meetings. Additional monthly meetings open to the full EMBnet constituency were also convened. In this report, we provide a brief overview of activities and achievements from June 2015 to October 2016.
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- Bongcam Rudloff, Erik
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Integration and analysis of multi-type high-throughput data for biomolecular knowledge discovery
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Ingår i: EMBnet.journal. - 2226-6089. ; 18.A, s. 13-
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- Erik Bongcam-Rudloff received his doctorate in medical sciences from Uppsala University, Sweden. He is now the Director of the SLU Global Bioinformatics Centre (SGBC) at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.Erik was the chairman of EMBnet (2003-2010), a science-based group of worldwide collaborating bioinformatics nodes. He also coordinated the "Test Cases" work package 4 in the FP6 EMBRACE project (2005-2010). The goal of WP4 was to collect test cases from the scientific community to identify real research problems and to provide solutions for content and tool integration.Bongcam-Rudloff is today Chair of SeqAhead, a Biomedical European COST Action: "Next Generation Sequencing Data Analysis Network" and Coordinator of ALLBIO, a FP7 project: "Broadening the Bioinformatics Infrastructure to unicellular, animal, and plant science". He is also the founder of eBioinformatics.org the creators of eBiotools, eBioKit, eBioX and eBioKit.His main research deals with development of bioinformatics solutions for the Life Sciences community.In this talk he will discuss the new techniques that are now driving the generation of knowledge (especially in biomedicine and molecular life sciences) to new dimensions eg. NGS. He will also discuss the new opportunities in human and non-human research that these techniques create but also the new challenges in the design of ontologies for data and methods, and choosing common interoperability standards.
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- Bongcam Rudloff, Erik
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Next NGS Challenge – Data Processing and Integration’ Conference – Conference report
- 2013
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Ingår i: EMBnet.journal. - 2226-6089. ; 19.1, s. 14-15
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Abstract. The ‘Next NGS Challenge - data processing and integration' Conference (held on 15-16 May 2013, in Valencia, Spain), a joint event of EU COST Action BM1006, SeqAhead, the Global Bioinformatics Network, EMBnet, the International Society for Computational Biology, ISCB, and the FP7 Project, STATegra was a true success in terms both of the high number of participants from a wide diversity of countries and backgrounds, and of the quality of the keynote and contributed talks.
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