FRIDA, LACNIC's Fund for the Strengthening of the Internet in Latin America and the Caribbean, announces its 2020 call to finance innovative projects that promote the stability, security and openness of the network in the region.
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Good news for those who have not been able to participate in the Virtual Day "COVID-19: The challenge for the work of the academic community", last March 26-27: the recordings of the two days of the webinar, in which the academic community had the opportunity to discuss the problem of the Coronavirus from a clinical perspective and from the challenge it poses for scientific and academic work, are already available online.
- María José López Pourailly
United against Coronavirus: Discover the services that the Academic Networks members of RedCLARA have made available to their communities
The National Research and Education Networks of Brazil (RNP), Colombia (RENATA), Chile (REUNA), Ecuador (CEDIA) and Mexico (CUDI), have made available to their member institutions a series of free tools to enhance the development of activities of their science, research and higher education communities in the fight against COVID-19.
In order to strengthen the exchange of research data during the COVID-19 pandemic period, the Research Data Alliance - RDA announced the creation of a working group together with CODATA, GO-FAIR and WDS (large international data organizations).
- María José López Pourailly
United against Coronavirus: NVIDIA Enterprise offers free access to DNA analysis software
Seeking to collaborate in the worldwide fight against Coronavirus, NVIDIA, a company specialized in artificial intelligence computing, is providing free access to its NVIDIA Parabricks program, a software suite to perform secondary analysis of DNA data from next generation sequences.
Parabrick's free use licenses are valid for 90 days and are directed to the scientific community and researchers.
Based on the well-known Genome Analysis Toolkit, Parabricks uses GPUs to speed up the analysis of sequence data by up to 50 times. One of the main benefits of Parabricks is that it is designed to deliver results at high speeds and at a low cost.
For researchers working with Oxford Nanopore's long-read data, a repository of GPU-accelerated tools is available on GitHub. In addition, the following applications already have NVIDIA GPU acceleration integrated: Medaka, Racon, Raven, Reticulatus, Unicycler.
Interested parties must complete the license on this form and have access to NVIDIA GPUs.
For more information, please visit: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2020/03/19/coronavirus-research-parabricks/
Remember that the National Research and Education Networks (NREN) of Latin America are coordinating, together with RedCLARA, various actions to support our partner institutions in the fight against the Coronavirus (COVID-19).
For more information about the free services to face the situation that afflicts us with the pandemic, which is offered to the scientific-academic community of your country, contact your national network:
- Brazil - RNP, write to: atendimento@rnp.br
- Colombia - RENATA, write to: communications@renata.edu.co
- Costa Rica - RedCONARE, write to: info@redconare.ac.cr
- Chile - REUNA, write to: cmunoz@reuna.cl
- Ecuador - CEDIA, write to: info@cedia.org.ec
- El Salvador - RAICES, write to: ppsanchezc@gmail.com
- Guatemala - RAGIE, write to: marcoto@galileo.edu
- Mexico - CUDI, write to: cudi@cudi.edu.mx
- Honduras - RUNBA, write to: phernandez@unah.edu.hn
- Uruguay - RAU, write to: luis.castillo@seciu.edu.uy
If there is no national network identified here, write to RedCLARA_comunica@redclara.net.
The national Academic Networks that are part of RedCLARA are non-for-profit organizations and do not represent any type of trademark.
- María José López Pourailly
ANNOUNCEMENT: TICAL2020 and 4th Latin American e-Science Meeting will be held virtually
Dear Latin American Research and Education Community, given the uncertain scenario imposed on us by the Coronavirus pandemic, and with the objective of protecting our entire community, considering that the pandemic could be extended until the third trimester of this year, RedCLARA, its members and the Organizing and Programme Committees of TICAL2020 made the decision to hold the tenth edition of the conference in virtual format (keeping the date: August 31 to September 2).
Rambla República de México 6125.
Montevideo 11400. Uruguay.
Montevideo 11400. Uruguay.