Hub updates
We are pleased to announce that Italy has become the 16th Member State to join ELIXIR following the signature of the ECA and its approval by the ELIXIR Board.
Registration is now open for the ELIXIR All Hands meeting to be held in Barcelona on 7-10 March 2016. Registration is free and all members of the ELIXIR community from ELIXIR Nodes are invited to attend. We are currently seeking input from ELIXIR HoNs and ELIXIR committees on the themes of the satellite sessions.
A new ELIXIR Webinar schedule for early 2016 is now available on the ELIXIR website.
The next ELIXIR webinar on how AAI is being used for the ELIXIR intranet will take place 20 January (3pm CET). If you have not already done so, you can sign up for the ELIXIR intranet here.
A BioMedBridges video has been released highlighting the ELIXIR led ESFRI BMS project achievements and an article on CORBEL/BioMedBridges featured in the December 2015/January 2016 issue of the Research*eu magazine.
The ELIXIR IAC will meet at Hinxton this week for their annual meeting in order to work on developing the ELIXIR industry strategy. ELIXIR partners will also be asked for input in the coming weeks.
ELIXIR will be a major sponsor at ECCB in the Hague in 2016. This will give ELIXIR 4 Tech Track sessions, where we propose to open Calls for ELIXIR submissions. The call will open 25 January, full details will follow in the Call notification.
Updates from Nodes
Europe PubMed Central ORCID tool now recognised by another set of journals. The tool allows you to link your Europe PMC articles to your ORCID, a unique identifier that distinguishes you from other researchers. Sign up and update your ORCID here.
Platform updates
The ELIXIR Interoperability platform has launched a survey to assess needs for a registry of standards in the life, environmental, and biomedical sciences. Please take a few moments to complete the survey before it closes at the end of January.
Job board
The ELIXIR Hub is seeking an ELIXIR Events officer. The closing date for applications is 31 January 2016.
Upcoming events
13-14 January 2016 | Lausanne, Switzerland
ELIXIR Data and Software Carpentry Instructor Training workshop
19-20 January 2016 | Freiburg, Germany
Tools Registry Hackathon with de.NBI
25-28 January 2016| Basel, Switzerland
SIB Training course: "Protein Bioinformatics: Sequence-Structure-Function"
1-3 February 2016 | Leicester, UK
DNA-Seq Next Generation Sequencing workshop
4-7 February 2016 | Lyngby, Denmark
ELIXIR Tools and Data Services Registry - Resource Hackathon: DebianMed
7-10 March 2016 | Barcelona, Spain
ELIXIR All Hands 2016
17-18 March 2016 | Leuven, Belgium
VIB 'Applied Bioinformatics in Life Sciences' Conference
6-8 April 2016 | Copenhagen, Denmark
GOBLET/ELIXIR hackaton for metagenomics training materials re-use
19-20 April 2016 | Lunteren, The Netherlands
Dutch Bioinformatics & Systems Biology conference (BioSB 2016)