Hub updates
Over 90 representatives from across the ELIXIR infrastructure came together last week in Cambridge, UK, to kick-start ELIXIR-EXCELERATE. Slides are available on the ELIXIR Google drive, photos are online on the ELIXIR website.
The ELIXIR Scientific Advisory Board also held their annual meeting last week. The meeting summary can be found on Google drive. Photos are available on the ELIXIR website.
The ELIXIR intranet has been launched; it will quickly grow into the main internal communications channel for ELIXIR and ELIXIR-EXCELERATE. Find out more in the Guide to the intranet. Register and log in at www.elixir-europe.org/intranet.
Update from Nodes
An article about resources of the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics putting a special focus on curated databases has been published on-line in NAR. Software Carpentry workshop for Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) to be held this week by ELIXIR UK.
Manny Corpas, the ELIXIR UK Technical Coordinator, has been selected 2016 Fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute. Congratulations!
Update from Platforms
Tools registry hackathon with de.NBI in Freiburg, Germany 19th - 20th January 2016. Register your interest now.
Job board
The ELIXIR Hub is seeking an ELIXIR Events officer to join the secretariat. The closing date for applications is 31 January 2016.
ELIXIR Human Data Coordinator and ELIXIR Technical Project Officer (Service Management and Quality Assurance). The closing date for applications for both posts is 3 January 2016. More information can be found via the ELIXIR website.
Upcoming events
14-18 December 2015 | Bologna, Italy
Training course: Protein Networks and Systems Biology
13-14 January 2016 | Lausanne, Switzerland
ELIXIR Data and Software Carpentry Instructor Training workshop
25-28 January 2016| Basel, Switzerland
SIB Training course: "Protein Bioinformatics: Sequence-Structure-Function"
4-7 February 2016 | Lyngby, Denmark
ELIXIR Tools and Data Services Registry - Resource Hackathon: DebianMed
8-9 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