Hub updates
A reminder that 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.
The ELIXIR Industry Advisory Committee held their annual meeting last week. A summary of the meeting can be found on the ELIXIR Website.
ELIXIR is partnering up with Germany's TMF (Technology, Methods and Infrastructure for Networked Medical Research) to develop its Ethics policy for the protection, access and management of sensitive data.
The ELIXIR Software development best practices for Life Sciences Working Group held their first meeting in Amsterdam last month. The aim of the group is to define procedures to improve quality and sustainability of software development that could be adopted by ELIXIR and other biomedical Research Infrastructures.
ELIXIR will be at the London Festival of Genomics, next week on 20-21 January. Niklas Blomberg will have a talk, you can also visit us at our booth in the exhibition area (n. 30).
Updates from Nodes
Prof. Chris Ponting steps down from his role as Head of the ELIXIR UK Node.
Platform updates
Registration is now open for a joint ELIXIR and DARIAH "AAI Workshop for Service and Resource Providers to be held in Manchester on 15-16 March 2016. A webinar on how AAI is being used for the ELIXIR intranet will also be held this Wednesday 20 January (3pm CET). A reminder to please take a few minutes to complete the ELIXIR interoperability platform survey to assess needs for a registry of standards in the life, environmental, and biomedical sciences, before it closes at the end of January. EMBL-EBI is organising a series of one-day workshops to introduce bioinformatics resources for protein biology offered by EMB-EBI. The workshops take place on 9, 10 and 11 February 2016 in Hinxton, UK.
Job board
The ELIXIR Hub is seeking an ELIXIR Events officer. The closing date for applications is 31 January 2016.
Upcoming events
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)