Hub updates
ELIXIR Implementation Studies replace Pilot Actions as short-term technical activities funded by the Hub. This Memo explains how it will work in practice.
Last chance to register for the BioMedBridges Symposium Open bridges for life science data, 17-18 November 2015, Hinxton, UK. The registration closes tomorrow, 3 November.
ELIXIR Human Data Coordinator Ilkka Lappalainen takes up a new position at ELIXIR Finland. We wish Ilkka all the very best! ELIXIR has started a new collaboration with Pistoia Alliance to map out the links and interconnections among life science organisations, projects and alliances.
The European Commission is organising an Information and Networking day to present the e-Infrastructure part of the H2020 Research Infrastructures Work Programme 2016-2017. 30 November 2015, Brussels, Belgium. Registration is open.
Updates from Nodes
The Tryggve project, Nordic platform for collaboration on sensitive data, funded by ELIXIR Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden and NeIC, published an article on the recent developments in the EU legal environment concerning data privacy. Read more in the project's October Newsletter. ELIXIR Spain (National Institute of Bioinformatics), Intel and Atos, are organising a conference Bioinformatics as a Driver of Innovation on 12 November in Madrid, to explore new ways of collaboration between industry, healthcare and research.
Platform updates
Further details are now available for the Technical Hackathon 2: EDAM development heuristics taking place on 2-4 December in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Register your interest here. The ELIXIR Interoperability platform invites representatives from ELIXIR Nodes to complete a survey by the Gene Ontology (GO) project. The results will help GO to provide a better service to its users.
Capacity Building updates
A summary report from the ELIXIR-EXCELERATE WP10 Capacity Building Workshop - Building European Capacity in Genome Assembly and Annotation, held in Uppsala, Sweden, on 19-20 October 2015, is available on EXCELERATE Google drive.
Job board
The University of Tartu is seeking a developer to join the ELIXIR Estonia team more information can be found via the ELIXIR website.
Upcoming events
4 November 2015 | Amersfoort, Netherlands
Empowering Personalized Medicine & Health Research conference
4-6 November | Brno, Czech Republic.
ELIXIR Tools and Data Services Registry Curation & Usability Hackathon 2
9-13 November 2015 | Nijmegen, Netherlands
BioSB course - Protein Structures: production, prowess, power, promises, and problems (3rd edition)
11 November 2015 | Bari, Italy
NGS Analysis Training Workshop: cross-domain data exploration
12 November 2015 | Madrid, Spain
ELIXIR Spain Industry Programme: Bioinformatics as a driver of innovation
17-18 November 2015 | Hinxton, UK
Open bridges for life science data: BioMedBridges Final Symposium
27 November | Stockholm, Sweden
Exploring the Human Protein Atlas: ELIXIR Practical Workshop
30 November-3 December 2015 | Geneva, Switzerland
Training course on Using the Semantic Web for faster (Bio-)Research
30 November-4 December 2015 | Utrecht, Netherlands
BioSB Course on Managing and Integrating Life Science Information: Approaches using Linked Data and Semantics
2-4 December | Amsterdam, Netherlands
EXCELERATE Tool platform - Technical Hackathon 2: EDAM development heuristics
10 December 2015 | Cambridge, UK
ELIXIR-EXCELERATE Kick off Meeting