Hub updates
ELIXIR hosted the BioMedBridges final symposium: Open bridges for life science data. Slides will be available soon, photos are already online.
CORBEL will extend the work started by BioMedBridges. The kick-off meeting took place right atfer the BioMedBridges symposium. More information on the new project website: www.corbel-project.eu
ELIXIR was also at the European Data Forum in Luxembourg with an exhibition booth and talk by Mark Forster, Chair of the ELIXIR Industry Advisory Committee.
Updates from Nodes
Orphanet, a reference portal for rare diseases and orphan drugs is now part of ELIXIR France (Institut Franu00e7ais de Bioinformatique, IFB).
Prof. Ron Appel, HoN ELIXIR-Switzerland and Dr Rolf Apweiler, Joint HoN EMBL-EBI were invited to the Vatican last week to participate in a workshop on "Big Data and Science" organized by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. This photo shows the two HoNs behind St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican City. A reminder that the ELIXIR-UK has launched a survey on UK Community Engagement to help develop future strategy. All researchers who make use of international data resources in the life sciences are invited to take part. EMBL-EBI invites life science researchers to complete an annual survey about how they use EMBL-EBI's biological databases, tools, and other resources. Please visit the link above and complete the survey if you have not done so already.
Platform updates
Summary report from the second ELIXIR Curation & Usability Hackathon, held on 4-6 November 2015 in Brno, Czech Republic, is now available.
Use case updates
The ERA-Net for Research Programmes on Rare Diseases 8th Call for Proposals will open on 7 December 2015, which may be of interest to ELIXIR partners involved in the Rare Diseases Use Case. The E-Rare call website also lists ELIXIR as an infrastructure that applicants should consider using.
Job board
The ELIXIR Hub is seeking an 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.
EMBL-EBI is seeking a Systems Administrator for ELIXIR Services to join their team. Closing date for applications is 29 November 2015. More information can be found via the ELIXIR website.
ELIXIR-Sweden is seeking a Developer for Data Management to join their team. Closing date for applications is 6 December 2015. More information can be found via the ELIXIR website.
Upcoming events
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 2015 | Amsterdam, Netherlands
ELIXIR Tools and Data Services Registry - Technical Hackathon 2: EDAM development heuristics
10 December 2015 | Cambridge, UK
ELIXIR-EXCELERATE Kick off Meeting
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
4-7 February 2016 | Lyngby, Denmark
ELIXIR Tools and Data Services Registry - Resource Hackathon: DebianMed
8-9 March 2016| Location TBC
ELIXIR all hands 2016
17-18 March 2016 | Leuven, Belgium
VIB 'Applied Bioinformatics in Life Sciences' Conference
6-8 April 2016 | Copenhagen, Denmark
ELIXIR Tools and Data Services Registry - Thematic Hackathon: Metagenomics