Hub updates
France and Spain are now fully integrated into ELIXIR's scientific and operational activities, following the ELIXIR Board's approval of their application to use the Provisional Membership scheme. Ireland has also become an Observer to the ELIXIR Board.
A summary of outcomes from the ELIXIR Board meeting can be found on the ELIXIR website. Highlights include the approval of a process for selection and approval of ELIXIR Commissioned Services, and approval of the 2016 Budget and Work Plan.
G7 report highlights ELIXIR as example of global research infrastructure. In the report, ELIXIR is named as a Global Research Infrastructure due to the potential it has for collaboration with, and membership from, countries across the globe.
ELIXIR and BioSharing organised a joint session on sharing sensitive data at the 6th Plenary Meeting of the Research Data Alliance. More about the ELIXIR Bridging Force Interest Group within RDA is available on the RDA website.
Updates from Nodes
You can still register for the conference Empowering Personalized Medicine & Health Research, 4 November 2015, Amersfoort, Netherlands, organised by ELIXIR-NL (DTL), BBMRI-NL, and EATRIS-NL. ELIXIR Czech Republic prioritised for public funding by the Czech National Roadmap for Research Infrastructures 2016-2022
Platform updates
ELIXIR Tools and Data Services Registry Curation & Usability Hackathon 2 will take place on 4-6 November in Brno, Czech Republic and Technical Hackathon 2: EDAM development heuristics on 2-4 December in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Use Case updates
The recording from the webinar presented by Marco Roos (ELIXIR-NL) last week on the ELIXIR Pilot Action: Rare Disease test case for ELIXIR Interoperability backbone launched in 2015 is now available here.
Capacity Building updates
ELIXIR-EXCELERATE WP10 Capacity Building Workshop - Building European Capacity in Genome Assembly and Annotation, took place in Uppsala, Sweden last week. A summary report from the meeting will follow shortly.
Registration is closes shortly for the Capacity building workshop on 'ELIXIR Nodes - Structure and Governance, to take place in Brussels, Belgium on 3-4 November 2015. ELIXIR Nodes in the process of establishing their legal agreements should attend this event. If you are interest register today.
All presentation slides and photos from the first Capacity Building workshop in Brno, Czech Republic, are available on the CEITEC website.
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.
The Biomembranes and Bioenergetics Institute (IBBECNR, Italy) is seeking to appoint a research assistant in bioinformatics (1 year, with the possibility of further extensions)
Upcoming events
2-3 November 2015 | Brussels, Belgium
ELIXIR Belgium Data Carpentry Course: Data Management beyond Excel
2-3 November 2015 | Lausanne, Switzerland
Ligand-protein docking and computer-aided drug design
4 November 2015 | Amersfoort, Netherlands
Empowering Personalized Medicine & Health Research conference
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
Bioinformatics as a driver of innovation
17-18 November 2015 | Hinxton, UK
BioMedBridges Final Symposium
27 November | Stockholm, Sweden
Exploring the Human Protein Atlas: ELIXIR Practical Workshop
30 November-3 December 2015 | Geneva, Switzerland
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
10 December 2015 | Cambridge, UK
ELIXIR-EXCELERATE Kick off Meeting