Hub updates
The ELIXIR Industry Advisory Committee held their Autumn teleconference, providing the opportunity for the committee to review ongoing activities and future plans for engagement with Industry.
Mark Forster, Chair of ELIXIR IAC, will give a talk on open data at European Data Forum 2015. ELIXIR is a gold sponsor and will also have booth at the conference. Preliminary programme available now.
The BioMedBridges symposium Open bridges for life science data is taking place on 17-18 November 2015 in Hinxton. Register via the BioMedBridges website.
Interested in accessing EU Structural Funds? Take part in ELIXIR-EXCELERATE Capacity Building Workshop: Using EU Structural Funds for research infrastructure, 8-9 October 2015 Brno, Czech republic. Last chance to register!
Updates from Nodes
ELIXIR UK is organising its annual All Hands meeting on 19-20 October at the University of Birmingham.
Platform Updates
'ELIXIR Bridging Force' Interest Group and BioSharing Registry Working Group held a joint session 'Life Sciences and Sensitive Data' on 25 September, as part of the Research Data Alliance 6th Plenary Meeting. The ELIXIR Tools and Data Services Registry have been presented in two research papers.
The ELIXIR Tools and Data Services Registry have been presented in two research papers.
EXCELERATE Updates
All meetings and events organised within EXCELERATE are available in the Google calendar. To stay up-to-date with the activities in each platforms and use cases, subscribe to the community mailing lists! ELIXIR-EXCELERATE WP5 Interoperability kick-off meeting will take place on 1 October 2015 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. ELIXIR-EXCELERATE WP7 Crop and Forest plants kick-off meeting takes place on 1-2 October 2015 in Hinxton, UK. ELIXIR-EXCELERATE WP1: Tools interoperability & registry Kick-off takes place on 6 October 2015 in Copenhagen, Denmark. ELIXIR-EXCELERATE WP10 Capacity Building Workshop - Building European Capacity in Genome Assembly and Annotation, takes place on 19-20 October in Uppsala, Sweden.
Job board
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
8 October 2015 | Amsterdam, Netherlands
National eScience Symposium: DTL Life Science and eHealth track
8-9 October 2015 | London & 23-24 November 2015 | Manchester, UK
ELIXIR UK Data Carpentry Instructor (Train-the-trainer) Workshops: How to train life science researchers in computing
19 October 2015 | London, UK
Software Credit Workshop: What contribution software can and should make for academic reputational credit?
21 October 2015 |
ELIXIR Webinar: Rare Disease - a test case for ELIXIR Interoperability backbone
26-27 October 2015 | Brussels, Belgium
Science Europe Workshop ''Importance of Text and Data (Content) Mining for Science'
2-3 November 2015 | Brussels, Belgium
ELIXIR Belgium Data Carpentry Course: Data Management beyond Excel
4 November 2015 | Amersfoort, Netherlands
Empowering Personalized Medicine & Health Research conference
8-12 November 2015 | Schwarzenberg, Switzerland
Systems Modeling workshop: autumn school for PhD students and postdocs