Hub updates
We are please to announce that Belgium is the 15th Member State to join ELIXIR, following the signature of the ECA and its approval by the ELIXIR Board.
Carole Goble (ELIXIR-UK) and Janet Thornton (EMBL-EBI) represented ELIXIR at the NIH BD2K All Hands 12-13 Nov 2015 at Bethesda, USA, and gave an impromptu plenary talk promoting ELIXIR's work.
ELIXIR is launching a Software Development Best Practices Working Group to put in place Open source policy for software development. The kick off meeting takes place in Amsterdam on 14-15 December 2015.
The European Data in Health Research Alliance is running an online petition on the impact of the European Parliament's proposed amendment to the EU Data Protection Regulation. Over 6,000 patients and researchers have so far signed; you can do so at www.datasaveslives.eu
Updates from Nodes
ELIXIR Switzerland (SIB) participated at Swiss Innovation Forum, on 19 November 2015 in Basel.
Platform updates
Details announced for a GOBLET/ELIXIR hackathon for metagenomics training materials re-use taking place in Copenhagen on 6-8 April 2016. Register your interest now. The ELIXIR-GOBLET collaboration continued at the GOBLET's 4th Annual General Meeting, held in Cape Town, 18-20 November.
ELIXIR-UK organised Software and Data Carpentry Instructor Training workshop in Manchester on 22-23 November 2015. It trained 24 new instructors from a number of ELIXIR nodes.
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.
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
25-28 January 2016| Basel, Switzerland
SIB Training course: "Protein Bioinformatics: Sequence-Structure-Function"
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
GOBLET/ELIXIR hackaton for metagenomics training materials re-use