Hub updates
ELIXIR and de.NBI, the German Network for Bioinformatics Infrastructure, have agreed a strategy to guide collaboration and lead towards full Membership in ELIXIR by Germany.
Representatives from ELIXIR met with representatives from the EC and beyond for a ELIXIR Open Data in Action conference held in Brussels last week. Slides from the event will be made available shortly.
Last chance to register for the ELIXIR All Hands meeting to be held in Barcelona on 7-10 March 2016. Registration closes 14 February 2016. Registration is free and all members of the ELIXIR community from ELIXIR Nodes are invited to attend. Programme.
ELIXIR Chief Technical Officer, Rafael Jimenez will present a webinar to highlight technical areas of common interest between ELIXIR and the BioCADDIE project, the US led initiative, creating a 'biomedical and healthCAre Data Discovery Index Ecosystem', Thursday 11 February 2016 19:00 CET. Join the webinar here.
ELIXIR and IMI's OncoTrack have started a collaboration to examine solutions for long-term management of translational data
Updates from Nodes
ELIXIR Netherlands - the Co-organiser of this year's ECCB (The Hague, 3-7 September 2016) invites all ELIXIR Nodes to present their activities in the conference exhibition area. More information about the Exhibition and Sponsoring Opportunities at ECCB2016.
ELIXIR as the conference main partner will have a dedicated Application track to showcase ELIXIR activities and services from across the Nodes. The Call for the ELIXIR track is open until 29 March 2016. ELIXIR UK has launched a call for Node service expansion, seeking expression of interest from 'infrastructure-ready' data resources based in the UK to participate in ELIXIR-UK and become ELIXIR Named Services.
An explanatory webinar for interested parties will be held tomorrow (9 Feb) 14:00 UK time, followed by a more detailed workshop to take place in London on 1 March. Register your interest here.
Platform updates
Update from de.NBI - EDAM Codefest: ELIXIR Tools and Services Registry Resource hackathon, January 2016.
Job board
Applications are invited for a research assistant position at the Biology Centre ASCR (Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic), part of ELIXIR CZ.
ELIXIR Belgium is looking for Project Coordinator to coordinate the development of the Belgian Node and the Belgian bioinformatics community.
Upcoming events
9-11 February 2016| Hinxton, UK
EMBL- EBI Workshops on Bioinformatics resources for protein biology
7-10 March 2016 | Barcelona, Spain
ELIXIR All Hands 2016
15-16 March 2016| Manchester UK
Joint ELIXIR and DARIAH "AAI Workshop for Service and Resource Providers"
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
19-20 April 2016 | Lunteren, The Netherlands
Dutch Bioinformatics & Systems Biology conference (BioSB 2016)