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ELIXIR's scientific and technical Programme for 2014-2018 has now been published. The programme sets out the focus of activities that ELIXIR partners will carry out over the current five-year period. This programme has been developed by over 100 scientists from

Finland has signed the Consortium Agreement establishing ELIXIR. Finland is the eleventh country to sign the agreement, after the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Israel, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, and the UK. The

The UK Node is currently advertising for a Scientific Programmer to join their team at The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC) in Norwich, in order to work on the design and implementation of the infrastructure that will track impact metrics for

On 24- 25 June, the first of a series of Bring Your Own Data (BYOD) parties took place in Leiden, the Netherlands, in the context of an ELIXIR Pilot Action for a broader data FAIRport . In this first workshop

Portugal has just become the tenth country to ratify the ELIXIR Consortium Agreement (ECA), joining the UK, Sweden, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Norway, the Netherlands, Israel and EMBL as full members. The ECA provides the legal basis for ELIXIR

ELIXIR invites industry representatives to put themselves forward for ELIXIR's Industry Advisory Committee (IAC). This high-level body will provide strategic advice to ELIXIR on its emerging services and industry support activities. The summary CV document below should be completed and

On June 11th, Euro-BioImaging and ELIXIR published a joint collaboration strategy on image data to support access to biological image data and link it to biomolecular data. This collaboration is an important example of two European research infrastructures joining up

ELIXIR has recently endorsed the eduGAIN Data Protection Code of Conduct. The Code of Conduct has also been endorsed by the CLARIN and DARIAH ESFRI Research Infrastructures, and the DASISH cluster project. Further information is available here.

ELIXIR has endorsed the data citation principles of Force11. Force11 is a community of scholars, librarians, archivists, publishers and research funders that has arisen organically to help facilitate the change toward improved knowledge creation and sharing. A full list of

The Competitiveness Council yesterday approved a decision to include ELIXIR as one of three prioritised Research Infrastructures, along with the European Spallation Source (ESS) and the Earth Plate Observing System (EPOS). The process of prioritising these Research Infrastructures was led

ELIXIR is featured in an article in the latest edition of GEANT's CONNECT magazine, which is available here. In the article, Dr Tommi Nyronen, the Head of Node for ELIXIR Finland, explains more about the concept of single sign on

ELIXIR UK is currently looking for a Software Engineer. The post is based at the University of Oxford's, e-Research Centre and has a closing date of 28 May. Further information is available here.

Israel has today become the ninth country to ratify the ELIXIR Consortium Agreement (ECA), joining the UK, Sweden, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Norway, the Netherlands, Denmark and EMBL. The ECA provides the legal basis for ELIXIR and ratification means

The ELIXIR Nodes in Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Norway have joined up with NordForsk's Nordic eInfrastructure Collaboration to work on the ‘ Tryggve’ project, a collaborative effort to manage and process sensitive biomedical data. An interview with Antti Pursula, the

A number of great steps forward were taken at the first ELIXIR Board meeting in Helsinki on 7-8 April 2014. The draft ELIXIR programme for 2014-2018 was discussed in great detail by Members and is due to be adopted in

Denmark has today become the eighth country to ratify the ELIXIR Consortium Agreement (ECA), joining the UK, Sweden, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Norway, the Netherlands and EMBL. The ECA provides the legal basis for ELIXIR and ratification means that

The 14th SocBiN (Society for Bioinformatics in Northern Europe) annual conference in bioinformatics will take place June 11-13 in Oslo, Norway, co-organized by the Norwegian Bioinformatics Platform and ELIXIR Norway. Further information can be found here.

Nature Genetics has issued a call for Data Analysis papers, which references ELIXIR and the Global Alliance. Further information is available here.

A vacancy is currently open for the key post of ELIXIR Event Officer. The closing date for applications is 9 March 2014. A full job description is available here.

A vacancy is currently open for the post of ELIXIR Project Manager. The closing date for applications is 9 March 2014. The full job desciption is available here.