Hub updates
ELIXIR has joined with Pistoia Alliance to launch a new project to map out the landscape of life science organisations, projects and alliances, and how they collaborate and connect to each other.
A CASyM / SysMedIBD workshop is taking place on 26 November 2015 in Brussels, Belgium. Let us know if you are interested in attending.
Plans are underway for ELIXIR to launch an F1000Research channel in the next few weeks. The intention will be for this to act as the main location for articles, papers and reports. Contact us now if you have any suggestions of articles for inclusion.
Updates from Nodes
ELIXIR Finland (CSC-IT Center for Science) has published a use case story about Saimaa ringed seal genome analysis, presenting its computational and storage capacity.
Platform Updates
The ELIXIR TeSS team has launched a survey for training coordinators and content providers to provide information on training materials available within the ELIXIR Nodes. 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.
EXCELERATE Updates
All meetings and events organised within EXCELERATE are available in the Google calendar.
Guidelines for organising ELIXIR-funded workshop and guide to EC funding rules in a nutshell for project partners can now be found on google drive.
ELIXIR community mailing lists are available
for all interested parties to subscribe in order to stay up-to-date with the activities in each platforms and use cases.
Reports from WP kick off meetings which have already taken place can now be found below: ELIXIR-EXCELERATE WP5 Interoperability, 1 October 2015, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
The ELIXIR Interoperability platform will deliver services that underpin standards and good data stewardship: identifier management and resolution, vocabulary and ontology services, reporting guidelines and provenance.
The interoperability platform will deliver in four workstreams: (1) Services, (2) Use Cases (3) BYOD/Training Interface (4) External initiatives. Year one deliverables on meta data, identifiers, and standards catalogs will evaluate current offerings from HCLS, BioCADDIE, identifiers.org, BioSharing.org and others to assess their utility with respect to use cases. ELIXIR-EXCELERATE WP7 Crop and Forest plants held their kick-off meeting on 1-2 October 2015 in Hinxton, UK. Meeting summary to follow. ELIXIR-EXCELERATE WP1: Tools interoperability & registry Kick-off took place on 6 October 2015 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Meeting summary to follow. The ELIXIR-EXCELERATE Capacity building workshop on how to use EU Structural Funds was organised by CEITEC on 8-9 October 2015 in Brno, Czech republic.
ELIXIR-EXCELERATE WP10 Capacity Building Workshop - Building European Capacity in Genome Assembly and Annotation, takes place on 19-20 October in Uppsala, Sweden.
Registration is now open 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.
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
19 October 2015 | London, UK
Software Credit Workshop: What contribution software can and should make for academic reputational credit?
19-20 October 2015 | Birmingham, UK
ELIXIR-UK All Hands meeting 2015
19-22 October | Rome, Italy
ELIXIR Training course: Gene Expression profiling with HTS: RNA-Seq data analysis
21 October 2015 |
ELIXIR Webinar: Rare Disease - a test case for ELIXIR Interoperability backbone
21-22 October 2015 | Hinxton, UK
BioData World Congress 2015: Harnessing the power of big data in personalised medicine
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
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
8-12 November 2015 | Schwarzenberg, Switzerland
Systems Modeling workshop: autumn school for PhD students and postdocs
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
17-18 November 2015 | Hinxton, UK
BioMedBridges Final Symposium