Hub updates
Slovenia is the latest country to join ELIXIR, after the ratification of the ELIXIR Consortium Agreement by the Slovenian parliament and its approval by the ELIXIR Board.
Reminder that you can still register for the following ELIXIR All Hands satellite meetings (Using this spreadsheet):
- ELIXIR Beacon Workshop
- Satellite meeting for training and data searching
The webinar Update on Euro-BioImaging Image Data Repository (IDR) project and its interface with ELIXIR, presented last week by Prof. Jason Swedlow, is now available to view via the ELIXIR Website.
Updates from Nodes
ELIXIR UK organises a ELIXIR UK Node expansion workshop on 1 March 2016 in London. The workshop will clarify the process for preparing Expressions of Interest for ELIXIR-UK's Node Expansion during 2016.
Platform updates
Rafael Jimenez, ELIXIR CTO, presented ELIXIR at the BioCADDIE webinar on 11 February 2016. The slides and videos are available on the BioCADDIE website.
Job board
SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics is seeking a project manager to join their team.
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
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
21-22 March 2016| Manchester, UK
Samples Club (an ELIXIR EXCELERATE BYOD Event)
24-25 March 2016| Gif sur Yvettes, France
ELIXIR Curation & Usability Hackathon: Registration of Tools & Data Services
4-8 April 2016, Lausanne, Switzerland
Chip-seq data analysis: from quality check to motif discovery and more - An introduction to the tools and databases of the EPD team
7-8 April 2016 | Hinxton, UK
GOBLET/ELIXIR hackaton for metagenomics training materials re-use
12-14 April 2016, Lausanne, Switzerland
Introduction to Markov models
19-20 April 2016 | Lunteren, The Netherlands
Dutch Bioinformatics & Systems Biology conference (BioSB 2016)