Hub updates
A reminder that registration is now open for the ELIXIR All Hands meeting to be held in Barcelona on 7-10 March 2016. Registration is free and all members of the ELIXIR community from ELIXIR Nodes are invited to attend. Programme now available.
ELIXIR becomes the main organising sponsor of the 15th European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB), to take place on 3-7 September 2016 in The Hague, the Netherlands. The programme of the conference will feature a dedicated track to showcase ELIXIR activities. The talks in the ELIXIR track will be selected through an open call, launched today, together with the general ECCB 2016 call.
ELIXIR has opened a call for nominations for an industry representative to join the ELIXIR Industry Advisory Committee.
First ENVRIplus call for proposals for multi-disciplinary access to Environmental Research Infrastructures is now open!
Updates from Nodes
RItrain, Research Infrastructure Training Programme, has launched a survey to gather information on training needs in management and leadership of research) in preparation for two workshops addressing skills gaps for managers and technical operators of research infrastructures. The SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics has a new website and a new URL: www.sib.swiss Computerome - the Danish Danish National Supercomputer for Life Sciences - is also open to users outside Denmark. Arcadi Navarro, Spanish delegate in the ELIXIR Board and has been appointed Secretary of Universities and Research in the new Catalan government.
Platform updates
Last week two EXCELARATE training platform subtasks - 'Training the Trainer' and 'Ensuring impact and quality', officially kicked-off with a joint workshop. Webinar presented this week, by Mikael Linden (ELIXIR-Finland) and Michal Prochu00e1zka (ELIXIR-Czech Republic) on how AAI is being used for the ELIXIR intranet and access to ELIXIR services now available to view via the ELIXIR Website.
Registration also open for a joint ELIXIR and DARIAH "AAI Workshop for Service and Resource Providers to be held in Manchester on 15-16 March 2016. A reminder to please take a few minutes to complete the ELIXIR interoperability platform survey to assess needs for a registry of standards in the life, environmental, and biomedical sciences, before it closes at the end of January.
Job board
ELIXIR Belgium is looking for Project Coordinator to coordinate the development of the Belgian Node and the Belgian bioinformatics community.
The ELIXIR Hub is seeking an ELIXIR Events officer. The closing date for applications is 31 January 2016.
Upcoming events
4-7 February 2016 | Lyngby, Denmark
ELIXIR Tools and Data Services Registry - Resource Hackathon: DebianMed
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)