Hub updates
New Blog post available on AARC, the EC funded project for Authentication and Authorization Infrastructures for Research and Collaboration submitted under Horizon 2020 in which partners from ELIXIR Finland are involved.
The German Bioinformatics network has launched a new website bioinformatik.de.
UK's Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) launches survey on Non-Faculty Researchers performing essential research and research support roles.
Updates from Nodes
The Tryggve project - a joint initiative of ELIXIR Nodes in Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Norway and NordForsk's Nordic eInfrastructure Collaboration - has published 5 reports on technical infrastructure for secure management of access controlled research data
EXCELERATE Updates
All meetings and events organised within EXCELERATE are available in the Google calendar. Short reports from the WP kick off events will be made available shortly. To stay up-to-date with the activities in each platforms and use cases, subscribe to the community mailing lists! ELIXIR-EXCELERATE WP5 Interoperability held their kick-off meeting on 1 October 2015 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. ELIXIR-EXCELERATE WP7 Crop and Forest plants held their kick-off meeting on 1-2 October 2015 in Hinxton, UK. ELIXIR-EXCELERATE WP1: Tools interoperability & registry Kick-off takes place on 6 October 2015 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
ELIXIR Tools and Data Services Registry Curation & Usability Hackathon 2 will take place Nov 4-6 in Brno, Czech Republic and Technical Hackathon 2: EDAM development heuristics on Dec 2-4, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, as part of EXCELERATE WP1. ELIXIR-EXCELERATE WP10 Capacity Building Workshop - Building European Capacity in Genome Assembly and Annotation, takes place on 19-20 October in Uppsala, Sweden.
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
8 October 2015 | Amsterdam, Netherlands
National eScience Symposium: DTL Life Science and eHealth track
8-9 October 2015 | London & 23-24 November 2015 | Manchester, UK
ELIXIR UK Data Carpentry Instructor (Train-the-trainer) Workshops: How to train life science researchers in computing
19 October 2015 | London, UK
Software Credit Workshop: What contribution software can and should make for academic reputational credit?
21 October 2015 |
ELIXIR Webinar: Rare Disease - a test case for ELIXIR Interoperability backbone
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
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
17-18 November 2015 | Hinxton, UK
BioMedBridges Final Symposium