Updates from Platforms
Read the news about the latest developments and plans for the future in the Bioschemas community.
Sarala Wimalaratne from EMBL-EBI presented an ELIXIR Webinar: Referencing of Data Using Identifiers. The presentation and video recording can now be found on the ELIXIR website.
Applications are being taken by the Data Platform for the second round of Core Data Resource selection - the deadline for submission is 17th January. A webinar will be held on Wednesday 6 December 2017; members of the Data Platform will present information on the selection process and answer any questions.
The Data Platform Implementation Study proposals are now with their External Reviewers, for assessment.
The Data Platform have published an artice: Funding knowledgebases: Towards a sustainable funding model for the UniProt use case. The Tools Platform have published an article describing ToolDog which facilitates the integration of tools that have been registered in the ELIXIR tools registry, into workbench environments, by generating tool description templates.
Updates from Use Cases
The UK Microbiology Society report recognises ELIXIR's contribution in developing resources for handling data from sequencing microbiome samples. It also commends ELIXIR scientists for proposing ways to address the lack of standards in metagenomics research.
The Marine Metagenomics Use Case has published an article META-pipe cloud setup and execution.
Updates from Nodes
The Dutch Centre for Life Sciences (DTL) have published their monthly Newsletter describing Single cell studies, a Data Management Wizard, Galaxy, and more.
ELIXIR-NL is running Managing and Integrating Life Science Information (5th edition): Approaches using Linked Data and Semantics on 22-26 January 2018 in Amsterdam, Netherlands ELIXIR-CZ and Palacky University Olomouc are running Advanced in silico Drug Design workshop/hackathon on 23-26 January 2018 in Olomouc, Czech Republic. ELIXIR-BE welcomes Paula Andrea Martinez as instructor, maintainer, mentor and trainer in Software Carpentry and Data Carpentry. The Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB) is running a NGS - Quality control, Alignment, Visualisation course on 9 - 10 January 2018 in Bern, Switzerland.
SIB are running a Statistics for Life Sciences with R course on 15-18 January 2018 in Lausanne, Switzerland. Read the news from Tryggve, the Nordic collaboration to support sharing of sensitive human data in the latest Newsletter.
Job board
ELIXIR Norway is seeking a Bioinformatician for a 4 year position at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. The focus will be on structural- and functional genomics and bioinformatics in fish.
ELIXIR Norway also seeks a Senior Engineer/Chief Engineer to develop and maintain software and systems for the analysis and sharing of sensitive biomedical data. The role will support the 4 Nordic ELIXIR nodes and Tryggve2
And finally, ELIXIR Norway are advertising a newly established and permanent Administrative Coordinator position at the Department of Informatics within the Computational Biology Unit (CBU), University of Bergen.
ELIXIR UK seeks a Training Impact Co-ordinator based at The Bioinformatics Training Facility, University of Cambridge. The post-holder will develop a comprehensive system of bioinformatics training metrics/key performance indicators across ELIXIR and EXCELERATE.
There are two internship positions open at the ELIXIR Hub: the Bioschemas internship and the ELIXIR Beacons internship.
Upcoming events
The ELIXIR TeSS portal has a variety of interesting events and courses organised by the ELIXIR Nodes.
ELIXIR events
6 December 2017 | Online
ELIXIR Webinar: Process for the selection of ELIXIR Core Data Resources
20 December 2017 | Online
ELIXIR Webinar: Improvements to Ensembl
1-2 February 2017 | Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, UK
ELIXIR Scientific Advisory Board meeting
24-25 April 2018 | Tel Aviv
ELIXIR Board meeting
4-7 June 2018 | Berlin, Germany
ELIXIR All Hands meeting
12-13 November 2018 | Ljubljana, Slovenia
ELIXIR Board meeting 2017 ELIXIR - Hub
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