Hub updates
We would like to welcome Jrg Peplies as the newest member to the ELIXIR Industry Advisory Committee. Jrg is co-owner and CEO of the SME Ribocon, founded in 2005 as spin-off of the Microbial Genomics and Bioinformatics Group at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, Germany. He replaces Sara Paulina de Oliveira Monteiro, P-BIO Portugals Biotechnology Industry Organisation, who we would like to thank for serving on the ELIXIR IAC.
Pistoia Alliance is organising 2019 User Experience for Life Sciences Conference on 8-9 May 2019 in Stevenage, UK.
Updates from Platforms
The BioHackathon2019 call for hacking projects will close on 7 April. Submission of proposals will be coordinated through Easychair bh2019; if you have any questions contact Jen Harrow (jen.harrow@elixir-europe.org).
BioContainers presents two new features: (1) users can trace the usage of every container on the registry page. (2) a similarity component between all containers taking into account the metadata. At the end for each container, there is a set of suggestions for similar containers. See blast
Registration is now open for the ELIXIR EXCELERATE WP10 course Single RNA-seq data analysis with R which takes place at CSC in Espoo (Helsinki), Finland on 27-29 May 2019. The application deadline is 16 April, the course is free of charge.
Registration is open for the BioExcel Summer School on Biomolecular Simulations, taking place in Pula, Italy on 30 June - 5 July 2019. The summer school includes lectures and hands-on sessions on Molecular Dynamics simulations, Biomolecular Docking, QM/MM, Free energy calculations and advanced sampling methods (Metadynamics).
Registration to the PRACE/BioExcel Seasonal School HPC for Life Sciences is now open. The programme will allow participants to get a comprehensive understanding of the usage of the different codes; their scalability and performance, as well as ways to avoid potential issues; and learn the best practices about using them on HPC systems.
The next CORBEL webinar titled A Basic Introduction to Bioimage Analysis featuring Christian Tischer from the EMBL Centre for Bioimage Analysis (CBA), will take place on 11 April 2019 at 15:30 CEST.
Updates from Communities
The Human Copy Number Variation Community has a brand new page on the ELIXIR website.
The EASI-Genomic project invites external users to apply for Transnational Access to wet-lab and/or large-scale genomics data analysis. The First Call for proposals is open now, interested users can submit proposals by 25 April. EASI-Genomics can also provide data analysis for already existing data sets - applicants should describe available data including sequencing technology used to generate it and the objective of the analysis.
Read the latest news from Tryggve, the ELIXIR Nordic countries project for management of sensitive human data.
Updates from Nodes
Registrations are open for the SIB course "Docker for reproducible computational research", in Bern on 13 May 2019.
The second round of application for PhD fellowships as part of Ireland's new SFI Centre for Research Training in Genomics Data Science is now open (closing date 19 April).
Call for Participants: The Biological Text Mining Unit at BSC and CNIO are currently organizing the first task on chemical & drug mention recognition from Spanish medical texts PharmaCoNER, as part of the upcoming BioNLP-OST 2019 Workshop on 3-4 November 2019.
Registrations are open for two HPC workshops in Utrecht Netherlands, organised by ELIXIR-NL and SURFsara: Cluster Computing for Life Sciences on 23-24 April 2019 and Deep Learning for Life Sciences on 9 May 2019.
If you are supporting researchers in Open Science and Research Data Management and looking for ways to make your training more effective, join Open Science and Research Data Management Train-the-Trainer Bootcamp, on Wednesday 17 April in The Hague, The Netherlands. This full-day Train-the-Trainer Bootcamp organized by FOSTER, CESSDA, ELIXIR and DANS.
EMBL-EBI is organising training course Finding Evidence in Research Publications on 10-11 September 2019 in Hinxton, UK. The registration is now open.
Registrations are still open for the Genome assembly and annotation course 5, which takes place at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy, on 1-5 July 2019. The course is organized by ELIXIR Italy in cooperation with ELIXIR France, Sweden and Slovenia. The course is free of charge.
Registrations are open for the Docker and Reproducibility Course, organised by ELIXIR Italy at the University of Turin, on 13-14 June 2019. During the workshop, the participants will learn the core concepts of Docker and how to easily embed bioinformatic pipelines/workflows into a docker container.
ELIXIR Estonia is hosting a CodeRefinery workshop in Tartu on 2-4 April, sponsored by NeIC. The aim of this course is to demonstrate to and familiarize the workshop participants with best practices and tools in modern research software development.
Job board
All vacancies are also published on the ELIXIR website vacancies section (also including vacancies from industry). Submit vacancies from your Node or industry partners.
ELIXIR Norway is currently seeking a Data Manager to join ELIXIR Norway and Centre for Digital Life Norway. The deadline to apply is 1 April.
ELIXIR is seeking an experienced Communications Officer to join the ELIXIR Hub team in Hinxton, UK. The deadline to apply is 2 April.
The Instituto Gulbenkian de Cincia (part of ELIXIR Portugal) is welcoming applications for a Research Fellowship within the project "Biodata.pt Infraestrutura Portuguesa de Dados Biolgicos.
ELIXIR Belgium is opening a couple of positions, all based in Gent at the Flemish Institute for Biotechnology (VIB):
- ELIXIR Data Steward
- ELIXIR Open Science Community Manager
- ELIXIR Scientific Cloud Coordinator
- Software developer cloud data processing
- ELIXIR Software developer data management tools
- ELIXIR Bioinformatics Trainer
GRIB node of the Spanish National Institute of Bioinformatics (ELIXIR Spain) is looking for Bioinformatics technician in Computational Genomics Group (deadline 1 April).
Upcoming events
The ELIXIR TeSS portal has a variety of interesting events and courses organised by the ELIXIR Nodes.
ELIXIR events
ELIXIR Board meeting
17-20 June 2019 | Lisbon, Portugal
ELIXIR All Hands meeting