Weekly Brief, 10 February 2020

Hub updates

We have published an article in the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS) network website introducing ELIXIR to biochemical researchers.

We have opened registration and flash talk submission for the next ELIXIR Bioinformatics Industry Forum. Taking place in London close to St Pancras international train station, on the 28 April 2020. Please register and share among your networks - if you would like a copy of the poster for promotion please contact ELIXIR Communications Officer Xnia (xenia.sitja@elixir-europe.org) or Industry Officer Kathi (katharina.lauer@elixir-europe.org).

The final two EXCELERATE factsheets have been added to our collection. Read on to find out about the exciting developments in our International Strategy and Industry engagement during EXCELERATE. You can find the full collection on out publications page.

Updates from Nodes

ELIXIR-FR is glad to announce the new release of ProteoRE (V2.1), a Galaxy-based instance for the interpretation and exploration of proteomics data for biomedical research sciences.

ELIXIR-CH is happy to introduce a new member of the SIB Training Group, Monique Zahn monique.zahn@sib.swiss.
Welcome on board!

Updates from Platforms

The application to fund (2000) up to 10 established training events for 2020.Deadline is next Monday 17 of February. Any questions contact Jessica Lindvall (ELIXIR-SE), jessica.lindvall@nbis.se

Your help needed! We are looking for participants from a bioinformatics background at all career stages for a usability survey for ELIXIRs TeSS to help with a final-year undergraduate project. Any questions contact Nancy Zheng (wenyao.zheng@student.manchester.ac.uk). There are two options:

Skype call and online survey (30-60 minutes) please book a slot. A standalone task-book and online survey.

This week ELIXIR Training Platform representatives, Annalisa Milano and Gabriella Rustici, met with the Hub technical team to discuss how to measure the impact of training on ELIXIR Services, Platforms and communities. This effort is in line with the 2019-23 Project Plan.

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.

Bioinformatics Training and Support - SIB, ELIXIR Switzerland
Training Group at SIB and Interfaculty Bioinformatics Unit at University of Bern

System Developer
Elixir Norway

Natural Language Processing Engineer position at the Integrative Biomedical Informatics group
Research Programme on Biomedical Informatics (GRIB)

Bioinformatician / Computational biologist at the Computational Genomics group
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS) and Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona)

Bioinformatics Post-doc - Single Cell RNAseq of innate immune cells
Bordeaux Bioinformatics Center (CBiB)
 

Upcoming ELIXIR events

The ELIXIR TeSS portal has a variety of interesting events and courses organised by the ELIXIR Nodes.

ELIXIR events

ELIXIR Guest Webinar: Text mining of disease-gene networks
19 February 2020 | Online | 14:00 GMT/15:00 CET

ELIXIR Train-the-Trainer
5 - 6 March 2020 | Thessaloniki, Greece

Innovation and SME Forum: Data Driven Innovation in the Agritech Sector
24 -25 March 2020 | Lyon, France

ELIXIR Bioinformatics Industry Forum
28 April 2020 | London, UK