Weekly Brief 10 September 2018

Hub updates

The ECCB 2018 in Athens is underway with eight workshops, a dedicated ELIXIR Application track, and a Poster session. Follow the event on twitter via #eccb18 You'll find all relevant info on the ELIXIR website and at www.eccb18.org.

The Call for Proposals for ELIXIR Community-led Implementation Studies is now open. The slides from last week's webinar to present the application and review process are now online, the video recording will be ready by Friday this week.

The EOSCpilot 10th Webinar will be dedicated to Governance. Andy Smith and Pascal Kahlem will present the Recommendations for a minimal set of Rules of Participation for EOSC. Next week on Tuesday 18 September at 12:30 CEST. Register online!

Updates from Platforms

Registration is open for the ELIXIR-Carpentries Instructor Training, to take place at EMBL Heidelberg, Germany, on 8-9 October 2018.

Registration is also open for the ELIXIR-EXCELERATE Train the Trainer event in Stockholm, Sweden, on 9-11 October 2018. The event is a collaboration between ELIXIR Sweden and ELIXIR Italy.

Four Open Source Software recommendations #4OSS. We welcome comments, testimonials, examples, resources to this repository of 4OSS lessons. You can share the link to this repository for others to be aware of this work in progress and then reuse it!

Updates from Communities

ELIXIR Nodes and partners in Finland, Italy, Switzerland and the UK are running a survey aimed at users of ELIXIR tools and resources for human genomic variation. The survey is open until 30 September and is open to all.

Updates from Nodes

Registrations are open for the SIB course on First Steps with R in Life Sciences, in Lausanne, Switzerland, on 6-7 November 2018.

Tabloid Proteome is a database of protein association network generated using publically available mass spectrometry based experiments in PRIDE. ELIXIR Belgium is organising training course about ProteomeXchange, PRIDE, MassIVE and Tabloid Proteome in Ghent on 10 October 2018.

Job board

ELIXIR is offering an internship position relating to Beacon. The candidate will support the ELIXIR Beacon implementation study and the Beacon activities driven by the Human Genomics and Translational Data Services at the ELIXIR Hub.

The SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics Data Coordination Centre (DCC) and BioMedIT in Basel (part of ELIXIR Switzerland) is looking for a Director, Data Coordination Centre and Personalized Health Informatics Group

The SIB Text Mining group in Geneva (part of ELIXIR Switzerland) is looking for three associate researchers.

The Galaxy team at the University of Freiburg (part of ELIXIR Germany) is looking for a full time JavaScript developer to support the development of the Galaxy Europe instance.

Upcoming events

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

ELIXIR events

8-12 September | Athens, Greece
ECCB 2018 (including ELIXIR Application Track)

1-2 October 2018 | Utrecht, Netherlands
Joint Technical Coordinators & Training Coordinators meeting

15-16 October 2018 | Frankfurt, Germany
ELIXIR Innovation and SME Forum on Industrial Biotechnology

12-13 November 2018 | Ljubljana, Slovenia
ELIXIR Board meeting

11 December 2018 | Brussels, Belgium
ELIXIR 5th Anniversary Event

12 December | Brussels, Belgium
HoN meeting