Hub updates
ELIXIR Heads of Nodes will meet in Woking, UK, this week for their annual retreat meeting. The agenda includes the review of a number of new ELIXIR Implementation Studies scheduled for launch later this year, priorities for the 2018 Work Plan and discussion related to the next ELIXIR Scientific Programme (2019-2023). A full update from the meeting will follow.
We are pleased to announce that Susheel Varma has joined the ELIXIR Hub as Technical Coordinator for Human Genomics and Translational Data.
The second ELIXIR SME and Innovation Forum in 2017 took place last week in Barcelona, Spain. Read the report from the event for more details, including slides and photos.
Platform updates
The ELIXIR Tools Platform (EXCELERATE WP2) will be holding a workshop on Benchmarking: Incentives and Best Practices across Scientific Disciplines - Abstracting from Established Evaluations at the BC2 conference taking place in Basel, Switzerland on 12 September 2017. Full details.
Updates from Use Cases
Those interested in structural biology facilities may wish to complete a survey conducted by the iNEXT project, which aims to capture some of the key factors that affect the use of infrastructure by researchers across the broad life science sector.
EXCELERATE updates
ELIXIR-EXCELERATE has been highlighted in European Commission's interim evaluation of Horizon 2020 (page 84).
Job board
The Institute of Biotechnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences has a Postdoctoral Position in Computation Biology available.
SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics is looking for a Chief Operating Officer to strengthen the team of the Vital-IT Competence Centre in Lausanne.
Upcoming events
See the ELIXIR TeSS portal for all events organised by ELIXIR Nodes. ELIXIR events
19-23 June 2017| Ljubljana, Slovenia
2nd ELIXIR EXCELERATE Genome Assembly and Annotation course
3-5 July 2017 | Cambridge, UK
EXCELERATE Train-the-Trainer in Clinical bioinformatics and best practices workshop
18-22 September 2017 | Rome, Italy
5th International Summer School/BYOD event: Rare Disease & Orphan Drug Registries