Weekly Brief 12 March 2018

Hub updates

 
Register for the ELIXIR All Hands meeting in Berlin on 4-7 June 2018. You can also submit posters and flash talks. The deadline is 4 April 2018!

Slides from last week's ELIXIR webinar to present the integration of de.NBI cloud with ELIXIR AAI are now available online. The video recording will be available soon.

This week's webinar will present the ELIXIR Equal Opportunity Strategy, Wednesday 14 March 2018 at 15.00 CET.

Updates from Platforms

 
ELIXIR Compute Platform organises ELIXIR AAI training to help Node services providers to integrate their services to ELIXIR AAI. 24-25 April, Munich, Germany.

CORBEL and AARC2 are also organising AAI Training Workshop for developers of the BMS research infrastructures planning to implement an AAI solution for federated access to their services, 23-24 April, Munich, Germany. Register online!
 
Christine Durinx (SIB) and Jo McEntyre (EMBL-EBI), have been nominated for Benjamin Franklin Award for their work as the ELIXIR Data Platform leads on long-term sustainability of open data resources. Another nominee is Francis Ouelette, the Chair of ELIXIR Scientific Advisory Board. You can vote on bioinformatics.org.
 
A Galaxy community kick off meeting and galaxy user conference will be held next week in Freiburg, Germany (14-16 March).
 
Registration open for the SIB course Chip-seq data analysis: from quality check to motif discovery and more: An introduction to the tools and databases of the Eurkaryotic Promoter Database (EPD) team, Lausanne, Switzerland, 9-13 April 2018

You can still register for the Workshop Applying bioinformatics and data science competency frameworks to ELIXIR Training, 5-6 April 2018, Amsterdam. The workshop is aimed at experts in defining and applying competency bioinformatics and data science frameworks.

The next ELIXIR Train the Trainer course course is taking place in Paris on 26-27 March 2018. It is organised by ELIXIR France in collaboration with ELIXIR Italy and ELIXIR Switzerland.

Update from Nodes

 
Read the latest news from DTL (ELIXIR Netherlands) in the DTL March 2018 Newsletter.

Job board

 
ELIXIR Belgium is looking for Data Scientist to support integration of ELIXIR resources with its plant phenotyping software platform.

Upcoming events

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

ELIXIR events

14 March 2018
ELIXIR Webinar: Equal Opportunities

17 April 2018
CORBEL Webinar: Single sign-on for Life Science services

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