Weekly Brief 13 August 2018

Hub updates

Leyla Garcia is joining the ELIXIR Hub as a visitor over the next five months to work with Rafael Jimenez on Bioschemas and the European Open Science Cloud in a project funded through the EOSCPilot grant. Leyla is coming from EMBL-EBI's Uniprot team.

Updates from Platforms

A group of 15 people involved in Software Development Best Practices Group met in Utrecht DTL office on 1-3 August for a hackathon, working on training material development for Four Simple Recommendations for Open Source Software". This was the second event of this initiative and first with the focus on lesson content writing. The efforts continue online via the lesson's GitHub repository.

Rob Hooft from ELIXIR Netherlands and Sarah Jones from Digital Curation Centre gave a webinar about Tools for Data Management planning in the EBI webinar series Bringing data to life: data management for the biomolecular sciences.

The NETTAB Conference 2018 in October in Genoa, Italy, will host a workshop Building a FAIR Bioinformatics environment on 22 October. The workshop will be present Bioschemas, a lightway approach to enable FAIRer data resources. Additionaly, on 24 October there will be tutorial organized by ELIXIR Netherlands and ELIXIR Czech Republic about the ELIXIR Data Stewardship Wizard how to guide life science researchers towards FAIR data management. Registration for one or both tutorials can be done through the online workshop registration form.

Updates from Use Cases

You can register for the BioData World Congress 2018 on 28-29 November 2018 in Basel. You can register as guest free of charge by filling the online form.

Updates from Nodes

Registration is open for the ELIXIR Netherlands Galaxy Course Bioinformatics for Translational Medicine using Galaxy: see it, do it, teach it! 17-19 October 2018 in Amsterdam.

Job board

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 Swedish ELIXIR Node is hiring two bioinformatics experts stationed at Lund University.

Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC, part of ELIXIR Spain) is looking for an INB/ELIXIR-ES Training and Support Officer (RE1). The candidate will contribute to revamp the existing ELIXIR-ES training portfolio and to strengthen the coordination of the Node.

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