Hub Updates
The first trans-national call through the European Joint Programme for Rare Diseases (EJP-RD) has opened. The call includes a topic on '-omic or multi-omic integrated approaches for discovery of disease causes and mechanisms including development of relevant bioinformatic tools, which may be of interest to Nodes. The call text references ELIXIR as an infrastructure of relevance. The deadline is 15 February. Please note that only institutes based in countries that have national funding agencies taking part are eligible for funding.
Platform updates
As part of the ELIXIR-Carpentries agreement, ELIXIR Slovenia will host an ELIXIR Data Carpentry for Genomics on January 29-30 at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Course attendance for ELIXIR members is free of charge. More info and registration can be found on the ELIXIR-SI eLearning Platform.
Application are open for CORBEL Data Visualisation for Biology: a practical workshop on design, techniques and tools in Hinxton, UK, on 11-15 March 2019. The regsitration deadline is on 25 January 2019.
Communities updates
The ELIXIR Plant Community is pleased to announce that MIAPPE version 1.1, an updated specification of the Minimal Information About a Plant Phenotyping Experiment, has been officially released. Work is now commencing on the next version of MIAPPE, v2.0 and further improvements can be suggested via miappe-feedback@ebi.ac.uk
Updates from Nodes
DTL & ELIXIR Netherlands in collaboration with the French, UK, and German Nodes, is organising an event Boost Your Visibility Improving F of FAIR for Dutch Training and Data Resources through Bioschemas in Utrecht, the Netherlands. The pre-registration is now open.
EMBL-EBI is organising a training course Metagenomics Bioinformatics on 10-13 June 2019 in Hinxton, UK. The registration is now open.
Applications are open for two SIB courses:
- NGS - Quality control, Alignment, Visualisation, Bern, 27 February - 1 March 2019
- Python for Life Scientists, Bern, 4-6 March 2019
Applications are open for the ELIXIR Italy course Single Cell RNA Sequencing and Data Analysis, on 7-10 May 2019 at the Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine (TIGEM), Italy.
Job board
ELIXIR Luxembourg is hiring Research Associate in the field of clinical and translational medicine informatics (postdoctoral position) to support the ELIXIR coordinated IMI project FAIRPlus.
IRB Barcelona (part of ELIXIR Spain) is currently looking to hire a talented and highly motivated Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Structural Bioinformatics and Network Biology group.
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (part of ELIXI Spain) is looking for a highly motivated Research Engineer to join the Computational Genomics group.
The Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (part of ELIXIR Netherlands) has an open tenure track position in Bioinformatics or Statistical Machine Learning. Applications need to be received by 19 December 2018.
Upcoming events
The ELIXIR TeSS portal has a variety of interesting events and courses organised by the ELIXIR Nodes.
ELIXIR events
ELIXIR Innovation and SME event: Genomics and Associated Data in National Healthcare Initiatives