Hub updates
Last chance to submit an abstract to the ELIXIR Application Track at ECCB 2018. The Call closes tomorrow!
The ELIXIR webinar this week will present the ELIXIR Sustainability Implementation study. Wednesday on 16 May at 15.00 CEST.
100 billion budget proposal for Horizon Europe (FP9). The Commission has recently published its proposal for the budget of Horizon Europe, which is the new name for the successor programme to Horizon 2020. The proposed budget is EUR 97 million, a substantial increase from the current budget of Horizon 2020. It is not yet know how much will be reserved for research infrastructure funding though ELIXIR will continue to feed in to this discussion. For information, our Position Paper on Horizon Europe is available on the ELIXIR website.
The ELIXIR webinar this week will present the ELIXIR Sustainability Implementation study. Wednesday on 16 May at 15.00 CEST.
100 billion budget proposal for Horizon Europe (FP9). The Commission has recently published its proposal for the budget of Horizon Europe, which is the new name for the successor programme to Horizon 2020. The proposed budget is EUR 97 million, a substantial increase from the current budget of Horizon 2020. It is not yet know how much will be reserved for research infrastructure funding though ELIXIR will continue to feed in to this discussion. For information, our Position Paper on Horizon Europe is available on the ELIXIR website.
Updates from Platforms
Identifiers.org and N2T.org published a paper in Nature Scientific Data last week to present Compact Identifiers, a service to improve data citation. Nature Scientific Data has also announced that it will adopt the Compact Identifiers for their data citations. ELIXIR contributed to Identifiers.org through ELIXIR Implementation Study funding. Read our news story to learn more.
The BioContainers community that provides system-agnostic executable environments for open source software, has passed the 4000 containers. All 4000 containers are automatically generated and tested in cooperation with the Bioconda community and can be installed and executed in an isolated and controllable environment (see http://biocontainers.pro/).
ELIXIR Training is involved in organizing two events in Trieste in August 2018. Deadline for applications to both courses is 21 May 2018.
- The CODATA-RDA Research Data Science Summer School, 6-17 August 2018
- Applied Bioinformatics workshop, 20-24 August, with focus on machine learning in bioinformatics
Updates from Use Cases
Chris Evelo and Friederike Ehrhart (ELIXIR Netherlands) published a paper in Human Mutation MECP2 variation in Rett syndrome - an overview of current coverage of genetic and phenotype data within existing databases.
Updates from Nodes
ELIXIR Greece is organising an official kick-off of the ELIXIR Greece Node on 18 May in Athens. Keynotes by Niklas Blomberg, Christine Durinx and Panayiotis Tsanakas.
ELIXIR-BE invites life scientists to the Data Carpentry workshop 12-13 June in Brussels, Belgium.
ELIXIR-FR is organising Genopole Summer School : Bioinformatics and Biostatistical tools in medical genomics. 25-29 June, 2018, Chteauform Seine-Port, Paris Region
Application open for the 4th de.NBI/ELIXIR-DE summer school Riding the Data Life Cycle at BRICS Braunschweig, Germany, 3-7 September 2018
ELIXIR Luxembourg will hold an EMBO supported Practical Course on Phenotyping neurological syndromes, on 4-10 Oct in Luxembourg. Registration is now open.
Job board
ELIXIR Hub is looking for Operations Support Officer to implement a range of process developments for managing and reporting on the technical programme.
ELIXIR Sweden is looking for one or two agile system developers to join the SciLifeLab team at the Uppsala University.
The EMBL-EBI Training team is looking for an Scientifc Project Officer for a six-month period to support the EU-funded projects BioExcel and CORBEL.
CSC (ELIXIR Finland) is looking for a Technical data management specialist.
ELIXIR Sweden is looking for one or two agile system developers to join the SciLifeLab team at the Uppsala University.
The EMBL-EBI Training team is looking for an Scientifc Project Officer for a six-month period to support the EU-funded projects BioExcel and CORBEL.
CSC (ELIXIR Finland) is looking for a Technical data management specialist.
Upcoming events
The ELIXIR TeSS portal has a variety of interesting events and courses organised by the ELIXIR Nodes.
ELIXIR events
16 May 2018
ELIXIR Webinar on the Sustainability Implementation Study
23 May 2018
ELIXIR Webinar: Access to Sensitive Human Data with the ELIXIR AAI
4-7 June 2018 | Berlin, Germany
ELIXIR All Hands meeting
13 June 2018
ELIXIR Webinar on the Systems Biology Implementation Study
6-10 July 2018, Chicago, USA
ISMB 2018 (including ELIXIR Session on 10 July)
8-12 September | Athens, Greece
ECCB 2018 (including ELIXIR Application Track)
12-13 November 2018 | Ljubljana, Slovenia
ELIXIR Board meeting
12-16 November 2018 | Paris, France
ELIXIR Biohackathon
ELIXIR Webinar on the Sustainability Implementation Study
23 May 2018
ELIXIR Webinar: Access to Sensitive Human Data with the ELIXIR AAI
4-7 June 2018 | Berlin, Germany
ELIXIR All Hands meeting
13 June 2018
ELIXIR Webinar on the Systems Biology Implementation Study
6-10 July 2018, Chicago, USA
ISMB 2018 (including ELIXIR Session on 10 July)
8-12 September | Athens, Greece
ECCB 2018 (including ELIXIR Application Track)
12-13 November 2018 | Ljubljana, Slovenia
ELIXIR Board meeting
12-16 November 2018 | Paris, France
ELIXIR Biohackathon