Weekly Brief 14th March 2016

Hub updates

Thank you to everyone who joined us in Barcelona last week for the ELIXIR All Hands meeting. Slides and photos are already online.

Slides and posters from the meeting will also been made available via the ELIXIR channel on the F1000 Research publication platform.

Representatives from the ELIXIR Hub will present an update on the BioSchemas project as part of the ELIXIR Webinar Series this Wednesday 16 March, 15:00 CET. Join the webinar here.

ELIXIR will be the main organising sponsor of the 15th European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB), to take place on 3-7 September 2016 in The Hague, the Netherlands. The programme of the conference will feature a dedicated track to showcase ELIXIR activities. The talks in the ELIXIR track will be selected through an open call, together with the general ECCB 2016 call. The deadline for submissions is 29 March 2016.

Registration is now open for the next ELIXIR Innovation and SME Forum: Data-driven innovation in the aquaculture and marine industries. The event will take place in Oslo, Norway, on 12-13 May 2016. Please share this information with your industry contacts.

ELIXIR is presented as Landmark in the 2016 ESFRI roadmap lanched last week in Amsterdam.

Job board

The ELIXIR Hub is seeking an ELIXIR Industry and International Officer to join the team at Hinxton.

The Dutch Techcentre for Life Science (DTL, ELIXIR Netherlands) is seeking two Software Engineers - Linked Data.

The Bioinformatics Training Facility of the School of Biological Sciences, University of Cambridge (UoC) is looking for a Training Impact Co-ordinator.

SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics is seeking a project manager and Clinical Bioinformatics Project Manager to join their team.

Applications are invited for a research assistant position at the Biology Centre ASCR (Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic), part of ELIXIR CZ.

Upcoming events

15-16 March 2016| Manchester UK
Joint ELIXIR and DARIAH "AAI Workshop for Service and Resource Providers"

17-18 March 2016 | Leuven, Belgium
VIB 'Applied Bioinformatics in Life Sciences' Conference

21-22 March 2016| Manchester, UK
Samples Club (an ELIXIR EXCELERATE BYOD Event)

24-25 March 2016| Gif sur Yvettes, France
ELIXIR Curation & Usability Hackathon: Registration of Tools & Data Services

4-8 April 2016, Lausanne, Switzerland
Chip-seq data analysis: from quality check to motif discovery and more - An introduction to the tools and databases of the EPD team

7-8 April 2016 | Hinxton, UK
GOBLET/ELIXIR hackaton for metagenomics training materials re-use

10-14 April 2016 | Geneva, Switzerland
Biocuration 2016

12-14 April 2016, Lausanne, Switzerland
Introduction to Markov models

19-20 April 2016 | Lunteren, The Netherlands
Dutch Bioinformatics & Systems Biology conference (BioSB 2016)

25-27 April 2016, Lausanne, Switzerland
Exploring common and rare disease genetics with GWAS and NGS

26-27 April 2016 | Copenhagen, Denmark
1st European Conference for Translational Bioinformatics

2-5 May 2016 | Naples, Italy
NGS for evolutionary biologists: from basic scripting to variant calling

12-13 May 2016 | Oslo, Norway
ELIXIR Innovation and SME Forum: Data-driven innovation in the aquaculture and marine industries

18-20 May 2016 | Paris, France
Technical Hackathon: Tools, Workflows and Workbenches

29 May - 2 June 2016, Leukerbad, Switzerland
Spring School Bioinformatics and Population Genomics