Hub updates
CORBEL is organising webinar "Single sign-on for Life Science services", tomorrow on 17 April at 14:30 CET. Speakers M. Linden (ELIXIR), K. Koumantaros (GRNET SA)
13 Member States (including many ELIXIR countries) signed a declaration on providing access to 1 million genomes by 2022. ELIXIR is referenced as a key infrastructure in the Declaration itself.
Joanna Wingender is starting today at the ELIXIR Hub as ELIXIR Administrative Officer, taking up Nicola Kay's tasks. You can reach Joanna at joanna.wingender@elixir-europe.org.
The draft ELIXIR 2019-23 Programme, along with the draft 2019-23 Financial Plan have been submitted to the ELIXIR Board for discussion at the upcoming Board meeting in Tel Aviv. Thank you to all ELIXIR partners that have contributed to the draft. The feedback from the ELIXIR Board will be taken to discussions with the ELIXIR Heads of Nodes at the June meeting. More information about the ELIXIR Scientific Programme.
13 Member States (including many ELIXIR countries) signed a declaration on providing access to 1 million genomes by 2022. ELIXIR is referenced as a key infrastructure in the Declaration itself.
Joanna Wingender is starting today at the ELIXIR Hub as ELIXIR Administrative Officer, taking up Nicola Kay's tasks. You can reach Joanna at joanna.wingender@elixir-europe.org.
The draft ELIXIR 2019-23 Programme, along with the draft 2019-23 Financial Plan have been submitted to the ELIXIR Board for discussion at the upcoming Board meeting in Tel Aviv. Thank you to all ELIXIR partners that have contributed to the draft. The feedback from the ELIXIR Board will be taken to discussions with the ELIXIR Heads of Nodes at the June meeting. More information about the ELIXIR Scientific Programme.
Updates from Platforms
The Open Science Training Handbook 1.0 is now available as a Gitbook: The Handbook focuses on practical teaching of Open Science principles. It was written by 14 experts, including Pedro Fernandez (ELIXIR PT) and Fotis E. Psomopoulos (ELIXIR GR), during a book sprint organized by FOSTER and the TIB Hannover in February 2018.
The AARC project (Authentication and Authorisation for Research and Collaboration) general meeting was held in Athens on 10-13 April 2018. AARC will provide European e-Infrastructure support for ELIXIR AAI to evolve further e.g. in the context of European Open Science Cloud.
The Review phase of the second round of selection of Core Data Resources is now complete. Reviews from External Reviewers as well as Heads of Nodes have been compiled and are being considered together in preparation for the Heads of Nodes Ranking Committee meeting on 9 May. Applicants will receive a report from that meeting the following week, on or shortly after 14 May.
Updates from Use Cases
The Marine Metagenomics Use Case published new release of MarRef and MarDB, bringing the total number of curated MAR genomes to approx 9500.
Updates from Nodes
ELIXIR Italy and UK are co-organising NETTAB 2018, titled 'Building a FAIR Bioinformatics Environment'. It will take place on 22-24 October 2018 in Genoa, Italy. The call for abstracts and papers is now open.
The list services run by ELIXIR Portugal is now on the ELIXIR website.
The cover of the SERI News' March issue (the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation's magazine) is dedicated to SIB to celebrate its 20th anniversary. You can read the interview with SIB Executive Director Ron Appel on the evolution of Swiss bioinformatics.
Registration open for three SIB courses:
Registration open for three SIB courses:
- RNA-seq: From quality control to pathway analysis, in Bern, on 30-31 May 2018.
- First Steps with UNIX in Life Sciences, in Lausanne, on 29 May 2018.
- Statistical methods for big data in life sciences and health with R, in Lausanne, on 4-7 June 2018
Register for the 7th RepeatExplorer Workshop on the Application of Next Generation Sequencing to Repetitive DNA Analysis, Institute of Plant Molecular Biology, esk Budjovice, Czech Republic, 22-24 May 2018
Registrations are open for the Data Carpentry workshop in Brussels, Belgium, on 12-13 June 2018.
Job board
ELIXIR Norway is looking for two Senior Engineers to join the Node development team at the University of Oslo.
ELIXIR Belgium is looking for Data Scientist to support integration of ELIXIR resources with its plant phenotyping software platform.
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
11 April 2018
ELIXIR Webinar: Proteome Implementation Study
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, Deadline for registration: 21 April 2018!
12-13 November 2018 | Ljubljana, Slovenia
ELIXIR Board meeting
ELIXIR Webinar: Proteome Implementation Study
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, Deadline for registration: 21 April 2018!
12-13 November 2018 | Ljubljana, Slovenia
ELIXIR Board meeting