Hub updates
FAIRPlus grant awarded
The FAIRPlus proposal, coordinated by ELIXIR, has just passed stage two review and invited into contract negotiations. The project proposal was submitted to the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI), and will see ELIXIR Nodes and other academic partners supporting EFPIA companies and specific IMI projects in making their data FAIR. The expectation is that the project will begin in late 2018 and a formal news release will be issued closer to the start of the grant. Serena Scollen will be PI of the grant, along with Herman Van Vlijmen of J&J. The following ELIXIR Nodes involved as partners: ELIXIR Netherlands, ELIXIR UK, ELIXIR Luxembourg, ELIXIR Spain, ELIXIR Switzerland and EBI.
Applications are still open for the Executive Masters in Management in Research Infrastructures, an international management development programme tailored to the specific needs of Research Infrastructures. Applications are welcome for the full master, as a team, and for individual modules. Closing date for applications is Wednesday, 25 July.
Updates from Platforms
The call for Recommended Interoperability Resource submissions is closing at 23:59 BST tonight. Please be reminded that the next call will not be
opened until the end of 2018.
For those who post reprints, or track them from the most recent science updates - you can now find reprints alongside peer reviewed research in Europe PMC and claim them to your ORCID. Over 37,000 preprint abstracts from bioRxiv, PeerJ Preprints, ChemRxiv, and F1000 can be searched both on the website and via the API. Each preprint is clearly labelled and cross-linked to the published article. More information is available in the release announcement.
The materials of the SURFsara/ELIXIR-NL Course Data management and computational workflows that took place on 25 June in Amsterdam are now available on GitHub.
Registration is now open for the ELIXIR-NL Galaxy Course - Bioinformatics for Translational Medicine using Galaxy: see it, do it, teach it!, scheduled from 17-19 October 2018 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
TeSS has created new live feeds of training-related content from Open Targets, Intermine, and eNanoMapper.
Updates from Nodes
Job board
The Swedish ELIXIR Node is hiring two bioinformatics experts stationed at Lund University.
The Proteomics Team at EMBL-EBI is looking for software developer to work on the ELIXIR BioContainers Implementation study.Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC, part of ELIXIR Spain) is looking for Research software engineer to support BSC's ELIXIR related activities, particularly the back-end development of OpenEBench.
Masaryk University (part of ELIXIR Czech Republic) is looking for Scientific Software Architect to join the CERIT-SC team.
ELIXIR Switzerland is looking for post-doc to work on life science semantic data integration. The post holder will be part of the CALIPHO group, affiliated to the University of Geneva.
ELIXIR Sweden is looking for one or two agile system developers to join the SciLifeLab team at the Uppsala University.
Upcoming events
The ELIXIR TeSS portal has a variety of interesting events and courses organised by the ELIXIR Nodes.
ELIXIR events
ECCB 2018 (including ELIXIR Application Track)
15-16 October 2018 | Frankfurt, Germany
ELIXIR Innovation and SME Forum on Industrial Biotechnology
12-13 November 2018 | Ljubljana, Slovenia
ELIXIR Board meeting
12-16 November 2018 | Paris, France
ELIXIR Biohackathon
11 December 2018 | Brussels, Belgium
ELIXIR 5th Anniversary Event