Weekly Brief 16 May 2016

Hub updates

If you've missed the deadline for the ECCB 2016 ELIXIR Application track, you can still submit your abstract to the general Application track at ECCB 2016. The deadline is today.

Simon Jupp (EMBL-EBI) will present the new version of the Ontology Lookup Service in the ELIXIR Webinar on Wednesday 18 May, at 15.00 CEST. The webinars are open to anyone to take part.

BBMRI has published an "FAQ" on issues around the Data Protection Regulation due to come into force in 2018.

Node updates

ELIXIR Norway hosted ELIXIR Innovation and SME Forum on data-driven innovation in the aquaculture and marine industries in Oslo on 12-13 May. Slides are already online. ELIXIR Spain was one of the sponsors of the XIII Symposium on Bioinformatics held on 10-13 May in Valencia, Spain.

Updates from platforms

You can now submit your training related activities as a poster abstract to the ECCB 2016 conference in the Training category, which has been recently added. The deadline is 3 June 2016. Chris Evelo (ELIXIR Netherlands) is the new co-leader of the Interoperability Platform, replacing Barend Mons (Head of Dutch ELIXIR Node).

Job board

The ELIXIR Hub is seeking a Grant Support Officer to support pre- and post-award administrative aspects of ELIXIR grants.
The Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) is seeking a system administrator for their prospective ELIXIR Node.
EMBL-EBI is seeking an E-Infrastructure Integration Specialist to work on ELIXIR related activities within the EBI Technical Services team.

The University of Manchester (ELIXIR-UK) is seeking a Senior Research Software Engineer to co-ordinate identifier and interoperability efforts within the CORBEL project.

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

Upcoming events

ELIXIR Technical events

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

13-15 June | Espoo, Finland
ELIXIR-EXCELERATE workshop on variant analysis

30 June - 1 July 2016 | Hinxton, UK
ELIXIR-GA4GH Beacon Security Workshop

Meetings and Conferences organised by ELIXIR Nodes

25-26 Aug 2016 | Odense, Denmark.
Annual Danish Bioinformatics Conference.

ELIXIR related Workshops and Courses organised by ELIXIR Nodes

23-25 May 2016 | Espoo, Finland
Using clouds and VMs in bioinformatics training

23-27 May 2016 | Delft, Netherlands
Course: Algorithms for Biological Networks (4th edition)

24 May 2016 | Geneva, Switzerland
First Steps with UNIX in Life Sciences

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

7-10 June 2016 | Naples, Italy
RNA-Seq data analysis workshop

16-17 June | Espoo, Finland
Variant analysis with GATK

20-21 June 2016, Lausanne, Switzerland
Software Carpentry Workshop

23-24 June 2016 | Basel, Switzerland
Software Carpentry Workshop