Updates from Platforms
The ELIXIR Training Platform is organising two GOBLET-EXCELERATE satellite meetings to the GOBLET 2017 AGM (22-24 November 2017, Oeiras, Portugal):
- e-learning Workshop 21 November 2017 (full day)
- Train the Trainer Workshop 'From knowledge, skills and abilities to learning paths: developing mastery rubrics for training', 24 November 2017 (afternoon)
More information and registration for these events New bio.tools release brigns various bug fixes and improvements:
- bio.tools follows a new simple tool ID scheme, where unique tool IDs are URL-safe versions of the supplied tool names
- bio.tools is adopting tool information standards for monitoring and possibly labelling bio.tools entries on the basis of completeness and quality
Please provide feedback via GitHub!
Updates from Use Cases
ELIXIR Switzerland and the Zurich University released a new forward looking Beacon interface that implements additional features based on the pediatric high-grade glioma dataset from MacKay et al. (Cancer Cell 2017).
Updates from Nodes
ISA is flying high: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) GeneLab platform, which expands scientists' access to research carried out in space environments, is the latest adopter of the ISA framework, an resource of the UK Node ELIXIR Czech Republic is organisingthe ELIXIR CZ Annual Conference on 15-16 November in Třešť. The 10th Annual SME Bioinformatics Forum by EMBL-EBI takes place on 1 November in Hinxton. Registration is open!
EMBL-EBI is organising training course Introduction to Metabolomics Analysis in Hinxton, UK, on 20-23 March 2018. The registration is now open.
Job board
There are three ELIXIR Platform Coordinator positions open to coordinate the Tools, Compute or Interoperability Platforms.
There are two internship positions open at the ELIXIR Hub: the Bioschemas internship and the ELIXIR Beacons internship.
ELIXIR Germany is looking for a Computer Science / Bioinformatics / cloud computing scientist at the Bioinformatics Department, Medizinisches Proteom-Center. Link to the advert in English.
EMBL-EBI is looking for an ELIXIR Competency Centre Project Manager to work within a new EC funded project - European Open Science Cloud Hub.
Upcoming events
The ELIXIR TeSS portal has a wide variety of inspirational events and courses organised by the ELIXIR Nodes. ELIXIR events
11-13 October 2017 | Paris, France
Joint ELIXIR Technical and Training Co-ordinators meeting
14-15 November 2017 | Paris, France
ELIXIR Innovation and SME Forum: Data Driven Innovation in Rare Diseases and Personalised Medicine
4-7 June 2018 | Berlin, Germany
ELIXIR All Hands meeting