Weekly Brief 18 April 2017

Hub updates

ELIXIR plans to have two booths at this year's ECCB/ISMB conference in Prague, 21-25 July 2017. One booth will be used to showcase general ELIXIR information, the second booth for scientific and technical activities. If you are interested in showcasing your ELIXIR activities through this booth please contact us here.

We are also aiming to have an ELIXIR track for one day of the programme where ELIXIR Platform and Use Case leaders would present their activities to the community. We will work through the Platforms and Use Case leaders to arrange this.
Registration is open for the ELIXIR Core Resources for a Data Economy event, taking place in Brussels, 11 May 2017. The event will feature talks from ELIXIR partners and representatives of the European Commission, and panel discussions on the topics of impact and sustainability. Further information here.

Updates from Nodes

ELIXIR Nodes in Germany and Netherlands, in coordination with the PhenoMeNal project and the Netherlands Metabolomic Centre are organising a strategic workshop "Future of Metabolomics in ELIXIR" on 25 April 2017 at Frankfurt Airport, Germany. Register now.

Updates from Use Cases

Jordi Rambla (ELIXIR Spain) will present a webinar on the first ELIXIR Beacon study to establish GA4GH Beacons in participating ELIXIR Nodes this Wednesday 19 April 2017 (tomorrow) at 15.00 CET. Join the webinar here.

Updates from Platforms

Train-the-Trainer in clinical bioinformatics and best practices workshop to be held in Cambridge, UK, 3-5 July 2017. Further details here. Participants will be selected based on their expertise. To apply, fill in this form by 28 April.

Job board

The ELIXIR Hub is seeking a Head of ELIXIR Project Management Unit and an ELIXIR Scientific Administrator.

The Integrative Biomedical Informatics (IBI) at GRIB (IMIM-UPF, part of ELIXIR Spain) in Barcelona is seeking a Web Developer and a Database Manager to join their team.

ELIXIR Luxembourg is hiring Software Engineer to work on web-based knowledge management tools, bioinformatics analysis algorithms and GUI design and implementation. Another opening is for Science Manager to support the establishment and operation of the Node and manage its strategy development.

ELIXIR Belgium has three openings, for ELIXIR Trainer, Software Developer and for Data Science Cloud Coordinator.

Upcoming events

ELIXIR events

25 April 2017 | Frankfurt, Germany
Strategic workshop "Future of Metabolomics in ELIXIR"

22-24 May 2017 | Cambridge, UK
ELIXIR/GOBLET/GTN hackathon for Galaxy training material re-use

6-7 June 2017 | Barcelona, Spain
ELIXIR Innovation and SME Forum: Genomics, bioInformatics and health - Private-Public partnerships around open data

3-5 July 2017 | Cambridge, UK
EXCELERATE Train-the-Trainer in Clinical bioinformatics and best practices workshop