Weekly Brief 18 March 2019

Hub updates

The first ELIXIR Bioinformatics Supplier Forum will take place in London on 7 May 2019. The programme and registration are available through the ELIXIR webiste.

The ELIXIR Innovation and SME Forum took place on 5 March in Stockholm, Sweden. The topic was Genomics and Associated Data in National Healthcare Initiatives, the presentations of Illumina, Genomics England, AstraZeneca and others. The photos and slides are now available online.

The EOSC-Life kick-off meeting is taking place this week on 20-21 March in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

The 2nd EOSC-hub Week is taking place on 10-12 April 2019 in Prague, Czech Republic. The registration is open until 31 March 2019.

The next CORBEL webinar titled A Basic Introduction to Bioimage Analysis will take place on 11 April 2019 at 15:30 CEST. More information and registration.

Updates from Platforms

The BioHackathon2019 call for hacking projects is now open and will close on 7 April. Submission of proposals will be coordinated through Easychair bh2019 and if you have any questions please contact Jen Harrow (jen.Harrow@elixir-europe.org).

If your role involves the management, storage, transformation and annotation of data in order to answer biological questions, take part in an online survey to map the landscape of biocuration, the resources and tools used and the training that is available and required.

Registrations are open for the Bioinformatics Education Summit aimed at bioinformatics trainers and educators. The event will take place in Cape Town, South Africa, 14-17 May 2019 and is being organised by H3ABioNet in collaboration with ELIXIR, GOBLET and the ISCB Education Committee. The meeting will focus on developing guidelines and materials for bioinformatics trainers.

Updates from Communities

Four new ELIXIR Communities-led Implementation Studies for 2019 have been selected to boost the development of Community-oriented resources and their integration with ELIXIR Platforms.

Updates from Nodes

SIB is organising the SIB Bioinformatics Awards to promote excellence and innovation in the bioinformatics. The nomination is now open for Early Career Bioinformatician Award,
Best Swiss Bioinformatics Graduate Paper Award, SIB Bioinformatics Resource Innovation Award.

Registrations are open for four SIB courses:

• First Steps with UNIX in Life Sciences, in Lausanne on 28 May 2019.
• Introduction to openBIS, in Lausanne on 7 May 2019
• Two courses Introduction to R Shiny. One at the University of Lausanne on 02 May, and the other at the University of Zurich on 06 May.

Registrations are open for the ELIXIR Software Carpentry in Ljubljana on 16-17 May 2019. The workshop is organised by ELIXIR Slovenia in cooperation with Data & Software Carpentry and will focus on the basics of the R programming language. There is no registration fee. The limit of participants is 20.

Registrations are open for the course PDA19 - Proteomics Data Analysis on 1-5 April 2019 with Lennart Martens, Harald Barsnes and Lieven Clement. The deadline for applications is on 25 March.

Registrations are open for the ELIXIR Greece Carpentries workshop, June 3-4, at the National Hellenic Research Foundation in Athens Greece. The course will address core concepts on Unix, Git and Data Analysis and Visualization in R.

Registrations are open for the course, Summer School - Bioinformatics for Biologists: An introduction to Data Exploration, Statistics and Reproducibility, 1-5 July 2019, Cambridge, UK. The course will focus on solutions around handling biological data and will cover introductory lessons in data manipulation and visualisation in R, statistical analyses, and reproducibility. The Registration is now open!

Registrations are open for the Genome assembly and annotation course 5, to take place in Milan, Italy, on 1-5 July 2019. The course is organized by ELIXIR Italy in cooperation with ELIXIR France, Sweden and Slovenia.

Registrations are now open for the ELIXIR Finland course Variant analysis with GATK on 14-17 May 2019 in Espoo, Finland.

ELIXIR Luxembourg is running its annual R tidyverse course in Luxembourg, May 14-17, 2019. In this four day course, D1 and D2 are devoted to introduction to the basic tidyverse packages, D3 are advanced topics and changes, D4 is BYOD/project work. Registration is open!

Registrations are open for the ELIXIR Belgium workshop on Computing skills for reproducible research: Software Carpentry on 16-17 April 2019 in Brussels, Belgium.

Registrations are open for two HPC workshops in Utrecht Netherlands, organised by ELIXIR Netherlands and SURFsara: Cluster Computing for Life Sciences on 23-24 April 2019 and Deep Learning for Life Sciences on 9 May 2019.

Job board

All vacancies are also published on the ELIXIR website vacancies section (also including vacancies from industry). Submit vacancies from your Node or industry partners.

ELIXIR Norway is currently seeking a Data Manager to join ELIXIR Norway and Centre for Digital Life Norway. The deadline to apply is 1 April.

ELIXIR is seeking an experienced Communications Officer to join the ELIXIR Hub team in Hinxton, UK. The deadline to apply is 2 April.

Cancer Research Institute of Salamanca is looking for Bioinformatics Researcher in the Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics Group. The deadline to apply is 14 March 2019.

ELIXIR Hub is also looking for Project Support Administrator (deadline 24 March) and Administrative Assistant. (deadline 31 March).

Oxford University is looking for Research Software Engineer to join the Oxford e-Research Centre. The successful candidate will work across multi-partner projects to improve FAIRness of datasets, algorithms, software and scholarly articles.

SIB Training and sciCORE (ELIXIR Switzerland groups) are looking for a Bioinformatics Training and Support Specialist to support training and research services.

Upcoming events

The ELIXIR TeSS portal has a variety of interesting events and courses organised by the ELIXIR Nodes.

ELIXIR events