Weekly Brief 19 March 2018

Hub updates

 
Video recordings from ELIXIR webinar to on the integration of de.NBI cloud with ELIXIR AAI is now available online. Slides from another webinar on ELIXIR Equal Opportunity Strategy are online as well. Recordings will be available during this week.

The next webinar on the Proteome Implemetation study has been postponed to 11 April 2018 at 15.00 CET!

Updates from Platforms

 
Read about the new Life Sciences AAI to support life science researchers, developed within the AARC2 project.

ELIXIR Compute Platform organises ELIXIR AAI training, to help Node services providers to integrate their services to ELIXIR AAI. 24-25 April, Munich, Germany.

CORBEL and AARC2 are also organising AAI Training Workshop for developers of the BMS research infrastructures planning to implement an AAI solution for federated access to their services, 23-24 April, Munich, Germany. Register online!
 
Registration open for the first ELIXIR Software Carpentry Workshop on 28-29 March 2018 in Paris at the Pasteur Institut.

Applications open for Belgium-Dutch Transcriptomics Data Analysis Summer School 26-31 August 2018 in Leuven - More information

Registration open for the ELIXIR-EXCELERATE Train the Trainers course on 26-27 March in Paris at the Pasteur Institut

Registration still open for the workshop Applying bioinformatics and data science competency frameworks to ELIXIR Training, 5-6 April 2018, Amsterdam with an additional seminar Designing effective instruction and interpretable assessment by Allegra Via (ELIXIR-Italy) at April 4 2018.

Updates from Use Cases

 
The Beacon project has released new Beacon API v0.4 specifications to provide greater search functions and richer search results. More information is available on brand new Beacon website: http://beacon-project.io.

Update from Nodes

 
 
ELIXIR Belgium organised a tour of tidyverse workshops in 4 different cities (Antwerp, Leuven, Ghent and Brussels), with a total of 81 attendees. The workshops were very well received and we also managed to establish links with different institutions.

Job board

 
ELIXIR Belgium is looking for Data Scientist to support integration of ELIXIR resources with its plant phenotyping software platform.

Upcoming events

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

ELIXIR events

11 April 2018
ELIXIR Webinar: Proteome Implementation Study

17 April 2018
CORBEL Webinar: Single sign-on for Life Science services

24-25 April 2018 | Tel Aviv
ELIXIR Board meeting

4-7 June 2018 | Berlin, Germany
ELIXIR All Hands meeting, Deadline for registration: 4 April 2018!

12-13 November 2018 | Ljubljana, Slovenia
ELIXIR Board meeting