Hub updates
Cyprus has today joined ELIXIR as an Observer country. The ELIXIR Node in Cyprus will be formed by the Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics, the University of Cyprus, and the Agricultural Research Institute.
The ELIXIR Board approved Cyprus's application during an extraordinary Board meeting taking place today in Barcelona, Spain.
Updates from Platforms
The deadline for application for the ELIXIR Recommended Interoperability Resources (RIRs) in in two weeks. More information is available on the ELIXIR website.
Register for the Biohackathon in Paris on 12-16 November 2018. More information and registration form: https://2018.biohackathon-europe.org/
Updates from Nodes
ELIXIR Czech Republic has published two paper in Nucleic Acid Research, presenting two software tools: HotSpot Wizard 3.0 a web server for identification of hot spots and design of smart libraries for proteins engineering, and CalFitter, a computational tool for analysis of protein thermal denaturation data.
Registrations are still open for the SIB course on Comparative Genomics, in Lausanne on 3-5 September 2018.
Job board
The Proteomics Team at EMBL-EBI is looking for software developer to work on the ELIXIR BioContainers Implementation study.
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC, part of ELIXIR Spain) is looking for Research software engineer to support BSC's ELIXIR related activities, particularly the back-end development of OpenEBench.
Masaryk University (part of ELIXIR Czech Republic) is looking for Scientific Software Architect to join the CERIT-SC team.
ELIXIR Switzerland is looking for post-doc to work on life science semantic data integration. The post holder will be part of the CALIPHO group, affiliated to the University of Geneva.
ELIXIR Sweden is looking for one or two agile system developers to join the SciLifeLab team at the Uppsala University.
Upcoming events
The ELIXIR TeSS portal has a variety of interesting events and courses organised by the ELIXIR Nodes.
ELIXIR events
6-10 July 2018, Chicago, USA
ISMB 2018 (including ELIXIR Session on 10 July)
8-12 September | Athens, Greece
ECCB 2018 (including ELIXIR Application Track)
12-13 November 2018 | Ljubljana, Slovenia
ELIXIR Board meeting
12-16 November 2018 | Paris, France
ELIXIR Biohackathon