Weekly Brief 20 August 2018

Hub updates

Updates from Platforms

ELIXIR and The Carpentries initiative (Software Carpentry and Data Carpentry), have extended their collaboration in organising and delivering training in ELIXIR Nodes. The Carpentries will organise close to 20 Software and Data Carpentry training workshops across ELIXIR Nodes, and two Instructor Training workshops to train a number of specialised instructors.

ELIXIR Training has contributed to the CODATA-RDA Research Data Science Summer school in Trieste (6-17 Aug 2018) by providing two instructors (Paula Andrea Martinez from ELIXIR Belgium and Marko Vidak from ELIXIR Slovenia). Furthermore, from 20-24 Aug 2018 Fotis Psomopoulos from ELIXIR Greece is organizing the flanking Advanced Bioinformatics workshop about Machine Learning applications (pdf). Both these activities are part of the ELIXIR Implementation Study on Learning Paths.

The Training Platform is organising a workshop Implementation of DMPs and Data Stewardship in practice at ECCB 2018 in Athens on Tuesday 11 September at 17:30-19:00. This is organized by ELIXIR Luxembourg, ELIXIR SIovenia and ELIXIR Netherlands, and is part of the ELIXIR Implementations Study about Data stewardship in ELIXIR.

Updates from Nodes

Job board

The SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics Data Coordination Centre (DCC) and BioMedIT in Basel (part of ELIXIR Switzerland) is looking for a Director, Data Coordination Centre and Personalized Health Informatics Group

The SIB Text Mining group in Geneva (part of ELIXIR Switzerland) is looking for three associate researchers.

The Swedish ELIXIR Node is hiring two bioinformatics experts stationed at Lund University.

Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC, part of ELIXIR Spain) is looking for an INB/ELIXIR-ES Training and Support Officer (RE1). The candidate will contribute to revamp the existing ELIXIR-ES training portfolio and to strengthen the coordination of the Node.

The Galaxy team at the University of Freiburg (part of ELIXIR Germany) is looking for a full time JavaScript developer to support the development of the Galaxy Europe instance.

Upcoming events

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

ELIXIR events