Weekly Brief, 20 May 2019

Updates from Platforms

A new report from the ELIXIR RDA group from the 13th RDA Plenary Meeting in Philadelphia is now available via the ELIXIR Intranet. We would like to acknowledge the members of ELIXIR's RDA Group, who actively represent ELIXIR in RDA meetings! The group can be contacted via: rda-contact@elixir-europe.org.

Updates from Nodes

Registration is open for the two ELIXIR-DE courses in Kiel:
- Introduction to genome-wide association studies (GWAS)
- Eukaryote genome annotation workshop

Applications open for ELIXIR-SE (NBIS) courses in
- Epigenomics data analysis (26 - 30 August, Stockholm, Sweden)
- Omics Integration and Systems Biology (9 - 12 September, Stockholm, Sweden)
- Python programming with applications to bioinformatics, Uppsala or
Python programming with applications to bioinformatics, Ume (7 - 11 October, Uppsala and Ume, Sweden)

ELIXIR-CH is delighted to announce that registrations are open for the next ELIXIR-EXCELERATE Data Carpentry with R (Genomics curriculum) workshop, taking place on 1-2 July 2019 in Zurich. The course will address core concepts on Unix, Data wrangling, Data Analysis and Visualization in R, and it is aimed at researchers with no previous knowledge of the tools - no experience required or expected.

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.

The FAIRsharing team at the University of Oxford is looking for Research Software Engineer - Front End Developer.

ELIXIR Luxembourg is looking for Research Associate in the field of clinical and translational medicine informatics.

Upcoming events

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

ELIXIR events