Hub Updates
The ELIXIR Board met on 13-14 November in Paris for its 2017 Autumn session. The outcomes include approval the Work Plan and Budget for 2018, presentation of themes for the next Scientific Programme 2019-2023, and approval of eight new Implementation studies (more details about them will be available soon).
Read the report from the ELIXIR Innovation and SME forum on Rare diseases and Personalised medicine last week in Paris.
The registration to the next ELIXIR Innovation and SME Forum in Cambridge on 23-24 January 2018 is now open.
All previous editions of this Weekly Brief newsletter are now on the ELIXIR website. You can search the text and filter the newsletters by the time they were sent. To see them, you need to log in to the website via the 'Intranet' link. Then go to the 'News' section and in the side menu you will see a link for 'Weekly Briefs'. The direct link is: https://www.elixir-europe.org/news/weekly-briefs. We will soon do the same with the Friday email updates for ELIXIR Heads of Nodes and Key Contributors.
Updates from Platforms
A revision of biotoolsSchema, the software description model of bio.tools, is underway to implement community-requested features gathered over the last year. It will result in groundbreaking changes to the bio.tools API. If you have software dependencies, then please get in touch shortly with Jon Ison via registry-support@elixir-dk.org.
Updates from Nodes
EMBL-EBI has opened registration for its Networks & Pathways training course on 14-18 May 2018 in Hinxton, UK.
Job board
The ELIXIR Hub is recruiting a Human Data Technical Coordinator in Hinxton, UK, to provide technical project management and service coordination.
ELIXIR UK seeks a Training Impact Co-ordinator based at The Bioinformatics Training Facility, University of Cambridge. The post-holder will develop a comprehensive system of bioinformatics training metrics/key performance indicators across ELIXIR and EXCELERATE.
There are two internship positions open at the ELIXIR Hub: the Bioschemas internship and the ELIXIR Beacons internship.
Upcoming events
The ELIXIR TeSS portal has a variety of stimulating events and courses organised by the ELIXIR Nodes.
ELIXIR events
13 November 2017 | Online
ELIXIR Webinar: Transfer of large volume, electronic, confidential, human data
13-14 November 2017 | Paris, France
ELIXIR Board meeting
14-15 November 2017 | Paris, France
ELIXIR Innovation and SME Forum: Data Driven Innovation in Rare Diseases and Personalised Medicine
1-2 February 2017 | Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, UK
ELIXIR Scientific Advisory Board meeting
24-25 April 2018 | Tel Aviv
ELIXIR Board meeting
4-7 June 2018 | Berlin, Germany
ELIXIR All Hands meeting
12-13 November 2018 | Ljubljana, Slovenia
ELIXIR Board meeting