Hub updates
Introduction to ELIXIR-EXCELERATE Webinar now available online.
All WP folders and EXCELERATE project documentation are available to 'view' in the EXCELERATE Google drive folder. The EC has opened a further consultation on the Charter for Access to Research Infrastructures, the ELIXIR Hub will submit a response to this as appropriate. If you would like further information please contact andrew.smith@elixir-europe.org.
U.S. NIH launches Request for Information on Science Drivers Requiring Capable Exascale High Performance Computing.
Updates from Nodes
Barend Mons, Head of Node of ELIXIR Netherlands at the Dutch Techcentre for Life Science (DTL), has been appointed Chair of the Commission High Level Expert Group 'European Open Science Cloud'.
Job board
The Biomembranes and Bioenergetics Institute (IBBECNR, Italy) is seeking to appoint a research assistant in bioinformatics (1 year, with the possibility of further extensions)
University of Oxford is seeking to appoint Research Software Engineers to contribute to ELIXIR-UK's infrastructure activities for EXCELERATE.
Platform Updates
The first ELIXIR-GOBLET workshop on e-learning,an outcome of the GOBLET - ELIXIR training strategy, took place on 15-17 September in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The outcome of the workshop will be a White Paper, describing various e-learning approaches and their applications, and recommendations for their use. Slides and other materials from the workshop can be found on the ELIXIR website.
Representatives from BMS RI, CORBEL, EXCELERATE and BBMRI-ADOPT met together with RD Connect and other stakeholders and representatives from the RD community last week in order to begin work towards develop a joined up interface and comprehensive overview of services for the rare disease research community.
Upcoming events
28 September 2015 | Manchester, UK
ELIXIR UK Training workshop: Data Analysis Using IPython
8 October 2015 | Amsterdam, Netherlands
National eScience Symposium: DTL Life Science and eHealth track
8-10 October 2015 | Brno, Czech republic
ELIXIR-EXCELERATE Capacity Building Workshop: EU Structural Funds
8-9 October 2015 | London & 23-24 November 2015 | Manchester, UK
Instructor (Train-the-trainer) workshops on how to train life science researchers in computing
19-20 October 2015 | Uppsala, Sweden
ELIXIR-EXCELERATE Workshop - Capacity Building in Genome Assembly and Annotation
21 October 2015 |
ELIXIR Webinar: Rare Disease test case for ELIXIR Interoperability backbone
2-3 November 2015 | Brussels, Belgium
Data Carpentry Course
8-12 November 2015 | Schwarzenberg, Switzerland
Systems Modeling workshop
17-18 November 2015 | Hinxton, UK
BioMedBridges Final Symposium