Weekly Brief 22 January 2018

Hub updates

The ELIXIR Innovation and SME Forum in Cambridge is taking place this week on Tuesday and Wednesday.

The ELIXIR Webinar on how to access and visualise rare disease genomics data took place last week on Wednesday. The slides are now online the recordings will be available this week.

The next ELIXIR webinar will discuss the requirements in data protection law following the upcoming General Data Protection Regulation implementation. 7 February 2018 at 14.00 CET.

ELIXIR Use Cases have brand new presentations on the ELIXIR website, see at: http://elixir-europe.org/use-cases

ENVRIplus launches the third and final Call for proposals to access European multi-disciplinary environmental research platforms. The deadline is 4 March 2018.

Updates from Platforms

Nick Juty (ELIXIR UK) and Sarala Wimalaratne (ELMB-EBI) will be representing the ELIXIR Interoperability Platform at PIDapalooza, an open festival for persistent identifiers, in Girona, Spain, on 23-24 January.

The EXCELERATE Train the Trainer course on 30-31 January in Lausanne, Switzerland, is still open for registration.

Updates from Nodes

EMBL is launching a webinar series on topics relating to professional development and lifelong learning for people in life sciences. The first webinar with Pierre Meulien, Executive Director, Innovative Medicines Initiative will take place on 2 February 2018 at 13.00 CET.

EMBL-EBI is organising training course Metagenomics Bioinformatics on 17-19 July 2018 in Hinxton. The registration is now open.

Job board

ELIXIR Hub is looking for Administrative Officer to support the operation of ELIXIRs governance structures and provide support to ELIXIR's internal communications. The deadline to apply is 18 February 2018.

ELIXIR Sweden has several openinigs for bioinformaticians at SciLifeLab in Stockholm. Deadline to apply is 13 February 2018.

Oxford e-Research Centre (part of ELIXIR UK) is recruiting two Research Software & Knowledge Engineers to work in Susanna A Sansone's team on infrastructure projects to deliver FAIR data and digital assets.

Upcoming events

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

ELIXIR events


7 February 2018 | Online

ELIXIR Webinar: Requirements in data protection law and the upcoming General Data Protection Regulation implementation