Weekly Brief 22 October 2018

Hub updates

The recording and slides from the ELIXIR September webinar on ELIXIR Slovenia eLearning Platform are now online.

Updates from Communities

ELIXIR and GA4GH have released the first genomic data interoperability standard from the GA4GH 2018 Strategic Roadmap. The Beacon API v1 allows users to determine the presence or absence of a particular allele in a dataset, without disclosing any further data differentiating the individuals it contains.

You can still register for the BioData world congress in Basel, Switzerland on 28-29 November 2018. Register for free, using this form! ELIXIR will have two presentations (by Serena Scollen and David Lloyd), and an exhibition booth.

Updates from Nodes

EMBL-EBI is organising training course Introduction to RNA-Seq and Functional Interpretation on 26-29 March 2019 in Hinxton, UK. Registration is now open!

Read the latest news from ELIXIR Switzerland / SIB in the October newsletter.

Registrations are open of the SIB course on Data Visualization with Cytoscape, in Lausanne, on 1 November 2018. This workshop will directly follow a 3-day course about Introduction to Network Analysis and we recommend to attend both. It will focus on understanding sources of biological data and how to approach visualizing the data.

There are still free places for the SIB course on Ligand-protein docking, and computer-aided drug design, in Basel, Switzerland, on 27-28 November 2018.

Booking now open for the course Bioinformatics for Biologists: An introduction to programming, analysis, and reproducibility in Cambridge, United Kingdom, on 3-7 December 2018. The course will cover introduction to R, version control, statistical analyses, data management and reproducibility.

Registrations are open for the RNA Seq Data Analysis by using the Galaxy platform in Debrecen, Hungary, on 17-18 November. The course is free!

Join us in Ghent, Belgium, for the workshop NGS introduction using Galaxy on 6 November 2018. The registration is free.

Job board

The Centre for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics (CMBI) is currently looking for an Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics for Personalized Medicine at Radboudumc in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

CNAG-CRG (part of ELIXIR Spain) is looking for Communications and data helpdesk coordinator to join the Solve-RD H2020 project.

ELIXIR France (IFB) is looking to hire a candidate to work on Bioinformatics resource interoperability development.

ELIXIR Sweden is looking for one or two system developers with operational responsibility, based at Uppsala University.

ELIXIR is offering an internship position relating to Beacon. The candidate will support the ELIXIR Beacon implementation study and the Beacon activities driven by the Human Genomics and Translational Data Services at the ELIXIR Hub.

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

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

3DBioinfo meeting: Launch Meeting for a proposed ELIXIR Community in Structural Bioinformatics