Weekly Brief 23 July 2018

Hub updates

ELIXIR Nodes industry engagement survey

To showcase ELIXIR's efforts in engaging with industry we are planning to write a report highlighting the involvement of ELIXIR with industrial partners which will be released in the end of 2018. This survey acted as a starting point for the report, the results are available on Google Drive. Since the survey does not capture all industry engagement in ELIXIR please feel free to contact Kathi (katharina.lauer@elixir-europe.org) if you have further questions or would like to share your success stories of industry engagement.

EuroScience and ISE petition on increased EU budget for research and innovation

EuroScience and ISE have launched an online petition to push for an increase budget for research and innovation in Horizon Europe. The petition is available at the website and the Twitter hashtag is #DoubleRIEU. For reference, ELIXIRs position paper on Horizon Europe is available on the ELIXIR website.

Updates from Platforms

Recent publications by the Björn Grüning group include:

Bioconda: sustainable and comprehensive software distribution for the life sciences
Practical Computational Reproducibility in the Life Sciences
Community-Driven Data Analysis Training for Biology

The NETTAB 2018 Workshop on Building a FAIR Bioinformatics environment will take place from 22-24 October 2018 in Genova, Italy. The tutorial is organised in collaboration with ELIXIR and the workshop/hackathon by ELIXIR Netherlands and ELIXIR Czech Republic. For more information, please visit the event website.

Updates from Nodes

A research group of ELIXIR Spain is jointly organising a 5-day GATK Workshop on 17 September, 2018 in Seville, Spain. A tutorial on "Disease variant prioritisation tutorial" is to take place on 21 September, 2018. GATK workshops are designed to provide a comprehensive on-boarding experience to new users, as well as access to more advanced understanding for users who arealready familiar with the toolkit. More information is available on the event website.

Job board

The Swedish ELIXIR Node is hiring two bioinformatics experts stationed at Lund University.

 
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC, part of ELIXIR Spain) is looking for Research software engineer to support BSC's ELIXIR related activities, particularly the back-end development of OpenEBench.

Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC, part of ELIXIR Spain) is looking for an INB/ELIXIR-ES Training and Support Officer (RE1). The candidate will contribute to revamp the existing ELIXIR-ES training portfolio and to strengthen the coordination of the Node.

The ELIXIR Galaxy Working Group is looking to hire a full-time web developer. Galaxy's UI will be rewritten in Vue, a progressive framework for building user interfaces. More information is available on the website.

Upcoming events

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

ELIXIR events

8-12 September | Athens, Greece
ECCB 2018 (including ELIXIR Application Track)

1-2 October 2018 | Utrecht, Netherlands
Joint Technical Coordinators & Training Coordinators meeting

15-16 October 2018 | Frankfurt, Germany
ELIXIR Innovation and SME Forum on Industrial Biotechnology

12-13 November 2018 | Ljubljana, Slovenia
ELIXIR Board meeting

11 December 2018 | Brussels, Belgium
ELIXIR 5th Anniversary Event