Weekly Brief 23 May 2016

Hub updates

Video recording and slide from last week's webinar on EMBL-EBI's Ontology Lookup Service are available online. The next ELIXIR webinar on BioMAJ2Galaxy takes place on 15 June 2016 at 14.00 BST.

The design and content of the ELIXIR website is getting an upgrade. Read a short summary of the improvements that have already been completed, and the ones planned for the upcoming weeks.

Where do you get support with ELSI (ethical, legal, societal) questions around data and biosamples? Take part in an online survey organised by CORBEL to help develop the CORBEL ELSI tool. The deadline is 26 June.

CORBEL has launched an Innovation Office to provide support, advice and template documents on topics relating to technology transfer and IPR. The service is open to all ELIXIR partners; contact andrew.smith@elixir-europe.org first if you want to use it.

Node updates

The first ELIXIR Ireland stakeholder meeting took place last week on 17 May 2016 in Dublin, hosted by Systems Biology Ireland.

Updates from platforms

Representatives from ELIXIR UK, ELIXIR Hub, bioCADDIE, BioSchemas and the W3C HCLS Community Profile met with Google last week to discuss how to describe datasets using schema.org. ELIXIR and GOBLET organised a joint workshop on metagenomics training materials re-use, on 7-8 April 2016 at EMBL-EBI in Hinxton, UK. The aim was to collect a set of training materials in metagenomics and define a common approach for their curation. Compute platform is holding face to face meeting in Helsinki on 8 June 2016, hosted by ELIXIR Finland (CSC Finland)

Job board

The ELIXIR Hub is seeking a Grant Support Officer to support pre- and post-award administrative aspects of ELIXIR grants.
The Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) is seeking a system administrator for their prospective ELIXIR Node.
The University of Manchester (ELIXIR-UK) is seeking a Senior Research Software Engineer to co-ordinate identifier and interoperability efforts within the CORBEL project.

The Dutch Techcentre for Life Science (DTL, ELIXIR Netherlands) is seeking two Software Engineers - Linked Data.

Upcoming events

ELIXIR Technical events

13-15 June | Espoo, Finland
ELIXIR-EXCELERATE workshop on variant analysis

30 June - 1 July 2016 | Hinxton, UK
ELIXIR-GA4GH Beacon Security Workshop

8 June | Helsinki, Finland
ELIXIR Compute platform face-to-face meeting

Meetings and Conferences organised by ELIXIR Nodes

25-26 Aug 2016 | Odense, Denmark.
Annual Danish Bioinformatics Conference.

ELIXIR related Workshops and Courses organised by ELIXIR Nodes

23-27 May 2016 | Delft, Netherlands
Course: Algorithms for Biological Networks (4th edition)

24 May 2016 | Geneva, Switzerland
First Steps with UNIX in Life Sciences

29 May - 2 June 2016 | Leukerbad, Switzerland
Spring School Bioinformatics and Population Genomics

7-10 June 2016 | Naples, Italy
RNA-Seq data analysis workshop

16 June 2016 | Lausanne, Switzerland
Practical introduction to SPARQL for biologists and informaticians

16-17 June | Espoo, Finland
Variant analysis with GATK

20-21 June 2016, Lausanne, Switzerland
Software Carpentry Workshop

23-24 June 2016 | Basel, Switzerland
Software Carpentry Workshop