Hub updates
ELIXIR goes global - find out about our activities over the last year to collaborate with organisations and institutions beyond Europe, as well as our updates to the International Strategy in our latest news release.
Last week we hosted a Webinar presenting the outcomes of the ELIXIR Implementation Study 'Increasing Interoperability between ELIXIR Protein Structure and Sequence Resources (CATH, SWISS-MODEL, PDBe and InterPro). We have uploaded the slides of the webinar on our website, slides will be available later this week. Thank you to all the presenters.
The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) have launched their 20th call for Proposals for Project Access. The call enables people to apply for access to high powered computer (Tier-0) systems. This year the applications are also open to Industry. Deadline 29 October 2019.
Updates from Platforms
The Data Platform have released a new paper in our F1000 channel "Understanding life sciences data curation practices via user research".
Registrations are open for the Introductory Linux Tutorial for Life Sciences 4. The tutorial will take place 10-12 December 2019, registration deadline midnight November 8. The course will be delivered simultaneously at 3 locations in Sweden and Slovenia, and will be also available for remote participants:
- Stockholm (Sweden)
- Ume (Sweden)
- Ljubljana (Slovenia)
- remote participants will connect to the course via the ELIXIR Slovenia eLearning Platform (EeLP).
The tutorial is co-organized by NBIS (the Swedish node of ELIXIR) and ELIXIR Slovenia. The registration deadline is November 8 at 12 am.
Updates from Nodes
We would like to welcome Denis Shields as the new Head of Node of ELIXIR Ireland. It has been our pleasure to have worked with Walter Kolch and we wish him all the best for the future!
Job board
All vacancies are also published on the ELIXIR website vacancies section(also including vacancies from industry). Submit vacancies from your Node or industry partners.
Research Associate in the field of clinical and translational medicine informatics
ELIXIR Luxembourg
12 System Developers with Operational Responsibility
NBIS
(Bio-)informatician back-end engineers at the Life Sciences Department
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS)
(Bio-)informatician web front-end developer at the Life Sciences Department
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS)
Project manager
VIB
Upcoming events
The ELIXIR TeSS portal has a variety of interesting events and courses organised by the ELIXIR Nodes.
ELIXIR events
ELIXIR Innovation and SME Forum: Distributed data analysis - the {health} data train
10 - 11 October 2019 | Utrecht, Netherlands
Training for Proteomics - BioInfra.Prot Tool Training
28 October 2019 | Bochum, Germany
Introductory Linux tutorial for life sciences 4
10 - 12 December 2019 | Multiple locations in Sweden and Slovenia and virtually