Hub updates
Many thanks to all who came to the All Hands meeting in Lisbon! The slides will shortly be available on the F1000R channel and photos will be online on ELIXIR Flickr. If you haven't done so yet, please fill in a short feedback survey to help us make the next All Hands meeting even better.
The final review of the EXCELERATE project took place during the All Hands. The review went really well, with positive feedback from reviewers and the European Commission. Thanks to all individuals involved in EXCELERATE for your amazing contributions to the project - we will share the formal feedback from the EC when we receive this.
Updates from Platforms
The ELIXIR Interoperability Platform will be holding a teleconference on Friday 31 July from 13.00 to 14.00 CEST. It is designed as an "Ask Us Anything session, with the aim to facilitate interactions between the EIP Platform and the rest of ELIXIR.
All are invited to attend. Please mark your calendars, further details will follow.
Updates from Communities
You can still register for the Galaxy Community Conference in Freiburg, Germany, on 1-6 July 2019. The deadline for poster & demo submissions is today!
Registration remains open for the 15th International Symposium on Integrative Bioinformatics from 18-20 September 2019, in Paris, France. The deadline for abstract submission to present a talk is 31 July.
Updates from Nodes
The SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics is launching the in silico online talks to give you insights into recent papers, tutorials, a broad range of topics, starting with a new tool to mine viral genomes and improve clinical diagnostics. To receive notifications about new recordings directly in your mailbox, leave us your email!
de.NBI (ELIXIR Germany) is organising Summer school 2019 on (Bio)Data Science, on 2-6 September 2019 in Gatersleben
The Sternberg group at Imperial College are pleased to announce the following web-based resources to model the impact of missense variants on protein structures.
- PhyreRisk maps genetic variants to experimental and predicted protein structures.
- Missense3D provides a stereochemical report (e.g. loss of an H-bond) on the effect of a missense variant on experimental and predicted protein structures.
4th European Conference on Translational Bioinformatics: Biomedical Big Data Supporting Precision Medicine (ECTB2019) is taking place in Granada, Spain, on 11-12 of November 2019. The abstract and paper submissions are now open. The conference is organised in collaboration with the University of Granada, Fundacin Progreso y Salud, and the Spanish National Bioinformatics Institute (ELIXIR Spain).
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.
The Research Program on Biomedical Informatics (GRIB, UPF-IMIM, part of ELIXIR Spain) is looking for Bioinformatics technician in Computational Genomics Group and Web application developer at the PharmacoInformatics Group.
University of Bergen (part of ELIXIR Norway) is hiring Senior engineer / chief engineer (System Developer) to join the Department of Informatics.
CNAG-CRG (part of ELIXIR Spain) is hiring Bioinformatician for The Single Cell Genomics team.
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (part of ELIXIR Spain) is looking for (bio-)informatician web front-end developer and back-end engineers.
Orphanet (part of ELIXIR France) is recruiting a project and data manager to work on ontological modelisation project on rare diseases cases.
VIB (part of ELIXIR Belgium) is looking for Cloud software developer to work on the PLAZA platform.
Upcoming events
The ELIXIR TeSS portal has a variety of interesting events and courses organised by the ELIXIR Nodes.
ELIXIR events
Biohackathon Europe