Hub updates
The EOSCLife project kick-started last week in Amsterdam. The kick-off meeting brough together over 120 participants from 13 biomedical research infrastructures.
Updates from Platforms
Open-access online tutorial How to install and deploy Beacon has been launched on the ELIXIR Slovenia eLearning Platform. The tutorial is also registered as TeSS material. The tutorial contains learning materials provided by Beacon developers from ELIXIR Finland and ELIXIR Spain. They contain instructions for Beacon installation and deployment, available as text and video.
Registrations are open for the Advanced Bioinformatics Workshop held together with the CODATA-RDA Research Data Science Summer School at the ICTP in Trieste, Italy, from 19 - 23 August 2019. The workshop will provide an introduction to Machine Learning in omic data analysis, as well as automation approaches using CWL and Docker. The workshop is supported by ELIXIR and being organized by Fotis Psomopoulos (ELIXIR Greece)
Take part in survey by Code for Science & Society around open source research data tools. More information about the project.
Updates from Communities
The Galaxy Community is pleased to announce that registration and abstract submission for the 2019 Galaxy Community Conference (GCC2019) are now open.
Updates from Nodes
Registrations are open for the SIB course "Docker for reproducible computational research", in Bern on 13 May 2019.
de.NBI celebrated the 4444th training course participant in Gatersleben at Spring School Computational Biology Starter.
Registrations are open for two HPC workshops in Utrecht Netherlands, organised by ELIXIR Netherlands and SURFsara: Cluster Computing for Life Sciences on 23-24 April 2019 and Deep Learning for Life Sciences on 9 May 2019.
Join full-day Train-the-Trainer Bootcamp organized by FOSTER, CESSDA, ELIXIR and DANS: Open Science and Research Data Management Train-the-Trainer Bootcamp, Wednesday 17th April 09:00-17:00, The Hague, The Netherlands.
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.
ELIXIR Norway is currently seeking a Data Manager to join ELIXIR Norway and Centre for Digital Life Norway. The deadline to apply is 1 April.
ELIXIR is seeking an experienced Communications Officer to join the ELIXIR Hub team in Hinxton, UK. The deadline to apply is 2 April.
The Instituto Gulbenkian de Cincia (part of ELIXIR Portugal) is welcoming applications for a Research Fellowship within the project "Biodata.pt Infraestrutura Portuguesa de Dados Biolgicos.
ELIXIR Hub is also looking for Project Support Administrator (deadline 24 March) and Administrative Assistant. (deadline 31 March).
Oxford University is looking for Research Software Engineer to join the Oxford e-Research Centre. The successful candidate will work across multi-partner projects to improve FAIRness of datasets, algorithms, software and scholarly articles.
SIB Training and sciCORE (ELIXIR Switzerland groups) are looking for a Bioinformatics Training and Support Specialist to support training and research services.
ELIXIR Belgium is opening a couple of positions, all based in Gent at the Flemish Institute for Biotechnology (VIB):
- ELIXIR Data Steward
- ELIXIR Open Science Community Manager
- ELIXIR Scientific Cloud Coordinator
- Software developer cloud data processing
- ELIXIR Software developer data management tools
- ELIXIR Bioinformatics Trainer
GRIB node of the Spanish National Institute of Bioinformatics (ELIXIR Spain) is looking for Bioinformatics technician in Computational Genomics Group (deadline 1 April).
Upcoming events
The ELIXIR TeSS portal has a variety of interesting events and courses organised by the ELIXIR Nodes.
ELIXIR events
ELIXIR Board meeting
17-20 June 2019 | Lisbon, Portugal
ELIXIR All Hands meeting