Hub updates
ELIXIR and SIB (ELIXIR Switzerland) are the main partners of the 6th Plenary meeting of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health, 3-5 October 2018, Basel, Switzerland. The registration is now open!
ELIXIR published a new report to highlight the importance of public bioinformatics data to SMEs.
Nicola Kay's last day at ELIXIR was last week on Wednesday. We thank Nicola for her hard work and dedication and wish her all the best in the future. Nicola's replacement Joanna Wingender will start at the ELIXIR Hub on the 16 April 2018; in the meantime, you can contact Andy for any administrative or external relations matters (andy.smith@elixir-europe.org).
Katharina Lauer is joining ELIXIR Hub today as ELIXIR Industry Officer, she can be reached at katharina.lauer@elixir-europe.org.
Register and submit your posters and flash talks for the ELIXIR All Hands in Berlin, 4-7June 2018. The deadline is in one week, on 4 April!
Next week is the Easter Monday, the ELIXIR Weekly Brief will be sent on Tuesday 2 April. Happy Easter!
ELIXIR published a new report to highlight the importance of public bioinformatics data to SMEs.
Nicola Kay's last day at ELIXIR was last week on Wednesday. We thank Nicola for her hard work and dedication and wish her all the best in the future. Nicola's replacement Joanna Wingender will start at the ELIXIR Hub on the 16 April 2018; in the meantime, you can contact Andy for any administrative or external relations matters (andy.smith@elixir-europe.org).
Katharina Lauer is joining ELIXIR Hub today as ELIXIR Industry Officer, she can be reached at katharina.lauer@elixir-europe.org.
Register and submit your posters and flash talks for the ELIXIR All Hands in Berlin, 4-7June 2018. The deadline is in one week, on 4 April!
Next week is the Easter Monday, the ELIXIR Weekly Brief will be sent on Tuesday 2 April. Happy Easter!
Updates from Platforms
The ELIXIR Core Data Resources and ELIXIR Recommended Deposition Archives were presented at the 11th Plenary meeting of the Research Data Alliance last week, as part of the joint meeting of the IG ELIXIR Bridging Force, IG Biodiversity Data Integration, and WG FAIRSharing.
FAIRSharing was also presented at the Research Data Alliance plenary, in the same meeting. BioSchemas was presented as part of the Metadata Interest Group meeting.
You can now register for the Bio-IT World Conference and Expo on 15-17 May 2018 in Boston, USA. Chris Evelo will be presenting ELIXIR; you can get a 25 % discount as speaker guests.
You can now register for the Bio-IT World Conference and Expo on 15-17 May 2018 in Boston, USA. Chris Evelo will be presenting ELIXIR; you can get a 25 % discount as speaker guests.
Registration open for the first ELIXIR Software Carpentry Workshop on 28-29 March 2018 in Paris at the Pasteur Institut.
Still free seats available for the de.NBI workshop Tools for systems biology, modeling and data exchange: COPASI, CellNetAnalyzer, SABIO-RK, SEEK at MPI Magdeburg, Germany, 24-26 April 2018
Application open for the 4th de.NBI/ELIXIR-DE summer school Riding the Data Life Cycle at BRICS Braunschweig, Germany, 3-7 September 2018
Registration still open for the workshop Applying bioinformatics and data science competency frameworks to ELIXIR Training, 5-6 April 2018, Amsterdam with an additional seminar Designing effective instruction and interpretable assessment by Allegra Via (ELIXIR-Italy) at 4 April 2018
Last chance to register for the BioExcel Summer School on Biomolecular Simulations in Pula, Italy (17-22 June 2018). Lectures and hands-on sessions on MD simulations, Docking, QM/MM, Free energy calculations, and Advanced sampling methods (metadynamics).
RITrain has three knowledge/staff exchange events open to applicants from European Research Infrastructures. An overview of the calls for Knowledge/Staff Exchanges.
Still free seats available for the de.NBI workshop Tools for systems biology, modeling and data exchange: COPASI, CellNetAnalyzer, SABIO-RK, SEEK at MPI Magdeburg, Germany, 24-26 April 2018
Application open for the 4th de.NBI/ELIXIR-DE summer school Riding the Data Life Cycle at BRICS Braunschweig, Germany, 3-7 September 2018
Registration still open for the workshop Applying bioinformatics and data science competency frameworks to ELIXIR Training, 5-6 April 2018, Amsterdam with an additional seminar Designing effective instruction and interpretable assessment by Allegra Via (ELIXIR-Italy) at 4 April 2018
Last chance to register for the BioExcel Summer School on Biomolecular Simulations in Pula, Italy (17-22 June 2018). Lectures and hands-on sessions on MD simulations, Docking, QM/MM, Free energy calculations, and Advanced sampling methods (metadynamics).
RITrain has three knowledge/staff exchange events open to applicants from European Research Infrastructures. An overview of the calls for Knowledge/Staff Exchanges.
GOBLET is working with F1000 Rto become the champion of the F1000 Bioinformatics Training and Education collection. If there are Education & Training related F1000R articles, reports, white papers, posters, slides etc. that you are aware of and would like to be flagged for inclusion in this collection, please get in touch: info@mygoblet.org.
Updates from Use Cases
The Galaxy Community meeting and the Galaxy User Conference took place on 14-16 March in Freiburg. Report and photos from the event are online (Day 1 and Day 2). The conference also officially launched a new usegalaxy.eu server.
The 3rd European Conference on Translational Bioinformatics (ECTB) will take place in Barcelona on 16-17 April 2018. Register is still open!
You can also register for the conference The Impact of Genomics Data on Health: the Role of the European Genome-phenome Archive on 13 April 2018 in Barcelona. The deadline is on 31 March!
You can also register for the conference The Impact of Genomics Data on Health: the Role of the European Genome-phenome Archive on 13 April 2018 in Barcelona. The deadline is on 31 March!
Job board
ELIXIR Belgium is looking for Data Scientist to support integration of ELIXIR resources with its plant phenotyping software platform.
Upcoming events
The ELIXIR TeSS portal has a variety of interesting events and courses organised by the ELIXIR Nodes.
ELIXIR events
11 April 2018
ELIXIR Webinar: Proteome Implementation Study
17 April 2018
CORBEL Webinar: Single sign-on for Life Science services
24-25 April 2018 | Tel Aviv
ELIXIR Board meeting
4-7 June 2018 | Berlin, Germany
ELIXIR All Hands meeting, Deadline for registration: 4 April 2018!
12-13 November 2018 | Ljubljana, Slovenia
ELIXIR Board meeting
ELIXIR Webinar: Proteome Implementation Study
17 April 2018
CORBEL Webinar: Single sign-on for Life Science services
24-25 April 2018 | Tel Aviv
ELIXIR Board meeting
4-7 June 2018 | Berlin, Germany
ELIXIR All Hands meeting, Deadline for registration: 4 April 2018!
12-13 November 2018 | Ljubljana, Slovenia
ELIXIR Board meeting