Hub updates
ELIXIR and the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health have agreed on a Collaboration Strategy to guide their collaboration in developing and promoting standards and frameworks for the responsible sharing and reuse of genomics data.
EMBRC is launching a funding call for training organisers to provide training organisers a financial support to organise, host and participate in knowledge exchange, best practice and technology transfer in marine biotechnology & aquaculture innovation. The deadline is 7 December 2017.
The INFRAFRONTIER call is now open. The main objective is to facilitate access to the wider biomedical research community to deliver novel mouse lines that will advance knowledge of human disease. The deadline is 20 December 2017.
Updates from Platforms
The Training Platform are running the following events:
- Introduction to Linux in Stockholm and Umeå in Sweden, Ljubljana in Slovenia and online on 13-15 February 2018
- Data processing with R tidyverse in Luxembourg on 19-22 February 2018
Updates from Nodes
The new de.NBI Quarterly Newsletter, Edition November 2017, has been published. ELIXIR Italy is organising a training course Linux shell scripting for high-throughput biological data processing on supercomputers, on 16-17 January 2018 in Rome, Italy.
Job board
ELIXIR Norway are advertising a newly established and permanent Administrative Coordinator position at the Department of Informatics within the Computational Biology Unit (CBU), University of Bergen.
ELIXIR UK seeks a Training Impact Co-ordinator based at The Bioinformatics Training Facility, University of Cambridge. The post-holder will develop a comprehensive system of bioinformatics training metrics/key performance indicators across ELIXIR and EXCELERATE.
There are two internship positions open at the ELIXIR Hub: the Bioschemas internship and the ELIXIR Beacons internship.
Upcoming events
The ELIXIR TeSS portal has a variety of interesting events and courses organised by the ELIXIR Nodes.
ELIXIR events
6 December 2017 | Online
ELIXIR Webinar: Process for the selection of ELIXIR Core Data Resources
20 December 2017 | Online
ELIXIR Webinar: Improvements to Ensembl
1-2 February 2017 | Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, UK
ELIXIR Scientific Advisory Board meeting
24-25 April 2018 | Tel Aviv
ELIXIR Board meeting
4-7 June 2018 | Berlin, Germany
ELIXIR All Hands meeting
12-13 November 2018 | Ljubljana, Slovenia
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