Hub updates
There will be an ELIXIR Webinar led by John Hancock describing the application process for the Community-led Implementation Studies RFP on Wednesday, 5 September at 15:00 CEST/14:00 WEST. The call for proposals can be found on Google Drive.
Updates from Platforms
ECCB 2018 in Athens will host an ELIXIR Workshop Implementation of DMPs and Data Stewardship in practice on Tuesday 11 September at 17:30-19:00. The workshop is organized by ELIXIR-LU, ELIXIR-SI and ELIXIR-NL and is part of the ELIXIR Implementations Study about Data stewardship in ELIXIR.
Updates from Communities
ELIXIR - together with SIB are the partners and co-hosts of the 6th GA4GH Plenary meeting in Basel, Switzerland on 3 October, 2018, and will have a dedicated session during the meeting. Additionally there will be an ELIXIR booth within the exhibit hall. A key objective for this meeting is to map ELIXIR involvement in GA4GH related activities. Look forward to seeing you there.
Registration is open for Metabolomics Data Processing and Data Analysis, an online SPOC (Small Private Online Course) running from 8 October until 2 November 2018. This course will explore the tools and approaches used to process and analyse metabolomics data, investigate the challenges typically encountered and provide solutions to overcome them. Organised by the University of Birmingham (ELIXIR UK).
Updates from Nodes
The 1st de.NBI Cloud User Meeting on 29-31 October 2018 is your chance of meeting users, developers and administrators using the de.NBI Cloud. The event at the Bielefeld University will present life science projects hosted in the de.NBI Cloud and the state-of-the-art cloud computing technologies like Spark, Docker and Kubernetes.
Registration is open for the ELIXIR Netherlands Galaxy Course Bioinformatics for Translational Medicine using Galaxy: see it, do it, teach it!, 17-19 October 2018 in Amsterdam.
Registrations are open to life scientists who want to learn Computing skills for reproducible research: Software Carpentry 24-25 October, Ghent Belgium.
Job board
ELIXIR is offering an internship position relating to Beacon. The candidate will support the ELIXIR Beacon implementation study and the Beacon activities driven by the Human Genomics and Translational Data Services at the ELIXIR Hub.
The DTL - Dutch Techcentre for Life Sciences is looking for a Data Steward to aid in the establishing of a collective approach to data stewardship in the Netherlands.
The SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics Data Coordination Centre (DCC) and BioMedIT in Basel (part of ELIXIR Switzerland) is looking for a Director, Data Coordination Centre and Personalized Health Informatics Group
The SIB Text Mining group in Geneva (part of ELIXIR Switzerland) is looking for three associate researchers.
The Swedish ELIXIR Node is hiring two bioinformatics experts stationed at Lund University.
The Galaxy team at the University of Freiburg (part of ELIXIR Germany) is looking for a full time JavaScript developer to support the development of the Galaxy Europe instance.
Upcoming events
The ELIXIR TeSS portal has a variety of interesting events and courses organised by the ELIXIR Nodes.
ELIXIR events
ECCB 2018 (including ELIXIR Application Track)
1-2 October 2018 | Utrecht, Netherlands
Joint Technical Coordinators & Training Coordinators meeting
15-16 October 2018 | Frankfurt, Germany
ELIXIR Innovation and SME Forum on Industrial Biotechnology
12-13 November 2018 | Ljubljana, Slovenia
ELIXIR Board meeting
11 December 2018 | Brussels, Belgium
ELIXIR 5th Anniversary Event
12 December | Brussels, Belgium
HoN meeting