Weekly Brief 29 August 2017

Hub updates

The European Open Science Cloud Pilot project (EOSCPilot) has opened its second call for Science Demonstrators.

EOSCPilot is also holding a Service Provider Workshop on 13-15 September 2017 in Pisa, Italy.

The recording and the slides from the latest ELIXIR webinar on Omics Discovery Index (OmicsDI), which aggregates multiple omics repositories, including Proteomics, Metabolomics and Genomics, are now available online. The next webinar will take place on 20 September and will present the ELIXIR Data Platform. Add it to your calendar.

Updates from Platforms

The ELIXIR Training Platform presents the ELIXIR-EXCELERATE Train-the-Trainer pilot programme in an article published in the ELIXIR F1000R channel.

Updates from Nodes

ELIXIR-Italy and ELIXIR-EXCELERATE will hold a Train the Trainer (TtT) event alongside Best Practices for RNA-Seq analysis at University of Salerno, Fisciano (SA), Italy on 27-29 September, 2017

ELIXIR Belgium and ELIXIR Netherlands organised BYOD hackathon on BrAPI in Gent on 30 May to 1 June 2017. The summary report is now available online.

Job board

DTU (ELIXIR Denmark) is seeking a database architect and scientific computing programmer.

EMBL-EBI is looking for Biocurator to join the Data Coordination and Archiving Team. The post holder will contribute to EU projects EMBRIC and ENVRI+ where EMBL-EBI represents ELIXIR.

Upcoming events

The ELIXIR TeSS portal has a wide variety of inspirational events and courses organised by the ELIXIR Nodes. ELIXIR events
18-22 September 2017 | Rome, Italy
5th International Summer School/BYOD event: Rare Disease & Orphan Drug Registries

27-29 September, 2017| Fisciano, Italy
ELIXIR-EXCELERATE Train the Trainer course

9-10 October 2017 | Brussels, Belgium
ELIXIR Innovation and SME Forum: Data-driven innovation in food, nutrition and the microbiome

4-7 June 2018 | Berlin, Germany
ELIXIR All Hands meeting