Hub updates
The deadline to submit your papers and proposals for the ELIXIR Application track at ECCB 2016 has been extended to 18 April 2016. The ELIXIR track will showcase the latest outputs and services from across ELIXIR.
Nodes interested in having an exhibition booth at ECCB2016 in the 'ELIXIR corner' should contact femke.francissen@dtls.nl.
Node updates
EMBL-EBI has expanded its EMPIAR data service to accommodate new high-resolution imaging modalities such as Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM)
Platform updates
ELIXIR UK and FAIRDOM jointly hosted an ELIXIR-EXCELERATE Samples Club BYOD workshop on 21-23 March 2016 in Manchester, UK. Registration is now open for the next Technical Hackathon: Tools, Workflows and Workbenches taking place in Paris, France,18-20 May 2016.
ELIXIR Slovenia is organising ELIXIR Registry hackathon on 8 April 2016 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, to register Slovenian bioinformatics resources to the ELIXIR Tools and Service Registry (bio.tools). Registration is now open.
Job board
The ELIXIR Hub is seeking an ELIXIR Industry and International Officer and a ELIXIR Technical Lead (Data and Interoperability) to join the team at Hinxton.
The Dutch Techcentre for Life Science (DTL, ELIXIR Netherlands) is seeking two Software Engineers - Linked Data.
The Bioinformatics Training Facility of the School of Biological Sciences, University of Cambridge (UoC) is looking for a Training Impact Co-ordinator.
SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics is seeking a Communications Manager, project manager and Clinical Bioinformatics Project Manager to join their team.
Applications are invited for a research assistant position at the Biology Centre ASCR (Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic), part of ELIXIR CZ.
Upcoming events
4-8 April 2016 | Lausanne, Switzerland
Chip-seq data analysis: from quality check to motif discovery and more - An introduction to the tools and databases of the EPD team
6-7 April 2016 | Heidelberg, Germany
Galaxy DevOps workshop to train people in deployment strategies of Galaxy and Galaxy tools
7-8 April 2016 | Hinxton, UK
GOBLET/ELIXIR hackaton for metagenomics training materials re-use
8 April 2016 | Ljubljana, Slovenia
ELIXIR Slovenia Registry hackathon
10-14 April 2016 | Geneva, Switzerland
Biocuration 2016
12-14 April 2016 | Lausanne, Switzerland
Introduction to Markov models
19-20 April 2016 | Lunteren, The Netherlands
Dutch Bioinformatics & Systems Biology conference (BioSB 2016)
25-27 April 2016 | Lausanne, Switzerland
Exploring common and rare disease genetics with GWAS and NGS
26-27 April 2016 | Copenhagen, Denmark
1st European Conference for Translational Bioinformatics
2-5 May 2016 | Naples, Italy
NGS for evolutionary biologists: from basic scripting to variant calling
12-13 May 2016 | Oslo, Norway
ELIXIR Innovation and SME Forum: Data-driven innovation in the aquaculture and marine industries
18-20 May 2016 | Paris, France
Technical Hackathon: Tools, Workflows and Workbenches
23-23 May 2016 | Espoo, Finland
Using clouds and VMs in bioinformatics training
29 May - 2 June 2016 | Leukerbad, Switzerland
Spring School Bioinformatics and Population Genomics
25-26 Aug 2016 | Odense, Denmark.
Annual Danish Bioinformatics Conference.