Weekly Brief 29 October 2018

Hub Updates

A new Training Platform page has been published on the ELIXIR website. The page includes a more detailed overview of the Platform's activities and who is responsible for them. The revamped page now follows a similar format to the other Platform pages.

Updates from Platforms

ELIXIR was very much in evidence at the NETTAB 2018 meeting on the theme of "Building a FAIR Bioinformatics environment", with the Data, Interoperability and Training Platforms represented:

For the Data Platform, Christine Durinx gave a Keynote Lecture on "ELIXIR Core Data Resources, long-term sustainability and FAIR".

For the Interoperability Platform, Carole Goble gave a presentation on FAIRDOM for data management at the Norwegian Digital Life Initiative, Leyla Garcia also presented Bioschemas for FAIR Ecosystem.

For the Training Platform, Patricia Palagi presented the platform activities to promote FAIRness principles, and the first reflections of the ELIXIR FAIR Training Working Group on teaching FAIR principles and on how to make training materials FAIR.

Carole Goble, Christine Durinx, Frederik Coppens and Patricia Palagi were panelists in the Neglected topics, Obstacles and Distractions of FAIR panel discussion.

Other talks by ELIXIR members included Rafael Jimenez (ELIXIR Hub) on FAIR data and EOSC, Frederik Coppens (ELIXIR Belgium) on FAIR data, tools and workflows from user perspective, Rob Hooft (ELIXIR Netherlands) on a FAIR approach to Research Data Stewardship and Data Stewardship Planning, and Marco Roos (ELIXIR Netherlands) on FAIR data in the rare disease community.

All presentations will soon be also available on the NETTAB website.

Updates from Communities

The closing date for the Request For Proposals for the Community-Led Implementation Studies is at midnight (GMT) this Wednesday 31 October. More information.

Updates from Nodes

Registrations are open for the Single Cell Data Analysis School. The workshop will take place at Station Biologique de Roscoff, France 3-8 February 2019.

The programme of SIB Training Courses for 2019 is now online. It already includes over 30 scheduled events, and many more are yet to come. The topics covered span areas such as NGS and other omics data analysis, single-cell, statistics, programming, machine learning, and several SIB resources. Subscribe to the courses' mailing-list to be informed when registrations opens.

Registration is open for the SIB/ CUSO-Staromics course on Metablomics for Life and Health Scientists, in Lausanne on 3-4 December 2018. The course will provide an overview of handling metabolomics data (from raw data to biological knowledge) using bioinformatics tools.

VIB (ELIXIR Belgium) is organising An introduction to NGS using Galaxy course, on 6 November in Gent

Job board

The Centre for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics (CMBI) is currently looking for an Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics for Personalized Medicine at Radboudumc in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

CNAG-CRG (part of ELIXIR Spain) is looking for Communications and data helpdesk coordinator to join the Solve-RD H2020 project.

ELIXIR France (IFB) is looking to hire a candidate to work on Bioinformatics resource interoperability development.

ELIXIR Sweden is looking for one or two system developers with operational responsibility, based at Uppsala University.

Upcoming events

The ELIXIR TeSS portal has a variety of interesting events and courses organised by the ELIXIR Nodes.

ELIXIR events