Weekly Brief 3 July 2017

Hub updates

Dates for ELIXIR All Hands 2018 announced: the event will be held in Berlin, Germany, 4-7 June 2018. Further information will follow. In the meantime, please hold the dates in your diaries.

A schedule for ELIXIR webinars for 2017 going into 2018 is now available via the ELIXIR website. Webinars are free and open for anyone to join. Recordings from previous webinars are also available.

The next webinar on ELIXIR engagement with industry will take place on Wed 19 July 2017, 15:00 CET. Join the webinar here.

Platforms and Use Cases will be presented at the ELIXIR Special track at ISMB/ECCB 2017 in Prague.

Node updates

The Guide to PHARMACOLOGY announces the first, public, beta-release of the Guide to IMMUNOPHARMACOLOGY (GtoImmuPdb). The ELIXIR Belgium newsletter is out. Read about the expansion of ELIXIR Belgium services portfolio, report from a FAIR data hackathon in Gent and more.

Platform updates

The call text for the next staff exchange tender is now available the RItrain website, The call is open for any Research Infrastructure to take part. Feedback is invited on the emerging information standard for the description of tools that is being adopted by bio.tools. Please join the discussion.

Representatives from ELIXIR Nodes also attended the Galaxy Conference, the web-based platform for data intensive biomedical research, taking place in Montpellier, France last week. A Webinar Demonstrator of the Compute Platform on Human Data Use Case (ELIXIR-EXCELERATE Milestone) is scheduled October 18th, 15.00 CET/14.00 UK.

The ELIXIR community is invited to review and comment on the Update of the ELIXIR technical roadmap before its finalization at the end of July.

Job board

VIB Bioinformatics Core (ELIXIR-Belgium) is seeking an ELIXIR Trainer in Data Science and Bioinformatics.

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

The University Medical Center Groningen (ELIXIR Netherlands) Genomics Coordination Center has openings for a PhD student or postdoc in Data Science in Health Bioinformatics, a Data Manager and a ICT system administrator who want to contribute to FAIR data and Personalized Health using exciting cohort, biobank and genome data with a.o. UMCG, BBMRI, CORBEL, LifeCycle, RD-connect, ELIXIR. The Institute of Biotechnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences has a Postdoctoral Position in Computation Biology available.

SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics is looking for a Chief Operating Officer to strengthen the team of the Vital-IT Competence Centre in Lausanne.

Upcoming events

See the ELIXIR TeSS portal for all events organised by ELIXIR Nodes. ELIXIR events

3-5 July 2017 | Cambridge, UK
EXCELERATE Train-the-Trainer in Clinical bioinformatics and best practices workshop

18-22 September 2017 | Rome, Italy
5th International Summer School/BYOD event: Rare Disease & Orphan Drug Registries

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