Hub updates
The ELIXIR Hub is a funded partner in the RI-PATHS (Research Infrastructure imPact Assessment paTHways) project. The project will run until 2020 and is funded by the European Union under Horizon 2020. Working with evaluation experts, the project aims to develop a common methodology for assessing the socio-economic impact of research infrastructure. ELIXIR is one of four case studies, along with ALBA, DESY, and CERN. More information can be found in the first newsletter and on twitter.
Contact Corinne Martin (corinne.martin@elixir-europe.org) if you wish to discuss further. You may also join the Socio-Economic Impact Intranet group if you wish to be kept informed of progress, and/or if this is an area of interest to you and your Node.
Updates from Platforms
A team of reseearchers from ELIXIR Netherlands, ELIXIR UK and from the OpenRiskNet project used BioSchemas to automatically pull toxicology-related training materials from the eNanoMapper project into the European training portal TeSS.
Updates from Nodes
ELIXIR Netherlands will coordinate a new Implementation Study that aims to deliver a user-friendly FAIR Data management & analysis application as an EU cloud service: myFAIR Cloud Analysis. The service will be executed using the advanced INDIGO PaaS services on top of any ELIXIR Compute Platform cloud resource.
The ELIXIR Implementation Study MolData2 led by ELIXIR Netherlands has recently been completed. It investigated the current status of genotype-phenotype databases for rare diseases and developed tools to tackle some of the most urgent problems.
Applications are open for the ELIXIR Italy Advanced Docker Course on 26-27 September 2018 at University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy.
Job board
The Swedish ELIXIR Node is hiring two bioinformatics experts stationed at Lund University.
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC, part of ELIXIR Spain) is looking for Research software engineer to support BSC's ELIXIR related activities, particularly the back-end development of OpenEBench.
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC, part of ELIXIR Spain) is looking for an INB/ELIXIR-ES Training and Support Officer (RE1). The candidate will contribute to revamp the existing ELIXIR-ES training portfolio and to strengthen the coordination of the Node.
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