Hub updates
Thank you for your suggestions for Flashtalks and Workshop ideas for the ELIXIR All Hands 2017 taking place 21-23 March in Rome. We will now sift through the ideas and come back to you in order for a prioritisation excercise to take place.
Niklas Blomberg presented ELIXIR at the tranSMART Foundation 2016 Annual Meeting in San Diego, USA; Serena Scollen presented ELIXIR Human Data activities at the BioData World Congress, last week in Hinxton, UK
NIH BD2K is running a series of web seminars on data science.
Speakers include Pascal Gaudet, ELIXIR Switzerland and Susanna-Assunta Sansone, ELIXIR UK. Visit the NiH BD2K website for further information.
Training and Technical Coordinators
ELIXIR Training and Technical Coordinators held a joint meeting, collocated with the NETTAB 2016 workshop in Rome. A report, including presentation slides from the meeting will be available soon.
The ELIXIR Training Coordinators and Technical Coordinators also had their separate meetings in Rome last week. The flash talks from the Training Coordinators' meeting are already available online. Report from the Technical Coordinators Group will be online soon.
Updates from Nodes
ELIXIR Netherlands (DTL) is an organising partner of Health-RI Conference to take place on 1 December 2016 in Amersfoort, the Netherlands. You can still register. EMBL-EBI, in association with CORBEL and KU Leuven, is organising Data Visualisation training course on 30 January - 3 February 2017 in Hinxton, UK. The application deadline is 11 November 2016. ELIXIR Italy hosted Combined CHARME - EMBnet and NETTAB 2016 Workshop, last week in Rome. Among the speakers were Chris Evelo, Barend Mons and Susanna A. Sansone. The workshop was preceded by GOBLET/ELIXIR-ITA 'Train-the-trainer' Tutorial and Bioschema - Bio.tools Hacktahon.
Job board
Oslo University Hospital (ELIXIR-Norway) is seeking a Bioinformatician/Head Engineer to join their team.
SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (ELIXIR Switzerland) is seeking a Head of Communications.
Leiden University Medical Centre (ELIXIR- Netherlands) currently has various positions available in the area of bioinformatics.
ELIXIR France is seeking a post doc bioinformatician in genome assembly and annotation.
Upcoming events
ELIXIR Webinars
14 November 2016 15:00 CETSecond webinar on the process for the selection of ELIXIR Core Data Resources
16 November 2016 15:00 CETELIXIR Webinar: ELIXIR Technical Services Roadmap
30 November 2016 15:00 CET
ELIXIR Webinar: Danish cloud - computerome
Recordings from previous webinars can be found via the ELIXIR website.
ELIXIR related Workshops and Courses organised by ELIXIR Nodes
BYOD event on WikiPathways, nanopub.org, and Rett Syndrome7-8 November 2016 | Harpenden, UK
ELIXIR-UK All-Hands meeting
7-8 November 2016 | Brussels, Belgium
ELIXIR Belgium Data Workshop
8 November 2016, Lausanne, Switzerland
Practical introduction to SPARQL for biologists and informaticians
10 November 2016, Lausanne, Switzerland
First Steps with UNIX in Life Sciences
15-17 November 2016, Lausanne, Switzerland
Introduction to Biological Network Analysis
21-25 November 2016 | Nijmegen, Netherlands
Comparative Genomics: from evolution to function (3rd edition)
28 Nov - 2 Dec 2016 | Roscoff, France
Metabolomics course in Galaxy Infrastructure
1-2 December 2016 | Bern, Switzerland
RNA-seq: From quality control to pathway analysis
30 January - 3 February 2017 | Hinxton, UK
Data Visualisation for Biology: a practical workshop on design, techniques and tools