Hub updates
Melissa Balzano joins the ELIXIR Hub this week as Events Officer and will be responsible for organising meetings, workshops, events and conferences hosted by the ELIXIR Hub. Melissa's email address is: melissa.balzano@elixir-europe.org.
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
Upcoming Cloud workshop in Heidelberg, RNA-Seq Galaxy workflow offered by NeLS and ELIXIR NO, and updates at Computerome are the latest news from Tryggve, a collaboration of ELIXIR Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden on sensitive data. Hana Pergl-Sustkova has joined ELIXIR CZ as Project Manager to coordinate the national ELIXIR CZ project. She will also be the administrative contact point for ELIXIR Hub. Hana's email is: hana.pergl_sustkova@uochb.cas.cz
Platform updates
Representatives from ELIXIR-EXCELERATE WP4, WP5, WP9, WP10, WP11 are encouraged to register for the ELIXIR Data Nodes Network Workshop organised by ELIXIR Czech Republic on 13-14 April in Prague, Czech Republic.
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.
SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics is seeking a Communications Manager, project manager and Clinical Bioinformatics Project Manager to join their team.
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)
21-22 April 2016 | Heidelberg, Germany
Towards Cloud Solutions For Life Sciences And Translational Medicine
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
10-13 May 2016 | Valencia, Spain
XIII Symposium on Bioinformatics
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
7-10 June 2016 | Naples, Italy
RNA-Seq data analysis workshop
25-26 Aug 2016 | Odense, Denmark.
Annual Danish Bioinformatics Conference.