Hub Updates
ELIXIR Hub is currently (Monday 4 Feb 2019) experiencing technical problems with the email server. It is being looked at, but please note it may take longer than usual to receive a response from ELIXIR Hub members.
The registration for the the ELIXIR 2019 All Hands meeting is now open! Register before 31 March 2019. The capacity is limited, so we recommend to register early to avoid disappointment.
Read the news release to annouce the kick-off of the FAIRplus project. For more information, go to www.fairplus-project.eu.
The second ELIXIR-hosted RI-PATHS workshop will take place near the Genome Campus (UK) on 9 May 2019. This is a participatory workshop contributing to the creation of a common methodology for assessing the socio-economic impact of research infrastructures. The focus will be on new ways of documenting network effects in research, innovation and training. Registration page:
To get the latest news from the RI-PATH project, read the second project newsletter.
Platform updates
Orphadata, a platform to aggregate rare disease datasets from Orphanet database, has joined the list of ELIXIR Core Data Resources.
Updates from Communities
ELIXIR Galaxy Community is organsing Galaxy training and hackathon in Roscoff, France, on 23-26 April 2019. The attendees will learn about the integration of high-quality tools within Galaxy and how to use Galaxy as a training tool. In the second half of the workshop attendees will be able to work on their own projects around tool integration and/or training material and develop them collaboratively, with the support of community experts.
The Galaxy Community Conference 2019 (GCC2019) will be held in Freiburg, Germany, in on 1-6 July 2019. Training will form an important part of the conference. The community is open to input on potential training topics so please take a few minutes to indicate your preferences.
Updates from Nodes
What courses, internships or traineeships are you interested in? Are you a student or (young) professional in Life Sciences & Health looking to enhance your professional skill development and enhance your career prospects? Fill in this questionnaire, to help define the target audience and interest for courses, internships and traineeships for young life science researchers. The survey is part of the Interreg-funded Helis Academy, a consortium to bridge the gap between academia and industry by providing courses, internships and traineeships in a number of skill areas. ELIXIR Netherlands/DTL and ELIXIR Belgium/VIB are the part of the consortium.
As part of the EXCELERATE ELIXIR-Carpentries agreement, ELIXIR Italy will host an ELIXIR Data Carpentry Workshop for Ecology on February 14-15 at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy. Course attendance is free of charge.
Another ELIXIR Software Carpentry Workshop hosted by ELIXIR Italy will focus on Unix shell, version control with Git and R programming language and will take place on 11-12 February 2019 at the National Research Council in Naples, Italy. Course attendance is free of charge.
ELIXIR Italy, in collaboration with the Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine (TIGEM) and the National Research Council, is organising a practical course on Single Cell RNA Sequencing and Data Analysis on 7-9 May 2019. The registration is now open.
Read the latest news from the Tryggve project, the collaboration of ELIXIR Nordic countries on sensitive genomics data.
Job board
All vacancies are also published on the ELIXIR website vacancies section (also including vacancies from industry). Submit vacancies from your Node or industry partners.
The Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG, part of ELIXIR Spain) is currently looking to fill the Postdoctoral Position on Human Genomics Data. The successful candidate will co-load the curation and enrichment of EGA metadata and raw data in a context of HPC and Big Data.
The Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) is seeking experienced Computational Scientist for the Prostate Cancer Clinical Research Unit to work in projects involving the molecular characterisation of DNA deficient prostate cancer as well as clinical trials in this disease.
SIB (ELIXIR Switzerland) in collaboration with sciCORE - the scientific computing center of the University of Basel are looking for Bioinformatics Training and Support Specialist to support training and research services.
ELIXIR Belgium is opening a couple of positions, all based in Gent at the Flemish Institute for Biotechnology (VIB):
- ELIXIR Data Steward
- ELIXIR Open Science Community Manager
- ELIXIR Scientific Cloud Coordinator
- Software developer cloud data processing
- ELIXIR Software developer data management tools
- ELIXIR Bioinformatics Trainer
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (part of ELIXI Spain) is looking for a highly motivated Research Engineer to join the Computational Genomics group.
Upcoming events
The ELIXIR TeSS portal has a variety of interesting events and courses organised by the ELIXIR Nodes.
ELIXIR events
ELIXIR Innovation and SME event: Genomics and Associated Data in National Healthcare Initiatives
15-16 April 2019 | Bergen, Norway
ELIXIR Board meeting
17-20 June 2019 | Lisbon, Portugal
ELIXIR All Hands meeting