Weekly Brief 4 June 2018

Hub updates

The ELIXIR All Hands is taking place this week in Berlin, Germany. If you could not come to the meeting in person, you can follow it on twitter via #ELIXIR18. The detailed agenda is available online.

Note that all members of ELIXIR Hub are at the meeting, so there may be delays in answering to your emails.

Updates from Platforms

The call for submission of Recommended Interoperability Resource (RIR) selection is now open. A tutorial webinar for submission process will be held on 11 June 2018 at 15:00-16:00 BST. For questions, contact sirarat.sarntivijai@elixir-europe.org

Now published in NAR : VarAFT a variant annotation and filtration system for human NGS data by David Salgado et. al.

Registration open for the next ELIXIR Training: Plant Genome Assembly and Annotation, on 24-28 September 2018 in Montpellier, France.

Updates from Communities

The Workflow4Experimenters (W4E) course co-organized by ELIXIR France and MetaboHUB will take place from 8 to 12 October 2018 in Paris. This course participants will learn how to build and run comprehensive workflow analysis on their MS and NMR metabolomics data with Galaxy and the Workflow4Metabolomics platform. Pre-registrations is now open.

Updates from Nodes

 
Swiss Insitute of Bioinformatics (SIB, ELIXIR Switzerland) is launching a new educational mobile game Genome Jumper, as part of its 20th anniversary. Play over 20 avatars from populations around the world, and explore the similarities and the differences in their genes.
 
ELIXIR France is launching ProteoRE galaxy, Proteomics Research Environment: http://www.proteore.org/
 
ELIXIR Hungary organized second Training session in Galaxy based RNA-Seq data analysis on 28 May in Debrecen, Hungary. Special thanks for Galaxy Europe team in Freiburg, Germnay, for background support. An Autumn course in English will be organized. If interested please contact Balint L. Balint at: balintblaszlo@gmail.com.

Job board

 
ELIXIR UK is recruiting for the Node Coordinator (Head of Coordination office). The post is based at Earlham Institute in Norwich, UK.

ELIXIR Switzerland is looking for post-doc to work on life science semantic data integration. The post holder will be part of the CALIPHO group, affiliated to the University of Geneva.

ELIXIR Sweden is looking for one or two agile system developers to join the SciLifeLab team at the Uppsala University.

The EMBL-EBI Training team is looking for an Scientific Project Officer for a six-month period to support the EU-funded projects BioExcel and CORBEL.

Upcoming events

The ELIXIR TeSS portal has a variety of interesting events and courses organised by the ELIXIR Nodes.

ELIXIR events

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

13 June 2018
ELIXIR Webinar on the Systems Biology Implementation Study

6-10 July 2018, Chicago, USA
ISMB 2018 (including ELIXIR Session on 10 July)

8-12 September | Athens, Greece
ECCB 2018 (including ELIXIR Application Track)

12-13 November 2018 | Ljubljana, Slovenia
ELIXIR Board meeting

12-16 November 2018 | Paris, France
ELIXIR Biohackathon