Hub updates
The ELIXIR webinar to present the integration of de.NBI cloud with ELIXIR AAI takes place this week on Wednesday 7 March at 14.00 CET
ELIXIR cited as a good practice example in a report by ESFRI Innovation Working group (page 85).
Gary Saunders and Sirarat Sarntivijai joined the ELIXIR Hub last week. Sirarat (sirarat.sarntivijai@elixir-europe.org) will work as the ELIXIR Interoperability Platform Coordinator, Garry (gary.saunders@elixir-europe.org) takes the post of ELIXIR of Human Data Coordinator.
ERC Scientific Council guide for Open Research Data and Data Management Plans mentions ELIXIR Recommended Deposition Archives and ELIXIR Interoperability Platform.
RITrain has three knowledge/staff exchange events open to applicants from European Research Infrastructures:
- Stakeholder Management and Community Building hosted by the Institute of Molecular Genetics, Academy of Sciences Czech Republic, in Prague, 22-25 May 2018. Deadline for applications: 31 March 2018
- Operating and managing large sustainable on-site research infrastructures hosted by DESY (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron) in Hamburg, Germany, 6-8 June 2018. Deadline for applications: 6 April 2018
- Governance, business context and operational planning for hubs & nodes organised by EATRIS ERIC, 12-13 June 2018 in Amsterdam. Deadline for application: 15 March 2018
Deadline extended until 9 March 2018 for submitting proposals to access European multi-disciplinary environmental research platforms. More information on ENVRIPlus website.
Updates from Platforms
ELIXIR Compute Platform organises ELIXIR AAI training to help Node services providers to integrate their services to ELIXIR AAI. 24-25 April, Munich, Germany.
Registration open for the Workshop Applying bioinformatics and data science competency frameworks to ELIXIR Training, 5-6 April 2018, Amsterdam. The workshop is aimed at experts in defining and applying competency bioinformatics and data science frameworks.
GBI/ELIXIR/EuBI/NEUBIAS are jointly organizing a hackathon on image analysis training material re-usability, 14-15 May at the University of Cambridge, UK. Deadline for registration is today!
Updates from Use Cases
The Galaxy Community invites all ELIXIR members to their Galaxy User Conference in Freiburg on 15-16 March, collocated with ELIXIR Galaxy Community kick-off meeting on 14 March.
The 3rd European Conference on Translational Bioinformatics (ECTB) will take place in Barcelona on 16-17 April 2018. Registration is now open.
You can also register for the conferenceThe Impact of Genomics Data on Health: the Role of the European Genome-phenome Archive on 13 April 2018 in Barcelona.
The new ELIXIR Proteomics Community highlighted in HUPO (Human Proteome Organisation) newsletter.
Job board
ELIXIR Norway is looking for Service Scientist (Researcher) at the Computational Biology Unit, Department of Informatics, University of Bergen.
Upcoming events
The ELIXIR TeSS portal has a variety of interesting events and courses organised by the ELIXIR Nodes.