Weekly Brief 5 November 2018

Hub Updates

The 2019 ELIXIR All Hands Programme Committee would like to request suggestions for workshops at the All Hands meeting in Lisbon on 17-20 June. To capture your ideas on the contents of these workshops, please submit your suggestions to the workshop google doc by Friday 30 November.

The ELIXIR Innovation and SME forum took place on 15-16 October 2018 in Frankfurt, Germany. Focusing on Industrial Biotechnology presented ELIXIR resources as well as activities of companies working with open data. The slides are available online. Also see the photos from the event.

The second EOSCpilot Stakeholders Forum 2018 will take place on 21-22 November 2018 in Vienna, Austria. Registration is still open.

Updates from Platforms

ELIXIR-TeSS will be conducting a Bioschemas workshop with GOBLET at the GOBLET AGM 2018 in Toronto this week. The aim will be to finalize two new specifications to facilitate marking-up training courses online using schema.org.

Updates from Communities

The Intrinsically Disordered Proteins Community held their Community Workshop in Padua, Italy on 31 October. The meeting was well attended and included representatives of ELIXIR Platforms and Communities and INSTRUCT. Slides from the meeting will be available soon.

Updates from Nodes

Registrations are still open for the Single Cell Data Analysis School. The workshop will take place at Station Biologique de Roscoff, France, on 3-8 February 2019.

ELIXIR-NL held a Galaxy Course in Amsterdam from 17-19 October 2018. The European Galaxy server was succesfully used and all materials are available for re-use.

Nicola Soranzo from the Earlham Institute in Norwich is taking up on the role of ELIXIR UK Technical Coordinator.

Job board

University of Bielefeld (Lead institute of de.NBI - ELIXIR Germany) and ZB MED - Information Centre for Life Sciences are hiring a Professor of Service Science in the Life Sciences. Deadline for applications is 10 December 2018.

The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) is currently looking for an Data Security Technologist.

The Centre for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics (CMBI) is currently looking for an Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics for Personalized Medicine at Radboudumc in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

ELIXIR Sweden is looking for one or two system developers with operational responsibility, based at Uppsala University.

ELIXIR is offering an internship position relating to Beacon. The candidate will support the ELIXIR Beacon implementation study and the Beacon activities driven by the Human Genomics and Translational Data Services at the ELIXIR Hub.

The SIB Text Mining group in Geneva (part of ELIXIR Switzerland) is looking for three associate researchers.

The Galaxy team at the University of Freiburg (part of ELIXIR Germany) is looking for a full time JavaScript developer to support the development of the Galaxy Europe instance.

Upcoming events

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

ELIXIR events