Hub updates
ELIXIR is at ECCB 2016 in The Hague, Netherlands this week. Come visit us at exhibition booth 15. Full programme here. The ELIXIR Application track session will take place on Monday and Tuesday (11.30-12.30 and 15.30-16.30). Follow #eccb2016 on twitter!
A Nature Methods editorial on database funding calls for coordinated strategies and a strong financial commitment by funders and institutions.
Node updates
ELIXIR Slovenia is holding a launch event in Ljubljana on 20 September 2016, followed by the 11th CFGBC symposium. More information and registration: www.elixir-slovenia.org.
EXCELERATE updates
Seven key EXCELERATE deliverables due end of August were submitted last week, including:
- ELIXIR Technical Services Roadmap;
- Training needs survey;
- List of metrics to support identification of ELIXIR core resources; and
- The requirements analysis for the ELIXIR framework for secure sharing of human access-controlled data.
The deliverables are available on Zenodo.
Platform updates
Dates for BYOD meeting on WikiPathways, nanopub.org, and Rett Syndrome announced. November 1-3 at Maastricht University. Details to follow.
Job board
The ELIXIR Hub is seeking a Data Coordinator to join the team at Hinxton.
ELIXIR Luxembourg is seeking a Science Manager and Software Developer for web-based translational medicine knowledge management and analysis tools.
ELIXIR France is seeking a post doc bioinformatician in genome assembly and annotation.
Upcoming events
ELIXIR related Workshops and Courses organised by ELIXIR Nodes
12-14 September 2016 | Manchester, UK4th Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences
20-21 September 2016 | Ljubljana, Slovenia ELIXIR Slovenija Launch & 11th CFGBC Symposium: 'Data For Life'
26 September 2016 | Basel, Switzerland
GATK Workshop
26-28 September 2016 | Leiden, Netherlands
NGS Course: RNA-seq data analysis, 2016 (6th edition) 26-30 September 2016 | Bari, ItalyTraining course "Python for Life Scientists"
29-30 September | Lausanne, Switzerland
EPD 30th Anniversary Symposium
20-21 October 2016 | Barcelona, Spain
BioExcel: workflow training for computational biomolecular research
20-21 October 2016 | Freiburg, Germany
Swiss German Galaxy Tour/Day 2016
25-26 October 2016 | Rome, Italy
Combined CHARME - EMBnet and NETTAB 2016 Workshop, 'Reproducibility, standards and SOP in bioinformatics'
26 - 28 October 2016 | Berlin, Germany
1st conference of the European Association of Systems Medicine
1-3 November 2016 | Maastricht, Netherlands
BYOD event on WikiPathways, nanopub.org, and Rett Syndrome
31 Oct - 3 Nov 2016 | Heraklion, Crete
Variant Effect Prediction Training Course
7-8 November 2016 | Harpenden, UK
ELIXIR-UK All-Hands meeting
7-9 November 2016 | Heidelberg, Germany
International de.NBI Symposium, "Bioinformatics for Human Health and Disease"
21-25 November 2016 | Nijmegen, Netherlands
Comparative Genomics: from evolution to function (3rd edition)
28 Nov - 2 Dec 2016 | Roscoff, France
Metabolomics course in Galaxy Infrastructure