Hub updates
ELIXIR Innovation and SME Forum took place last week in Helsinki, Finland. With Genomics and Health as the topic, the event presented some of the resources available through ELIXIR and showcased companies already using public bioinformatics resources in their business.
Update from Strategic workshop "The future of proteomics in ELIXIR"?
ELIXIR Hub have two new colleagues - Juan Arenas as EXCELERATE Project Manager (juan.arenas@elixir-europe.org) and Rachel Drysdale ELIXIR Data Platform Coordinator (rachel.drysdale@elixir-europe.org).
Anyone using twitter to communicate EXCELERATE via twitter, please make sure to include the #EXCELERATE and #ResearchImpactEU hashtags. More info.
Updates from Nodes
EMBL-EBI organises a series of bioinformatics trainings in Hinxton, UK. The registrations are now open:
- Bioinformatics for Principal Investigators (6-8 June, Hinxton, UK)
- Bioinformatics for core facility managers (6-8 June, Hinxton, UK)
- Data Resources and Bioinformatics Tools for Immunologists (12-16 June, Hinxton, UK)
- Cancer Genomics (20-23 June, Hinxton, UK)
ELIXIR Luxembourg organises a training course "Data processing with R tidyverse" on 2-5 May 2017 in Luxembourg. Registration is now open! A call for expression of interest to participate in Collaborative Doctorate Partnerships is now open (deadline March 15, 2017). University of Bari (member of the Italian ELIXIR Node) is planning to apply for the thematic field 'Genomics and Bioinformatics' and is seeking institutions from other ELIXIR Nodes with a PhD programme, interested in establishing collaborative exchanges in the framework of this Call. For further information please contact Graziano Pesole (graziano.pesole@uniba.it)
Updates from Use cases
The first stage of the Beacon Implementation study (2015-2016) resulted in lighting Beacons in five ELIXIR Nodes - Sweden, Finland, France, Switzerland and Belgium, and in the EGA. Another Beacon will soon be launched in ELIXIR Netherlands.
Updates from Platforms
Applications are now open for the upcoming training course on "Computational approaches to the study of protein interactions and rational drug design" organized ELIXIR-Italy, in collaboration with the University of Padova and RGS-Italy, to be held in Padova, Italy, 10-13 April 2017. Full details here.
Registration is also open for two upcoming BioExcel training events which may also be interest to the ELIXIR community. The Interoperability platform is holding a Kick-off meeting for the Bioschemas ELIXIR Implementation Study, this week in Hinxton, UK
Job board
The ELIXIR Hub is seeking two Coordinators - for Human Genomics and Translational Data Services and for the ELIXIR Compute platform. Another opening is for ELIXIR Technical Project Manager. An ELIXIR Communications intern is also sort.
ELIXIR Luxembourg is hiring Software engineer to work on web-based knowledge management tools, bioinformatics analysis algorithms and GUI design and implementation.
ELIXIR Belgium is seeking an enthusiastic ELIXIR Trainer to join their team.
ELIXIR Norway is seeking a Senior Engineer/Chief Engineer (system administrator) at the Department of Informatics, University of Bergen. The university also has numerous Associate Professor in Bioinformatics positions available.
Upcoming events
ELIXIR events
6-8 March 2017 | Hinxton, UK
ELIXIR Bioschemas Planning Meeting
21-23 March 2017 | Rome, Italy
ELIXIR All Hands 2017
3-6 April 2017, Espoo, Finland
ELIXIR EXCELERATE training course "Metagenomics data analysis"
4-5 April 2017 | Freiburg, Germany
ELIXIR AAI Training Workshop
6-7 April 2017 | Malaga, Spain
ELIXIR-EXCELERATE HPC Train-the-Researcher event