Hub Updates
Happy New Year to all. We wish you all the very best in 2019 and looking forward to working with you in ELIXIR!
THE IMI project FAIRPlus has officially kicked-off on 1 January 2019. Coordinated by ELIXIR, the project will develop a methodology how to make IMI and EFPIA data FAIR. More information will be available soon.
See the slides and photos from the ELIXIR 5th Anniversary conference in December 2018 in Brussels.
Freie Universitt Berlin is organising a workshop Towards Health Futures: Digital Innovation, Infrastructure, and Entrepreneurship on Bio Data on 7-8 March 2019 in Berlin. The Call for Abstracts is open until 9 January 2019.
Platform updates
The ELIXIR Spain Malaga team along with Louisa Bellis, Pedro Fernandes and Brane Leskosek have published an article "Training bioinformaticians in High Performance Computing" in the Heliyon journal featuring a Train the Researcher workshop that took place in Malaga in collaboration with ELIXIR Slovenia. The article discusses the training approaches that can be used to teach HPC to life sciences researchers and discusses the outcomes of the particular course.
As a part of the ELIXIR-EXCELERATE Data Platform work, EuropePMC (one of the ELIXIR Core Data Resources) is conducting a survey to get a better understanding of specific biocuration needs. Please bring the survey to the attention of any curators that you know. The survey should take about 5 minutes to complete, and the results will be invaluable to this initiative. Many thanks!
The Tools Platform will be organising their yearly F2F meeting at the VIB in Ghent between 28-30 January, registration is available through Eventbrite. Please register before 14 January!
Updates from Nodes
Registrations are still open for three SIB courses taking place in January and February 2019:
- Introduction to Statistics, Zurich, 22-25 January 2019
- First Steps with UNIX in Life Sciences, Lausanne, 30 January 2019
- R packaging, Zurich, 5 February 2019
Job board
CSC (ELIXIR Finland) is looking for a Software Developer for DevOps tasks to build CSC's competence in managing sensitive data such as national genomes consented for research.
IRB Barcelona (part of ELIXIR Spain) is currently looking to hire a talented and highly motivated Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Structural Bioinformatics and Network Biology group.
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (part of ELIXI Spain) is looking for a highly motivated Research Engineer to join the Computational Genomics group.
The Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (part of ELIXIR Netherlands) has an open tenure track position in Bioinformatics or Statistical Machine Learning. Applications need to be received by 19 December 2018.
Upcoming events
The ELIXIR TeSS portal has a variety of interesting events and courses organised by the ELIXIR Nodes.
ELIXIR events
ELIXIR Innovation and SME event: Genomics and Associated Data in National Healthcare Initiatives