Weekly Brief 8 October 2018

Hub updates

You can still register for the workshop "How to write a Competitive Proposal for Horizon 2020" to take place on 2 November 2018 in Hinxton, UK. The workshop is free but you will need to cover your own travel and accommodation. Register online!

Take part in a short online survey to learn about your opinion on the ELIXIR Staff Exchange Programme. The deadline is 15 October 2018. Thank you!

Updates from Platforms

SoftDev Best Practices is organising an issue bonanza to improve 4OSS lesson content on 10-12 October. It will help us identify issues that need fixing before publication. You dont need to be an expert in the materials - we need people to help search for broken links and typos too! And also remember that contribution to issue bonanza also counts for Hacktoberfest achievements. https://github.com/SoftDev4Research/4OSS-lesson
 

With the upcoming deadline of the Community-led Request for Proposals, the Interoperability Platform is here to help you. Please kindly provide a short paragraph description with detailed specific planning to ensure our timely response. Please contact sirarat.sarntivijai@elixir-europe.org for further questions.

ELIXIR Training is organising a satellite event at NETTAB in Genova, Italy on 22 October 2018 Adopting Open Source Software FAIR Practices.

Updates from Communities

ELIXIR and ELIXIR Switzerland supported and co-hosted the Plenary meeting of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) in Basel, Switzerland last week. ELIXIR presented its Human data activities and the ELIXIR Beacon project. The recordings from the Plenary session are available on the GA4GH YouTube channel.

Updates from Nodes

The registration is now open for the EMBL-EBI course Introduction to Metabolomics Analysis Course on 5-8 February 2019 in Hinxton, UK.
 

Members of ELIXIR Slovenia are co-organising the largest Systems Medicine symposium in Europe, the 2nd Conference of the European Association of Systems Medicine on 7 9 November 2018 in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Registration is still open. Please consider joining the conference that represents a unique occasion for closer links between ELIXIR and the leaders in the field of Systems Medicine.

 
Registrations are open for the SIB course on Single-cell RNA-Seq Analysis, in Bern (Switzerland), on 28-30 November 2018. This course will close with a minisymposium consisting of short scientific talks from SIB researchers on single-cell.
 
ELIXIR Sweden is organising a planning workshop in Capacity Building in Single Cell transcriptomics in Uppsala, Sweden, 29--30 November 2018 (lunch to lunch). Please read more and register online. For more information please contact henrik.lantz@nbis.se
 

Registrations are open for the SIB course on Single-cell RNA-Seq Analysis, in Bern (Switzerland), on 28-30 November 2018. This course will close with a minisymposium consisting of short scientific talks from SIB researchers on single-cell.


Registrations are open for the SIB course on Ligand-protein docking, and computer-aided drug design, in Basel (Switzerland), on 27-28 November 2018.
 

There are still free seats available for the 1st de.NBI Cloud User Meeting. In a 3-day event on 29 - 31 October 2018 at Bielefeld University you can learn about life science projects hosted in the de.NBI Cloud. Talks and workshops will be given about current de.NBI Cloud projects and state of the art cloud computing technologies like Spark, Docker and Kubernetes.

Job board

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 France (IFB) is looking to hire a candidate to work on Bioinformatics resource interoperability development.

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

The ELIXIR Core Data Resource, CATH, is seeking to hire a 3 years Postdoctoral Research Associate to work on protocols for using protein structural data to link sequence with function.

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

15-16 October 2018 | Frankfurt, Germany
ELIXIR Innovation and SME Forum on Industrial Biotechnology

19 October | Basel, Switzerland
3DBioinfo meeting: Launch Meeting for a proposed ELIXIR Community in Structural Bioinformatics