Key Contributors Update, 18 January 2019
This update is sent weekly on Friday afternoon and goes to ELIXIR key stakeholders. It contains requests for actions regarding operations and developments within ELIXIR. Contact joana.wingender@elixir-europe.org for any questions.
An ELIXIR HoNs shared folder including meeting materials from HoN meetings, reference documents, slides & graphics archive can be found on google drive.
Key Contributors Update, 11 January 2019
This update is sent weekly on Friday afternoon and goes to ELIXIR key stakeholders. It contains requests for actions regarding operations and developments within ELIXIR. Contact joana.wingender@elixir-europe.org for any questions.
An ELIXIR HoNs shared folder including meeting materials from HoN meetings, reference documents, slides & graphics archive can be found on google drive.
Weekly Brief 14 January 2019
Hub Updates
The first trans-national call through the European Joint Programme for Rare Diseases (EJP-RD) has opened. The call includes a topic on '-omic or multi-omic integrated approaches for discovery of disease causes and mechanisms including development of relevant bioinformatic tools, which may be of interest to Nodes. The call text references ELIXIR as an infrastructure of relevance. The deadline is 15 February.
Weekly Brief 21 January 2019
Hub Updates
Today is the kick-off of the IMI2 project FAIRplus. The goal of the project is to increase the discovery, accessibility and reusability of data from selected projects funded by the EUs Innovative Medicine Initiative (IMI), and internal data from pharmaceutical industry partners. The project is led by the ELIXIR Hub and Janssen (PIs are Serena Scollen and Herman van Vlijmen) and will run for three and a half years.
Bioinformatics Training and Support Specialist
The SIB Training Group in collaboration with sciCORE - the scientific computing center of the University of Basel and one of the technological platforms of SIB - are hiring a Bioinformatics Training and Support Specialist (80-100%) to support training and research services.
The ideal candidate has a PhD degree in bioinformatics, computational biology or a related subject, and enthusiasm for training. Some postdoctoral experience and a track record in teaching and/or outreach and training, at a university or elsewhere, are a plus. The content of the training courses to be developed and offered can be adapted to the background of the candidate, however we are particularly interested in expertise in the broad areas of genomics and protein bioinformatics. A solid grasp of statistics and proficiency in at least one programming language are required. The primary working languages will be R and Python. Experience in high-performance computing would be an asset.