Weekly Brief 1 August 2016

Hub updates

Ireland has become the latest country to join ELIXIR. ELIXIR's Membership now stands at 19, and set to expand further in coming weeks when Germany becomes a Member.

Platform updates

The TeSS team has released the production version of the ELIXIR Training Portal: TeSS. It contains more than 3,000 training resources from 22 content providers. ELIXIR website now features new Compute page, listing ELIXIR compute and cloud services run by ELIXIR Nodes. ELIXIR AAI documentation page is now available on the ELIXIR website.

Node updates

ELIXIR Italy is hosting CHARME - EMBnet and NETTAB 2016 Workshop on 25-26 October 2016 in Rome. The event is preceded by ELIXIR Bioinformatics hacktahon and GOBLET/ELIXIR-Italy Training tutorial on Monday 24 October. Institut Franu00e7ais de Bioinformatique (ELIXIR France) is holding a workshop in metagenomics in Paris, 12-16 Sept 2016 and a metabolomics course in Galaxy Insfrastructure in Roscoff, 28 Nov-2 Dec 2016.

Job board

ELIXIR - France is seeking a post doc bioinformatician in genome assembly and annotation.

Upcoming events

Meetings and Conferences organised by ELIXIR Nodes

25-26 August 2016 | Odense, Denmark
Annual Danish Bioinformatics Conference

ELIXIR related Workshops and Courses organised by ELIXIR Nodes

29 August - 2 September 2016 | Lausanne, Switzerland
Training course: Biochemical Pathways and Large Scale Metabolic Networks

12-14 September 2016 | Manchester, UK
4th Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences

19-20 September 2016 | Milan, Italy
Exome analysis with GALAXY

26-28 September 2016 | Leiden, Netherlands
NGS Course: RNA-seq data analysis, 2016 (6th edition) Please circulate this email to those who might be interested
26-30 September 2016 | Bari, ItalyTraining course "Python for Life Scientists"
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

31 Oct - 3 Nov 2016 | Heraklion, Crete
Variant Effect Prediction Training Course

21-25 November 2016 | Nijmegen, Netherlands
Comparative Genomics: from evolution to function (3rd edition)