Hub updates
The ELIXIR Board is holding its fifth meeting in Prague this week. Items on the agenda include - among others:
- ELIXIR Node applications from new ELIXIR Member States
- New members to the ELIXIR Scientific Advisory Board and Industry Advisory Committee
- First ELIXIR Commissioned Service Contracts
- Revised ELIXIR Hub Budget and Work Plan for 2016
- Membership applications of Germany, Ireland and Luxembourg
Node updates
ELIXIR Sweden is now NBIS - National Bioinformatics Infrastructure Sweden, with a new website and domain: http://nbis.se Gerard Kleywegt writes about new paper by EMBL-EBI describing PDBe's new volume slicer. The volume slicer allows scientists to look in detail at 3D bioimaging datasets.
As Biocuration 2016 gets underway in Geneva, the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (ELIXIR Switzerland) reflects on the Art of Biocuration and how it has made UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot the gold-standard protein data resource for the past 30 years. Read more about this trusted source of freely available protein information on the EMBL-EBI and SIB websites.
Platform updates
ELIXIR-SI Resource Hackathon took place in Ljubljana, Slovenia on 8 April 2016 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The participants added six Slovenian tools to the ELIXIR Tools and Service registry (bio.tools) registry, 19 more will be added in the near future.
Use Cases updates
ELIXIR Norway and EMBL-EBI carried out in 2014-2015 a pilot action to harmonise their existing metagenomics pipelines. Read more more in our news release.
Job board
The ELIXIR Hub is seeking a ELIXIR Technical Lead (Data and Interoperability) to join the team at Hinxton.
The Dutch Techcentre for Life Science (DTL, ELIXIR Netherlands) is seeking two Software Engineers - Linked Data.
SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics is seeking a Communications Manager, project manager and Clinical Bioinformatics Project Manager to join their team.
Upcoming events
10-14 April 2016 | Geneva, Switzerland
Biocuration 2016
12-14 April 2016 | Lausanne, Switzerland
Introduction to Markov models
19-20 April 2016 | Lunteren, The Netherlands
Dutch Bioinformatics & Systems Biology conference (BioSB 2016)
20 April 2016 |
ELIXIR Webinar - Update on ELIXIR - TraIT pilot
21-22 April 2016 | Heidelberg, Germany
Towards Cloud Solutions For Life Sciences And Translational Medicine
25-27 April 2016 | Lausanne, Switzerland
Exploring common and rare disease genetics with GWAS and NGS
26-27 April 2016 | Copenhagen, Denmark
1st European Conference for Translational Bioinformatics
2-5 May 2016 | Naples, Italy
NGS for evolutionary biologists: from basic scripting to variant calling
9-11 May 2016 | Amsterdam, Netherlands
In silico life: constraint-based modelling at genome scale
10-13 May 2016 | Valencia, Spain
XIII Symposium on Bioinformatics
12-13 May 2016 | Oslo, Norway
ELIXIR Innovation and SME Forum: Data-driven innovation in the aquaculture and marine industries
18-20 May 2016 | Paris, France
Technical Hackathon: Tools, Workflows and Workbenches
23-23 May 2016 | Espoo, Finland
Using clouds and VMs in bioinformatics training
May 23 - 27, 2016 | Delft, Netherlands
Course: Algorithms for Biological Networks (4th edition)
29 May - 2 June 2016 | Leukerbad, Switzerland
Spring School Bioinformatics and Population Genomics
7-10 June 2016 | Naples, Italy
RNA-Seq data analysis workshop
25-26 Aug 2016 | Odense, Denmark.
Annual Danish Bioinformatics Conference.