Weekly Brief 11 July 2016

Hub updates

The ELIXIR Annual Report for 2015 is now available via the ELIXIR website.

Updates from Nodes

EMBL-EBI teams up with Czech ELIXIR Node to build annotation capacity in the Czech Republic. Pre-registration is now open for the NGS Course: RNA-seq data analysis, 2016 (6th edition) taking place September 26-28, 2016, at the Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands.

Updates from Use cases

The recording from the webinar presented recently by representatives from the Human Data Use Case demonstrating local EGA set up, can now be found via the ELIXIR Website. The slides are available on github.

The mission report from the recent GA4GH & ELIXIR Beacon Security Workshop held at EMBL-EBI on 30 June-1 July is now available.

Updates from Platforms

Mission report from the International and interdisciplinary workshop on Active Data Management at CERN (28-30 June 2016) is now available.

Job board

The Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) is seeking a System Administrator for their prospective ELIXIR Node.

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)

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)