Hub updates
Many thanks to all authors and exhibitors from ELIXIR Nodes who participated in the ECCB 2016 in The Hague in Netherlands! All presentations and posters will soon be available on our F1000R channel.
A special thanks to the members of the ELIXIR F1000R channel Advisory Board - Arlindo Oliveira, Bengt Persson, Inge Jonassen, and Barend Mons for reviewing the ELIXIR track submissions and chairing the ELIXIR sessions.
Node updates
The Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciu00eancia is running a course on the analysis of B and T cell repertoires from high-throughput sequencing data using bioinformatics workflows in Oeiras, Portugal 2-4 November 2016. More information about this and other courses can be found here. The SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics is part of a new European research project RHAPSODY to improve the diagnosis and treatment of diabetes. EMBL-EBI organises a series of training events in 2016 and 2017: Exploring biological sequence data (Nov 2016); Exploring genomic variation (Nov-Dec 2016); Data visualisation for biology (Jan-Feb 2017); and Practical Course on Metabolomics (Feb 2017).
Platform updates
ELIXIR's F1000Research channel publishes paper Top 10 metrics for life science software good practices by M. Corpas et al. as an outcome of the joint ELIXIR-SSI workshop in December 2015.
EXCELERATE updates
ELIXIR is launching a series of project management network monthly phone conferences to take place every second Monday of the month from 14:00-15:00 CET time.
The phone conferences are intended to provide a forum for discussion for project management and administrative staff from the Nodes.
The first phone conference on 'EC funding rules and project financial reporting' will take place TODAY, Monday 12 September.
Interested parties should register for the Project Management Network to receive further information.
For more information about upcoming events see the ELIXIR Project Management Network Google calendar.
Job board
The ELIXIR Hub is seeking a Data Coordinator to join the team at Hinxton.
ELIXIR Luxembourg is seeking a Science Manager and Software Developer for web-based translational medicine knowledge management and analysis tools.
ELIXIR France is seeking a post doc bioinformatician in genome assembly and annotation.
Upcoming events
ELIXIR related Workshops and Courses organised by ELIXIR Nodes
20-21 September 2016 | Ljubljana, Slovenia ELIXIR Slovenija Launch & 11th CFGBC Symposium: 'Data For Life'26 September 2016 | Basel, Switzerland
GATK Workshop
26-28 September 2016 | Leiden, Netherlands
NGS Course: RNA-seq data analysis, 2016 (6th edition) 26-30 September 2016 | Bari, ItalyTraining course "Python for Life Scientists"
29-30 September | Lausanne, Switzerland
EPD 30th Anniversary Symposium
20-21 October 2016 | Barcelona, Spain
BioExcel: workflow training for computational biomolecular research
20-21 October 2016 | Freiburg, Germany
Swiss German Galaxy Tour/Day 2016
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
1-3 November 2016 | Hinxton, UK
Exploring biological sequence data - training course
1-3 November 2016 | Maastricht, Netherlands
BYOD event on WikiPathways, nanopub.org, and Rett Syndrome
31 Oct - 3 Nov 2016 | Heraklion, Crete
Variant Effect Prediction Training Course
2-4 November 2016 | Oeiras, Portugal
Analysis of B and T cell repertoires from high-throughput sequencing data using bioinformatics workflows
7-8 November 2016 | Harpenden, UK
ELIXIR-UK All-Hands meeting
7-9 November 2016 | Heidelberg, Germany
International de.NBI Symposium, "Bioinformatics for Human Health and Disease"
21-25 November 2016 | Nijmegen, Netherlands
Comparative Genomics: from evolution to function (3rd edition)
28 Nov - 1 Dec 2016 | Hinxton, UK
Exploring genomic variation with high throughput sequencing data
28 Nov - 2 Dec 2016 | Roscoff, France
Metabolomics course in Galaxy Infrastructure