Weekly Brief 13 June 2016

Hub updates

ELIXIR Heads of Nodes meet in Windsor, UK, this week for their annual retreat meeting. The agenda includes the technical strategies from the Data and Compute platforms and priorities for the 2017 Work Plan. A full update from the meeting will follow.

The upcoming ELIXIR Webinar on BioMAJ2Galaxy takes place this Wednesday, 15 June, at 14.00 BST.

Node updates

Full programme announced for the Annual Danish Bioinformatics Conference to be hosted by ELIXIR Denmark in Odense, 25-26 August 2016. Register here. ELIXIR UK has published its Newsletter for June 2016 (pdf).

Updates from platforms

ELIXIR Finland (CSC - IT Center for Science) organised ELIXIR-EXCELERATE training workshop Using clouds and VMs in bioinformatics on 23-25 May in Espoo, Finland. Slides and presentation videos are now available online. The ELIXIR Compute platform met in Helsinki last week, bring together WP4 participants to plan the work distribution and put together the upcoming deliverables. A full update from the meeting will follow.

Job board

The Dutch Techcentre for Life Science (DTL, ELIXIR Netherlands) is seeking two Software Engineers - Linked Data.

Upcoming events

ELIXIR Technical events

30 June - 1 July 2016 | Hinxton, UK
ELIXIR-GA4GH Beacon Security Workshop

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

28-29 June 2106, Bern, Switzerland
First steps with R in Life Sciences