Weekly Brief 2 May 2016

Hub updates

ELIXIR has published it industry strategy (pdf). The Strategy contains five key objectives to address the needs of industry and SMEs in 'big data biology'.

Platform updates

The ELIXIR Training platform and ELIXIR-BD2K Training Consortium has issued a document outlining areas for collaboration between ELIXIR Training Platform and BD2K TCC.

ELIXIR Finland is organising EXCELERATE Training course Using clouds and VMs in bioinformatics training on 23-25 May 2015 in Espoo, Finland.

Job board

The ELIXIR Hub is seeking a Grant Support Officer to support pre- and post-award administrative aspects of ELIXIR grants.

EMBL-EBI is seeking an E-Infrastructure Integration Specialist to work on ELIXIR related activities within the EBI Technical Services team.

The University of Manchester (ELIXIR-UK) is seeking a Senior Research Software Engineer to co-ordinate identifier and interoperability efforts within the CORBEL project.

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 and project manager to join their team.

Upcoming events

ELIXIR Technical events

18-20 May 2016 | Paris, France
Technical Hackathon: Tools, Workflows and Workbenches

ELIXIR Industry events

12-13 May 2016 | Oslo, Norway
ELIXIR Innovation and SME Forum: Data-driven innovation in the aquaculture and marine industries

Meetings and Conferences organised by ELIXIR Nodes

10-13 May 2016 | Valencia, Spain
XIII Symposium on Bioinformatics

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

ELIXIR related Workshops and Courses organised by ELIXIR Nodes

9-11 May 2016 | Amsterdam, Netherlands
In silico life: constraint-based modelling at genome scale

10 May 2016 | Lausanne, Switzerland
Survival analysis

23-25 May 2016 | Espoo, Finland
Using clouds and VMs in bioinformatics training

23-27 May 2016 | Delft, Netherlands
Course: Algorithms for Biological Networks (4th edition)

24 May 2016 | Geneva, Switzerland
First Steps with UNIX in Life Sciences

29 May - 2 June 2016 | Leukerbad, Switzerland
Spring School Bioinformatics and Population Genomics

7-10 June 2016 | Naples, Italy
RNA-Seq data analysis workshop

20-21 June 2016, Lausanne, Switzerland
Software Carpentry Workshop

23-24 June 2016 | Basel, Switzerland
Software Carpentry Workshop