Weekly Brief 20 June 2016

Hub updates

ELIXIR Heads of Nodes met in Windsor, UK, last week for their annual retreat meeting. Items on the agenda included the technical strategies from the Data and Compute platforms and priorities for the 2017 Work Plan.

The Call for the ELIXIR Poster track at the ECCB 2016 is open and all ELIXIR members are encouraged to submit their posters. The deadline is 22 July 2016.

Our apologies that last week's ELIXIR Webinar on BioMAJ2Galaxy was postponed. It will be rescheduled for a later date.

Job board

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

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

12-14 September 2016 | Manchester, UK
4th Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences

31 Oct - 3 Nov 2016 | Heraklion, Crete
Variant Effect Prediction Training Course