Weekly Brief 21 August 2017

Hub updates

Following, the ELIXIR Communications Survey for the Internal ELIXIR Community, (which you invited to take part in), we have launched a Survey for External Users to review and improve ELIXIR's external communications. Please feel free to pass this survey on to your non-ELIXIR colleagues.

Updates from Nodes

The Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics is hosting a Bioinformatics of long read sequencing course, 5-6 October 2017, in Zurich. Familiarise yourself with long read sequencing technologies, their application and bioinformatics tools for their assembly.

Job board

DTU (ELIXIR Denmark) is seeking a database architect and scientific computing programmer.

EMBL-EBI is looking for Biocurator to join the Data Coordination and Archiving Team. The post holder will contribute to EU projects EMBRIC and ENVRI+ where EMBL-EBI represents ELIXIR.

Upcoming events

See the ELIXIR TeSS portal for all events organised by ELIXIR Nodes. ELIXIR events

18-22 September 2017 | Rome, Italy
5th International Summer School/BYOD event: Rare Disease & Orphan Drug Registries

27-29 September, 2017| Fisciano, Italy
ELIXIR-EXCELERATE Train the Trainer course

9-10 October 2017 | Brussels, Belgium
ELIXIR Innovation and SME Forum: Data-driven innovation in food, nutrition and the microbiome

4-7 June 2018 | Berlin, Germany
ELIXIR All Hands meeting