Weekly Brief 21 December 2015

Hub updates

This week saw the launch of the ELIXIR Gateway on F1000Research. Read the Editorial to learn more about the Gateway scope. Internal guidelines on how to submit articles for the channels are available on the Intranet and on Google drive.

Slides from the ELIXIR-EXCELERATE Kick off meeting are now available via the events page on the ELIXIR Website.

Registration for the ELIXIR all hands meeting to be held in Barcelona on 8-9 March 2016 will open early January 2016. Look out for further details in our next update on 11 January 2016.

This is the last edition of the ELIXIR Weekly update, we'll be back again on 11 January. Thank you for all your support, have a lovely Christmas and enjoy the holiday season.


Job board

The Center for non-coding RNA in Technology and Health in Copenhagen (part of ELIXIR-Denmark) is seeking Postdoctoral fellow in infrastructure for RNA bioinformatics, Research Assistant in infrastructure for RNA bioinformatics and Postdoctoral fellow in RNA Bioinformatics and Transcriptome Analysis to join their team. The closing date for applications is 3 January 2016.

The ELIXIR Hub is seeking: ELIXIR Human Data Coordinator, and ELIXIR Technical Project Officer (Service Management and Quality Assurance). The closing date for applications is 3 January 2016. The ELIXIR Hub is also seeking an ELIXIR Events officer. The closing date for applications is 31 January 2016.

Upcoming events

13-14 January 2016 | Lausanne, Switzerland
ELIXIR Data and Software Carpentry Instructor Training workshop

19-20 January 2016 | Freiburg, Germany
Tools Registry Hackathon with de.NBI

25-28 January 2016| Basel, Switzerland
SIB Training course: "Protein Bioinformatics: Sequence-Structure-Function"

1-3 February 2016 | Leicester, UK
DNA-Seq Next Generation Sequencing workshop

4-7 February 2016 | Lyngby, Denmark
ELIXIR Tools and Data Services Registry - Resource Hackathon: DebianMed

8-9 March 2016 | Barcelona, Spain
ELIXIR all hands 2016

17-18 March 2016 | Leuven, Belgium
VIB 'Applied Bioinformatics in Life Sciences' Conference

6-8 April 2016 | Copenhagen, Denmark
GOBLET/ELIXIR hackaton for metagenomics training materials re-use

19-20 April 2016 | Lunteren, The Netherlands
Dutch Bioinformatics & Systems Biology conference (BioSB 2016)