Weekly Brief 22 August 2016

Hub updates

Germany has become a Member of ELIXIR. ELIXIR's Membership now stands at 20.

Thanks to all authors who submitted their posters to the ECCB. The full list (including ELIXIR poster) is on the ECCB website (pdf). You can also have a look at the ELIXIR Application track programme.

Node updates

DTL (ELIXIR Netherlands) is organising ECCB 2016 workshop about Data Stewardship and Future European Research Funding, Sunday 3 September, The Hague, Netherlands. CSC (ELIXIR Finland) has a new staff - Johanna Kaunisvaara will be in charge of the Node coordination and communications. She can be reached at johanna.kaunisvaara@csc.fi.

Platform updates

Montse Gonzales, ELIXIR Technical Officer, will take up the role of the ELIXIR Compute platform coordinator (part time).

Job board

ELIXIR - France is seeking a post doc bioinformatician in genome assembly and annotation.

Upcoming events

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

29 August - 2 September 2016 | Lausanne, Switzerland
Training course: Biochemical Pathways and Large Scale Metabolic Networks

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

12-16 September 2016 | Paris, France
Workshop in metagenomics

19-20 September 2016 | Milan, Italy
Exome analysis with GALAXY

26 September 2016 | Basel, Switzerland
GATK Workshop

26-28 September 2016 | Leiden, Netherlands
NGS Course: RNA-seq data analysis, 2016 (6th edition) 26-30 September 2016 | Bari, ItalyTraining course "Python for Life Scientists"

20-21 October 2016 | Barcelona, Spain
BioExcel: workflow training for computational biomolecular research

20-21 October 2016 | Freiburg, Germany
Swiss German Galaxy Tour/Day 2016
25-26 October 2016 | Rome, Italy
Combined CHARME - EMBnet and NETTAB 2016 Workshop, 'Reproducibility, standards and SOP in bioinformatics'

26 - 28 October 2016 | Berlin, Germany
1st conference of the European Association of Systems Medicine

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

7-8 November 2016 | Harpenden, UK
ELIXIR-UK All-Hands meeting

21-25 November 2016 | Nijmegen, Netherlands
Comparative Genomics: from evolution to function (3rd edition)

28 Nov - 2 Dec 2016 | Roscoff, France
Metabolomics course in Galaxy Infrastructure