Hub updates
Serena Scollen has joined the ELIXIR Hub as ELIXIR Head of Human Genomic and Translational data and Norman Morrison, as ELIXIR Technical lead: Data Interoperability. Further information here.
Their respective email addresses are: serena.scollen@elixir-europe.org and norman.morrison@elixir-europe.org.
Node updates
SIB will be organizing a 2-day conference to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Eukaryotic Promoter Database (EPD) to be held in Lausanne from the 29-30 September 2016. ELIXIR-ITA, in collaboration with the University of Bari, will be holding a training course on "Python for Life Scientists" in Bari, Italy, 26-30 September 2016.
Updates from Use cases
The recording from the webinar presented last week by Stephen Keenan (EMBL-EBI) update on the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) Data Working Group and API as part of the ELIXIR Webinar series can now be found via the ELIXIR website.
Upcoming events
Meetings and Conferences organised by ELIXIR Nodes
25-26 August 2016 | Odense, DenmarkAnnual Danish Bioinformatics Conference
ELIXIR related Workshops and Courses organised by ELIXIR Nodes
29 August - 2 September 2016 | Lausanne, SwitzerlandTraining course: Biochemical Pathways and Large Scale Metabolic Networks
12-14 September 2016 | Manchester, UK
4th Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences
19-20 September 2016 | Milan, Italy
Exome analysis with GALAXY
26-28 September 2016 | Leiden, Netherlands
NGS Course: RNA-seq data analysis, 2016 (6th edition) Please circulate this email to those who might be interested
26-30 September 2016Training course "Python for Life Scientists" 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
21-25 November 2016 | Nijmegen, Netherlands
Comparative Genomics: from evolution to function (3rd edition)