Hub updates
The ELIXIR Hub is pleased to welcome David Lloyd as a Project Co-ordinator. He will support the work around ELIXIR Service Delivery Plans and ELIXIR Beacons development. David previously worked at the Sanger Institute where he was a co-ordinator for GA4GH. He can be reached at david.lloyd@elixir-europe.org
Updates from Nodes
DTL has published a paper in Briefings in Bioinformatics about Bioinformatics in the Netherlands. They provide a historical overview of the inception and development of bioinformatics research in the Netherlands and the value of a nationwide community.
The Netherlands Node is organising Health-RI 2017 on 08 December 2017 in Utrecht, Netherlands. The latest developments and opportunities in biobanking, FAIR data management, ethical and legal aspects, IT solutions, and exciting science, which lead to impactful personalized medicine and health solutions will be discussed. ELIXIR UK is running Biological data analysis using InterMine at the University of Cambridge on 27 October 2017. InterMine is a freely available data integration and analysis system that has been used to create a suite of databases for the analysis of large and complex biological data sets.
Updates from Platforms
The Data Platform gave a webinar on The ELIXIR Core Data Resources - selection process and outcomes on Wednesday 20th September. Slides and the webinar are now available. The Compute Platform is pleased to announce that ELIXIR Authentication and Authorisation Infrastructure (AAI) is a cover story in the latest GEANT CONNECT magazine. The Tools Platform is organising an ELIXIR biocontainers hackathon on 9-11 October 2017 in Paris. The aim is to accelerate and consolidate the Containers Platform as a Service, and integrate with other groups eg Workflows & workbenches and Software tools (Bio.Tools). Joint meeting of FairSharing working group and ELIXIR Interest Group took place on Tuesday last week as part of the 10th Plenary meeting of the Research Data Alliance in Montreal, Canada. More info about ELIXIR RDA group on the intranet.
Job board
ELIXIR Hub is looking for Junior Project Manager to support the management of EXCELERATE and CORBEL. There are two internship positions open at the ELIXIR Hub: the Bioschemas internship and the ELIXIR Beacons internship. ELIXIR.DE are looking for a Computer Science / Bioinformatics / cloud computing scientist at the Bioinformatics Department, Medizinisches Proteom-Center. Link to the advert in English is here
Upcoming events
The ELIXIR TeSS portal has a wide variety of inspirational events and courses organised by the ELIXIR Nodes. ELIXIR events
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
11-13 October 2017 | Paris, France
Joint Technical and Training Co-ordinators meeting
4-7 June 2018 | Berlin, Germany
ELIXIR All Hands meeting