Hub updates
ELIXIR-EXCLERATE cited as an early success story in analysis of the Horizon 2020 Research Infrastructures programme published by EC (page 201).
Our cluster project CORBEL had mid-term review this week. The preliminary feedback was good and the data/interoperability work package - aligned with the Interoperability platform and led by Helen Parkinson and Carole Goble on behalf of ELIXIR was specifically highlighted by the external reviewer.
ELIXIR will have a dedicated session at the ISMB/ECCB conference in Prague on 25 July 2017. Detailed programme will be available soon.
ELIXIR will be presented at the Galaxy Community Conference this week in Montpellier, France.
A reminder that the first call for the Staff exchange programme between ELIXIR Nodes closes next Friday 30 June. See here for the call text and instruction to apply. Also read our news about the pilot collaboration between PDBe and Masaryk University (ELIXIR CZ).
The ELIXIR Annual report 2016 is now available on the ELIXIR website.
Node updates
ELIXIR UK published a paper in the ELIXIR F1000R channel on the ELIXIR-UK role in bioinformatics training at the national level and across ELIXIR. EMBL-EBI launched user survey about researcher's experiences using (or not using) EMBL-EBI's data resources. Read the latest news from the Tryggve project - a collaboration of nordic ELIXIR Nodes on sharing and exchanging sensitive human data (pdf). Another newsletter comes from the Netherlands - the June 2017 edition of the DTL newsletter.
Use Case updates
The Marine Metagenomics Use Case published a new paper in GigaScience proposing best practices and standards for metagenomics datasets. ELIXIR F1000R channel published a paper to present a community proposal to integrate proteomics activities in ELIXIR. It is an outcome of a community workshop hosted by ELIXIR Germany. Recording now available from webinar on CEDAR, Center for Expanded Data Annotation and Retrieval, part of the NIH Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) program presented last week by Prof. Mark A Musen (University of Stanford, USA) as part of the ELIXIR Webinar Series. More webinars to be announced shortly.
Platform updates
Read a new paper in the ELIXIR F1000R channel, proposing four simple practices for Open Source Software Development. You can endorse the recommendations via a dedicated website. The minutes from the Compute Platform face-to-face meeting held in Prague last week are available here.
Job board
VIB Bioinformatics Core (ELIXIR-Belgium) is seeking an ELIXIR Trainer in Data Science and Bioinformatics .
DTU (ELIXIR Denmark) is seeking a database architect and scientific computing programmer.
The University Medical Center Groningen (ELIXIR Netherlands) Genomics Coordination Center has openings for a PhD student or postdoc in Data Science in Health Bioinformatics, a Data Manager and a ICT system administrator who want to contribute to FAIR data and Personalized Health using exciting cohort, biobank and genome data with a.o. UMCG, BBMRI, CORBEL, LifeCycle, RD-connect, ELIXIR. The Institute of Biotechnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences has a Postdoctoral Position in Computation Biology available.
SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics is looking for a Chief Operating Officer to strengthen the team of the Vital-IT Competence Centre in Lausanne.
Upcoming events
See the ELIXIR TeSS portal for all events organised by ELIXIR Nodes. ELIXIR events
3-5 July 2017 | Cambridge, UK
EXCELERATE Train-the-Trainer in Clinical bioinformatics and best practices workshop
18-22 September 2017 | Rome, Italy
5th International Summer School/BYOD event: Rare Disease & Orphan Drug Registries