Hub updates
Olivier Sallou (ELIXIR-France) will present a webinar on BioMAJ2Galaxy: automatic update of reference data in Galaxy using BioMAJ as part of the ELIXIR Webinar Series, this Wednesday at 15.00 CEST.
The recording from the webinar on BioSamples and plans for GA4GH metadata API, presented by Tony Burdett (EMBL-EBI) last week as part of the ELIXIR Webinar Series is now available via ELIXIR website.
Node updates
What was the buzz at ECCB 2016? One thing is clear: "The ELIXIR meetings have been livelier and more interactive than ever!" Read the full report on DTL's website.
G20 endorses the FAIR principles. Read more on it from the Dutch Tech Centre for Life Sciences. ELIXIR Slovenia held its launch event on 20 September in Ljubljana. Read more in an article in the Slovenia Times.
Job board
The ELIXIR Hub is seeking a Data Coordinator to join the team at Hinxton.
ELIXIR Luxembourg is seeking a Science Manager and Software Developer for web-based translational medicine knowledge management and analysis tools.
ELIXIR France is seeking a post doc bioinformatician in genome assembly and annotation.
Upcoming events
ELIXIR related Workshops and Courses organised by ELIXIR Nodes
Swiss German Galaxy Tour/Day 201625-26 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
1-3 November 2016 | Hinxton, UK
Exploring biological sequence data - training course
1-3 November 2016 | Maastricht, Netherlands
BYOD event on WikiPathways, nanopub.org, and Rett Syndrome
31 Oct - 3 Nov 2016 | Heraklion, Crete
Variant Effect Prediction Training Course
2-4 November 2016 | Oeiras, Portugal
Analysis of B and T cell repertoires from high-throughput sequencing data using bioinformatics workflows
7-8 November 2016 | Harpenden, UK
ELIXIR-UK All-Hands meeting
7-8 November 2016 | Brussels, Belgium
ELIXIR Belgium Data Workshop
7-9 November 2016 | Heidelberg, Germany
International de.NBI Symposium, "Bioinformatics for Human Health and Disease"
21-25 November 2016 | Nijmegen, Netherlands
Comparative Genomics: from evolution to function (3rd edition)
28 Nov - 1 Dec 2016 | Hinxton, UK
Exploring genomic variation with high throughput sequencing data
28 Nov - 2 Dec 2016 | Roscoff, France
Metabolomics course in Galaxy Infrastructure