Hub updates
If you've missed the deadline for the ECCB 2016 ELIXIR Application track, you can still submit your abstract to the general Application track at ECCB 2016. The deadline is next Monday, 16 May 2016.
Node updates
ELIXIR Spain's Centro Nacional de Anu00e1lisis Genu00f3mico (CNAG) has been awarded ISO 17025:2005 certificate for its Next Generation Sequencing Platform. EMBL-EBI releases version 3 of its Ontology Lookup Service (OLS): www.ebi.ac.uk/ols
Updates from platforms
A Data Nodes Workshop in Prague in April 2016 marked the launch of ELIXIR's Data Nodes Network. The focus of the network for 2016 will be local EGA and Data Management Plans and resource mapping. de.NBI, the German Network for Bioinformatics Infrastructure is organising a Summer School: From Big Data to Big Insights for advanced PhD students or post-docs. 26 - 30 September 2016, Wadern, Germany.
ELIXIR Finland organises two ELIXIR-EXCELERATE workshops in Espoo. The first workshop on variant analysis takes place on 13-15 June; the second one follows immediately after on 16-17 June and is on Variant analysis with GTA.
Job board
The ELIXIR Hub is seeking a Grant Support Officer to support pre- and post-award administrative aspects of ELIXIR grants.
The Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) is seeking a system administrator for their prospective ELIXIR Node.
EMBL-EBI is seeking an E-Infrastructure Integration Specialist to work on ELIXIR related activities within the EBI Technical Services team.
The University of Manchester (ELIXIR-UK) is seeking a Senior Research Software Engineer to co-ordinate identifier and interoperability efforts within the CORBEL project.
The Dutch Techcentre for Life Science (DTL, ELIXIR Netherlands) is seeking two Software Engineers - Linked Data.
SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics is seeking a Communications Manager and project manager to join their team.
Upcoming events
ELIXIR Technical events
18-20 May 2016 | Paris, France
Technical Hackathon: Tools, Workflows and Workbenches
30 June - 1 July 2016 | Hinxton, UK
ELIXIR-GA4GH Beacon Security Workshop
ELIXIR Industry events
12-13 May 2016 | Oslo, Norway
ELIXIR Innovation and SME Forum: Data-driven innovation in the aquaculture and marine industries
Meetings and Conferences organised by ELIXIR Nodes
10-13 May 2016 | Valencia, SpainXIII Symposium on Bioinformatics
25-26 Aug 2016 | Odense, Denmark.
Annual Danish Bioinformatics Conference.
ELIXIR related Workshops and Courses organised by ELIXIR Nodes
9-11 May 2016 | Amsterdam, NetherlandsIn silico life: constraint-based modelling at genome scale
23-25 May 2016 | Espoo, Finland
Using clouds and VMs in bioinformatics training
23-27 May 2016 | Delft, Netherlands
Course: Algorithms for Biological Networks (4th edition)
24 May 2016 | Geneva, Switzerland
First Steps with UNIX in Life Sciences
29 May - 2 June 2016 | Leukerbad, Switzerland
Spring School Bioinformatics and Population Genomics
7-10 June 2016 | Naples, Italy
RNA-Seq data analysis workshop
20-21 June 2016, Lausanne, Switzerland
Software Carpentry Workshop
23-24 June 2016 | Basel, Switzerland
Software Carpentry Workshop