Bioinformatician/ Head Engineer
Oslo University Hospital is seeking to fill a vacant head engineer position in the Helse Sør-Øst funded bioinformatics core facility.
The core facility services the Oslo region and works in tight integration with the Norwegian Node of ELIXIR.
Head of Communications
SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (ELIXIR Switzerland) is seeking a Head of Communications to join their team in Lausanne.
For more information visit:
http://www.sib.swiss/about-us/careers/careers-at-sib/job/135-head-of-communications
ELIXIR Webinar: Process for the selection of ELIXIR Core Resources (1st webinar, October 2016)
Bioinformatics positions - various
Leiden University Medical Centre (ELIXIR-Netherlands) has the following positions available in the area of bioinformatics:
- Software Engineer / Teacher
- Software Engineer / DevOps Engineer
- NGS data analyst
- Semantic web developer
- Diagnostic pipeline developer in Metagenomics
- Multi-omics data analyst
Metrics discovery and implementation in life sciences
Biological communities work across a range of domains and use a variety metrics to measure and evaluate their activities and performance. Metrics can be used in training, project management, software development as well as in more specific tasks like benchmarking of bioinformatics analysis tools or evaluation of data resources in the life science.
ELIXIR Webinar - BioMAJ2Galaxy (Sept 2016)
Olivier Sallou (ELIXIR-France) presents a webinar on BioMAJ2Galaxy: automatic update of reference data in Galaxy using BioMAJ.
Implementation Study on Data Identification and Interoperability
This Implementation Study has established Identifiers.org as a stable ELIXIR system for uniform identifier resolution to major bioinformatics resources (with a focus on ELIXIR reference resources). The upgraded Identifiers.org API supports interoperability and identifier resolution for ELIXIR services, national programmes and external users.
ELIXIR – IMI OncoTrack scoping study on long-term data handling
The aim of this project was to deposit relevant subsets of data from the IMI OncoTrack project into a data discovery service in the European Genome-phenome Archive (EGA) or as part of other ELIXIR Node resources (e.g. for long-term hosting of TranSMART instances). It also assessed the cost and complexity of ex-post data sharing efforts for IMI translational research projects.
Technical and community development in preparation for scaling up of the ELIXIR Tools & Data Services Registry
The aim of this Implementation Study was to prepare for the start of the ELIXIR-EXCELERATE project and the anticipated scaling up of the ELIXIR Tools and Data Services Registry, both in terms of the content, functionality and the community behind it, certain urgent developments are required. These include technical development of the registry, preparations for a series of hackathons and publications following from these efforts.
The study has been completed, see the end report.