Weekly news 20.08.2018

ELIXIR and The Carpentries initiative (Software Carpentry and Data Carpentry), have extended their collaboration in organising and delivering training in ELIXIR Nodes. The Carpentries will organise close to 20 Software and Data Carpentry training workshops across ELIXIR Nodes, and two Instructor Training workshops to train a number of specialised instructors.

The Training Platform is organising a workshop “Implementation of DMPs and Data Stewardship in practice” at ECCB 2018 in Athens on Tuesday 11 September at 17:30-19:00. This is organized by ELIXIR Luxembourg, ELIXIR SIovenia and ELIXIR Netherlands, and is part of the ELIXIR Implementations Study about Data stewardship in ELIXIR.

ELIXIR Finland organizes two ELIXIR-EXCELERATE courses: Single cell RNA-seq data analysis with Chipster (19 September) and Single cell RNA-seq data analysis using R and command line tools (21 September). You can also attend an international single cell symposium on 20 September 2018 in Helsinki too

Registrations are open to life scientists who want to learn Computing skills for reprod ucible research: Software Carpentry, on 24-25 October in Ghent, Belgium.

Registrations are open for the SIB course on “NGS - Quality control, alignment, visualization”, in Bern (Switzerland), on 2-3 October 2018.