Weekly news 17.09.2018

Greece is now full ELIXIR member, following the signature of the ELIXIR Consortium Agreement by Professor Kostas Fotakis, Alternate Minister of Research and Innovation.

The ESFRI roadmap for 2018 was launched this week in Vienna. ELIXIR continues on the roadmap as an ‘ESFRI landmark’. Several new projects have been added, including two in the Health and Food domain - METRO-FOOD and IBISBA - and one in the field of biodiversity - DISSCO - all of which could have some potential touching points with ELIXIR

The ELIXIR Webinars are back after the summer break! This Wednesday, the webinar will present the eLearning Platform developed and managed by ELIXIR Slovenia. 19 September 2018, 15:00 CEST.

ELIXIR Germany (de.NBI) is organising Tool-Training for Proteomics - a one day course where the Proteomics tools namely “PIA - Protein Inference Algorithms”, “PAA - Protein Array Analyzer” and "CalibraCurve" will be introduced.

Registrations are open for the SIB course on “Bioinformatics of long read sequencing”, in Zurich (Switzerland), on 8-9 November 2018.