Weekly news 14.10.2019

Take a look at our news release, ELIXIR as a global actor in bioinformatics training, to find out about how the ELIXIR Training Platform is supporting training across the world. 

Can you can help drive the open source software community and make a positive contribution by taking part in Hacktoberfest 2019? Anyone and everyone is welcome to participate!

The final report of the project Towards a community-endorsed data steward profession for life science research, funded by ZonMw, DTL/ELIXIR-NL, UMC Groningen, Radboud University and UMC Utrecht is out now. Full details on the project can be found on the Zenodo website.

ELIXIR Finland have published a new case study on using AI for health risk assessments, with a specific focus on cardiovascular disease, presenting work by Andrea Ganna at FIMM.

EJP-RD Workshop and Hackathon: Molecular pathways for rare diseases - (FAIR) data analysis
26 - 29 November 2019 | Maastricht, Netherlands

ELIXIR Innovation and SME Forum: Data management in the life sciences - a driver for innovation
27 - 28 November 2019 | Milan, Italy

Gentle hands-on introduction to Python programming
9 - 10 January 2019 | Leuven, Belgium