Announcements

Canadian Bioinformatics Helpdesk Launched

Compute Canada has launched the Canadian Bioinformatics Helpdesk.This online community forum is a free service that aims to provide support for the national bioinformatics community with bioinformatics experts from across the country - using its forum, training and education workshops, and…

Summer Work Learn Position - Advanced Research Computing (ARC)

Come join our team!  UBC Advanced Research Computing (ARC) is hiring a Student Assistant for the Summer term under the UBC Work Learn Program. Please see Job ID 848993 on the CareersOnline website.  UBC ARC is a joint initiative of the Vice President Research Office…

CANARIE - funding programs for research software

October 24, 2017 11:00AM - 1:00PM Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, Dodson Room (Map) Refreshments will be provided REGISTER HERE CANARIE strengthens Canadian leadership in science and technology by delivering digital infrastructure to support world-class research that directly…

2018 Resource Allocation Competition (RAC) Details and Info Session

Date: Wednesday, October 11 ( 9am-10.30am PDT)  Location: 112A, 2386 East Mall, Vancouver, BC ( Gerald McGavin Building) // Online: Register to Attend ( connection instructions will be emailed to all RSVPs)  Compute Canada is now accepting applications for the annual Resource…

Open Scholarship Day and Open Science Framework (OSF)

Date: Tuesday, September 29th, 2017 (9am-4pm) Location: Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, Lillooet Room 301  “Open scholarship, which encompasses open access, open data, open educational resources, and all other forms of openness in the scholarly and research environment, is…

ARC - SBC DRAGEN Collaboration

The SBC (and The Pharm Sci Seq Centre which preceded it) has, for the past 3 years, provided client-first, personalized sequencing services to UBC researchers, as well as their collaborators across Canada and Internationally. We recently completed sequencing several hundred exomes and in 2016 will…

Digital Storytelling

  Digital Storytelling using Twine February 6, 2017 1:30pm-4:30pm SFU Vancouver (Harbour Centre, 1520) Registration: http://www.lib.sfu.ca/help/publish/dh/31927 Whether you use Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter, or Wordpress, how you share your stories is just as important as what you…

Call for Speakers - Fall 2016 Pacific Northwest Data Curators (PNWDC) Meet-up

This year, the PNWDC meet-up will be held in Vancouver, British Columbia on Thursday, November 10th at Simon Fraser University's Vancouver campus. As has been the case in the past, we hope to organise a fantastic day of programming with invited guests, lighting talks, formal…

Compute Canada Is Launching an Exciting New Visualization Challenge This Fall - Visualize This.

Participants will visualize an Earth Sciences dataset covering the world's oceans. The dataset will be available for download from October 1-31, with submissions due by midnight Eastern time on October 31. Participants from all science fields are encouraged to enter. Submissions will be…

New Digging into Data Challenge Announced