Weekly Brief, 12 July 2021

NEWS! Towards better findability: Bioschemas meets Schema.org

Last week, Schema.org included five Bioschemas types for representing life sciences data in their latest release.
It includes types for providing high-level descriptions of genes, proteins, molecular entities, chemical substances and taxons.
Find out more

Statement of condolences for Professor Jaroslav Koa

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Prof Jaroslav Koa. He represented the Czech Republic in the ELIXIR Board for almost seven years and was a long-time chair of the ELIXIR-CZ Council.
Read our statement

Updates from Nodes

Get a travel fellowship to attend the [BC]2 Basel Computational Biology Conference

ELIXIR Switzerland provides five travel fellowships to ELIXIR members of up to 1,300 each to attend the conference

Participating in the conference is a prime opportunity to learn about cutting edge research in computational biology and bioinformatics and network with SIB members. Each travel fellowship will cover the travel expenses (e.g. flight and ground transportation, economy class) to the venue and the registration cost.
Deadline: 26 July 2021
Apply to get your travel fellowship

Fast and automated interpretation of single-cell RNA-seq data

in silico talks The latest in bioinformatics, by SIB Scientists

If you are a researcher using single-cell transcriptomics to study immunology-related problems, you are probably on the lookout for a way to characterise cell states efficiently.
SIB organised a talk with SIB Group Leader, Santiago Carmona, to present a powerful approach and a tool ProjecTILs using reference atlases.
Read more

Updates from Focus Groups

New guide and DwC extension

Publishing DNA-derived data through biodiversity data platforms

The guide explains the principles and approaches of exposing 'sequences with dates and coordinates' in the context of biodiversity data.
It covers choices of particular schemas and terms, common pitfalls and good practice, without going into platform-specific details. It will benefit anyone interested in better exposure of DNA-derived data through general biodiversity data platforms, including national biodiversity portals.
Discover the guide

Updates from other initiatives

ELIXIR consultation response to the European Health Data Space

We would like to share with you the first draft of the ELIXIR consultation response to the European Health Data Space. We invite you to provide feedback and would appreciate input especially from Heads of Nodes, Human Data Communities, as well as the Health Data Focus Group and Machine Learning Focus Group.

Please provide feedback directly into the Google document or to Arshiya Merchant (arshiya.merchant@elixir-europe.org) by Thursday, 22 July.

Upcoming ELIXIR events & webinars

ELIXIR Training Courses & Webinars

The ELIXIR TeSS portal has a variety of interesting events and courses organised by the ELIXIR Nodes. For more, visit TeSS portal

ELIXIR Events and Conferences

Innovation and SME Forum | Building the learning ecosystem of health: from data tracking to preventive medicine

13 September 2021 | At the [BC]2 Conference, Basel, Switzerland
(virtual participation also available)

UK Conference of bioinformatics and computational biology 2021

28-30 September 2021 | Virtual
You can also submit an abstract for a poster or short talk

BioHackathon Europe 2021

8-12 November 2021 | Hybrid Barcelona, Spain
Registration now open!

Job vacancies

All vacancies are also published on the ELIXIR website (also including those from industry). If you need our help communicating your new open positions, you can submit a job advertisement and it will automatically appear on our newsletters. Go to our vacancy page to submit a job

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