ELIXIR-coordinated B1MG project officially receives grant
The B1MG (Beyond One Million Genomes) project has officially been granted and starts this week. It receives funding from the European Unions Horizon 2020 programme under the grant agreement No 951724
Visit the website (under development) to find out more about the project
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ECCB 2020 Goes Virtual
September 2020 | Online
The Organisational Committee of the 19th European Conference on Computational Biology has decided to go virtual. Having in mind the health and safety of all attendees, the ECCB, in its traditional format, will be postponed to 2022 but there will be a fully virtual ECCB this September.
What you may have missed on May
We know is hard to follow all webinars and that you may have missed many relevant ones. For this reason, we have uploaded all our webinars and keynotes so that you can watch them when it suits you best.
This is what happened this May:
- ELIXIR Bioinformatics Industry Forum Series of Webinars
- ELIXIR Galaxy COVID-19 Series of Webinars
- All Hands Keynote on Archaic Genomics with Janet Kelso
Second All Hands Meeting Keynote
Electric Butterflies, from field to bytes and back
This Friday | 11 am12 pm CEST
With Dimitris Koureas, from the Naturalis Biodiversity Center, we will discover what a digital museum specimen is, how it can reunite biological information and how we can bring 1.5 billion specimens and hundreds of museums into the world of open science.
Rigster here COVID-19 Updates
OUR DEDICATED WEBSITE
We have created an ELIXIR COVID-19 webpage to list all ELIXIR services that support researchers working on SARS-CoV-2. The site will be updated periodically to display new resources.
You can track our advance on compiling COVID-19 projects by accessing our shared document that includes all services and initiatives from the Nodes.
This is an internal document. Please, do not share outside ELIXIR.
ELIXIR COVID-19 SLACK WORKSPACE
Please, use this to discuss and exchange ideas on SARS-CoV-2 research initiatives, consider collaboration opportunities across ELIXIR Nodes and share results of your work on COVID-19 with other ELIXIR members.
If you haven't joined the workspace yet, don't forget to connect with us on Slack or email Katharina Lauer to be part of the conversation
SELECTED NATIONAL INITIATIVES
ELIXIR DK establishes a feature in Bio.Tools
The Danish Node created a feature that allows scientists to search for the most suitable software for COVID-19 related work
ELIXIR CH provides an extensive list of resources for COVID-19 research
SIB offers its resources and expertise as part of the global effort to develop dedicated data services, analysis tools and training to fight COVID-19.
Tip of the Week
Meet the members of the Industry Advisory Committee (IAC)
Formed by experts from SMEs and large multinational companies, they offer us advice and feedback on our industry strategy
Updates from Nodes
ELIXIR Finland publishes article on searching breast cancer markers
The Finish Node has written an article on the use of machine learning for searching breast cancer markers. The goal is to estimate the increased cancer risk related to specific gene variants
ELIXIR PT | BioData releases new tool for single-cell RNA analysis
BioData has released D-cellerate, a straightforward web application written in R and based on the Seurat package. It provides a graphical interface to easily perform, store and produce reports.
Updates from Platforms
CINECA becomes new content provider to TeSS
The Training eSupport System (TeSS) acquires new content provider, CINECA.
What is the CINECA Project?
CINECA aims to deliver a federated, internationally interoperable infrastructure for data discovery and sharing of human genetic and phenotypic data. CINECA (Common Infrastructure for National Cohorts in Europe, Canada and Africa) is funded by the European Union Horizon 2020 programme and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
ELIXIR Training Platform invited to the first e-IRG Webinar
On the 25t of May, the Training Platform was invited to the e-IRG webinar on 'Future skills in the new European Research Area. Fotis Psomopoulos (ELIXIR-GR) presented, on behalf of the platform, and introduction to ELIXIR and discussed the necessary transferable digital skills in the life sciences.
Updates from Communities
Tomorrow's Webinar: Introduction to Galaxy and the Galaxy workflows for SARS-CoV-2 data analysis
2 June 2020 | 89.30 am CEST
Be part of this joint Galaxy Australia and ELIXIR-Galaxy webinar.
Meet the speakers:
- Anton Nekrutenko | Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Penn State University (USA) and co-founder of the Galaxy Project
- Sergei Pond | Professor of Biology, Institute for Genomics and Evolutionary Medicine, Temple University, US
- Frederik Coppens | Head of Node of ELIXIR Belgium and Co-Lead of the ELIXIR Galaxy Community
- Bjrn Grning | Technical Coordinator of ELIXIR Germany and Co-Lead of the ELIXIR Galaxy Community
Find out more on the Australian BioCommons website
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.
EBIF Series | Large scale cloud computing in the life sciences
23 June 2020 | Online
Deploying Web Services for COVID-19 Research in the de.NBI Cloud
25 June 2020 | Online
ELIXIR Events and Conferences
19th European Conference on Computational Biology
September 2020 | Online
ELIXIR BioHakacthon Europe
9-13 November 2020 | Barcelona, Spain Job vacancies
Job vacancies
All vacancies are also published on the ELIXIR website vacancies section (also including vacancies from industry). Submit vacancies from your Node or industry partners.
Data Management Usability Officer
VIB
Postdoctoral fellow in bioinformatics at the Biomedical Genomics Lab
Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) - part of ELIXIR-ES
Project Support Administrator
ELIXIR
Computer Engineer position - EuCanImage project
University of Barcelona (UB)
Call for postdoctoral researchers within the STARS COFUND
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS) - part of ELIXIR-ES
Updates from other initiatives
Molgenis/BBMRI infrastructure to speed up COVID-19 research
During the pandemic, the Molgenis/BBMRI is leveraging its main system, the Directory, to preserve valuable biological material complemented with detailed data for future research purposes. The Directory is actively collecting starting and ongoing COVID-19 related initiatives, and ultimately promoting collaboration and preventing fragmentation of research efforts.
Find more about the Directory here
We recommend X-omics series of online workshops
1830 June 2020 | Online
- 18 June | Data standards and multi-omics data integration
- 22 June | Linked data in practice: An RDF-based approach with SPARQLing-genomics
- 25 June | Showcases of multi-omics data integration
- 30 June | Pitch your own multi-omics project
Register here for this series of workshops
Find more information at the X-omics' news page