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This week's highlights
Provide your input for the ELIXIR 2024-28 Scientific Programme
We are hosting several consultation events for the next ELIXIR Scientific Programme. The full schedule is available on the website and all are welcome to join and help shape the future work of ELIXIR.
Scientific Programme consultation events
A reminder to submit content for the ELIXIR Annual Report 2021
Content submission deadline 31 January 2022 Thank you to everyone who has already submitted content for the ELIXIR Annual Report 2021. This is a reminder that the deadline for submission is 31 January. All Community, Node and Platform leadership should have received an email regarding content requirements on the 7 December. The guidance documents can also be found here:
Any questions please contact both erin.haskell@elixir-europe.org, andrew.smith@elixir-europe.org
Recommended reads
Computational strategies for single-cell multi-omics integration
An ELIXIR Finland review paper
Single-cell omics technologies are currently solving biological and medical problems that earlier have remained elusive, such as discovery of new cell types, cellular differentiation trajectories and communication networks across cells and tissues. In this review, we first introduce recent developments in single-cell multi-omics in general and then focus on the available data integration strategies.
Read more...
Detecting SARS-CoV-2 lineages and mutational load in municipal wastewater; a use-case in the metropolitan area of Thessaloniki, Greece
An ELIXIR Greece paper
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic represents an unprecedented global crisis necessitating novel approaches for, amongst others, early detection of emerging variants relating to the evolution and spread of the virus. Recently, the detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater has emerged as a useful tool to monitor the prevalence of the virus in the community. Here, we propose a novel methodology, called lineagespot, for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 lineages in wastewater samples using next-generation sequencing.
Read more...
Updates from Communities
Upcoming Community meetings and workshops
Get the latest updates, engage with and learn about and from ELIXIR Communities. Register to one (or all!) of the upcoming meetings. You will need to be logged into the ELIXIR intranet:
- Intrinsically Disordered Proteins (IDP) Community meeting 25 January | 14:30 - 16:30 CET
- IDP function and interoperability workshop 26 January | 14:00 - 18:00 CET
- Emerging Systems Biology Community White Paper writing workshop 8 February | 14:00 - 17:00 CET
- Microbial Biotechnology Community meeting 10 February | 14:00 - 17:00 CET
Updates from Nodes
Join the next Data Stewards Interest Group meeting
25 January | 12:45-15:30 CET
This meeting will be chaired by Heleri Inno and Priit Adler from ELIXIR-Estonia. Everybody is welcome to join.
View the agenda and register
New FAIRplus eTOX use case - recipe developed at ELIXIR Netherlands
FAIRplus have published the eTOX use case where a ELIXIR-NL-developed recipe is used to calculate InChI and InChIKeys and validate the chemical structures in the input.
View the eTOX use case
Updates from other initiatives
Two Beacon training events coming up
CINECA and GA4GH are jointly hosting two virtual training sessions for those wanting to get to grips with the GA4GH Beacons and learn about new functionality.
- Lighting a Beacon: training for (future) implementers 15 February | 15:00-17:30 CET | Virtual
- Browsing genomes: a Beacon training for users 17 February | 15:30-17:00 CET | Virtual
View all upcoming CINECA events
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-CH: Immunoinformatics
25-26 January 2022 | Muttenz, Switzerland
CINECA-GA4GH Beacon series: Lighting a Beacon: training for (future) implementers
15 February | 15:30 - 17:30 CET | Virtual
CINECA-GA4GH Beacon series: Browsing genomes: a Beacon training for users
17 February | 15:30 - 17:00 CET | Virtual
ELIXIR Events and Conferences
Getting started with impact evaluation
21 January 2022 | 10:00 CET
Intrinsically Disordered Proteins (IDP) Community meeting
25 January | 14:30 - 16:30 CET
IDP function and interoperability workshop
26 January | 14:00 - 18:00 CET
ELIXIR-CONVERGE SIB workshop: Research Data Management and Data Management Plan
27-28 January 2022| Lausanne, Switzerland
Emerging Systems Biology Community: white paper writing workshop
8 February | 14:00 - 17:00 CET
Microbial Biotechnology Community meeting
10 February | 14:00 - 17:00 CET
ELIXIR All Hands meeting 2022
7-10 June 2022 | Amsterdam, Netherlands
Job vacancies
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Postdoc within Bioinformatics
University of Bergen / Earth Biogenome Project Norway
Full Stack Software Engineer
Rothamsted Research
Postdoc positions in biocatalysis at DTU Biosustain
DTU Biosustain
Senior expert at data science excellence center in medical imaging
CMIV/AIDA/NBIS/BIGPICTURE