Weekly Brief, 10 January 2022

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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

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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