This week's highlights
Update on Hub vacancies
Closing this week
Science/Technical Officer
Bioinformatics Tools & Training Deadline: 14 April (this Thursday)
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Science/Technical Officer
Life Science Communities & Open Science Deadline: 17 April (this Sunday)
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Closing in 2 weeks
External Relations Officer
Deadline: 24 April Find out more
Project Manager/Senior Project Coordinator
Deadline: 28 April. Find out more
Project Manager
Deadline: 28 April. Find out more There will be no Weekly Brief next Monday 18 April (Easter Monday)
Recommended reads
Complex Portal 2022: new curation frontiers
A BioHackathon 2020 paper
The Complex Portal is a manually curated, encyclopaedic database of macromolecular complexes with known function from a range of model organisms. It summarizes complex composition, topology and function along with links to a large range of domain-specific resources. Since the last update in 2019, we have produced a first draft complexome for Escherichia coli, maintained and updated that of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, added over 40 coronavirus complexes and increased the human complexome to over 1100 complexes. Community collaboration has expanded, for example by contributing to an analysis of putative transcription cofactors and providing data accessible to semantic web tools through Wikidata which is now populated with manually curated Complex Portal content through a new bot.
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Variomes: a high recall search engine to support the curation of genomic variants
An ELIXIR Data Platform paper
Advances in personalized medicine make it possible to select a treatment targeting specific tumor variants. Indeed, based on the tumors molecular profile and clinical information such as the diagnosis, it is easier to propose the treatment likely to give a favorable response. Currently, the identification and interpretation of clinically actionable variants is a critical bottleneck, relying on manual curation. We assess the search effectiveness of the system using three different experimental settings: literature triage; variant prioritization and comparison of Variomes with LitVar. Variomes retrieves on average 21.3% more articles than LitVar and returns the same number of results or more results than LitVar for 90% of the queries when tested on a set of 803 queries, establishing a new search baseline.
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Updates from Nodes
Meeting invite: Handling pandemic omics data in the Nordics
18-19 May (9-13:00 CET) | Virtual
A two-day online meeting organised by ELIXIR Norway, ELIXIR Estonia, and SciLifeLab Data Centre to bring perspectives on Nordic infrastructures and approaches used to handle SARS-Cov-2 sequencing data.
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Meeting invite: Women in Data Science 2022 - Perspectives from industry and academia
18 May (15-17:30 CET) | Virtual
Bayer AG, de.NBI & ELIXIR Germany and Bioinfo4Women invite you to the third event in the series.
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Meeting invite: Benelux Metabolomics Days 2022
19-20 May | Hybrid - Utrecht, the Netherlands
Come for an overview of metabolomics research in the Benelux, excellent international speakers, opportunities to interact with colleagues, a conference dinner and poster sessions.
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Help improve STRING, a key bioinformatics resource for protein-protein interaction
Calling all users of the SIB Resource STRINGdb for Protein-Protein Interaction Networks Functional Enrichment Analysis: to maintain improvements and ensure it suits your needs, please take this *5 min* user survey.
Updates from Communities
Meeting invite: the future of metabolomics in ELIXIR 2024-2028
23/24 June (half days) | Hybrid - Valencia, Spain
The ELIXIR Metabolomics Community is holding a F2F/hybrid meeting immediately after the International Metabolomics Society Conference.
Up to two people (seasoned PIs and more junior researchers) per ELIXIR Node can be supported (flight, one night accommodation). Selection is based on your motivation for participation in the meeting section on the registration form (deadline 1 May).
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Synthetic data user? Help the ELIXIR Machine Learning Focus Group
Contribute to a short survey to identify how the bioinformatics community use synthetic data in the context of Machine Learning.
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Updates from other initiatives
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EMBL-EBI website - user feedback testing, can you help?
User feedback is requested to improve the EMBL-EBI website. Please contact Nikiforos Karamanis to arrange a short video call. Thank you!
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
Galaxy introduction for life scientists
27 April 2022 | Lausanne, Switzerland
Metabolomics and integrative omics: from data production to analysis
28-29 April 2022 | Bari, Italy
Gentle hands-on introduction to Python programming
4,11,18 May 2022 | Virtual
Nordic train-the-trainer course
10-13 May 2022 (half days)| Virtual | Deadline to apply: 3 April
10th RepeatExplorer workshop on the application of NGS to repetitive DNA
24-26 May 2022 | esk Budjovice, Czech Republic
3rd hands-on computational enzyme design workshop
30 May - 1 June 2022 | Virtual
Functional exploration of genetic variants in cardiac diseases
14-15 June | Lyon, France | Apply by 1 May
Summer school on genetic epidemiology
29 June - 2 July 2022 | Davos, Switzerland
ELIXIR Events and Conferences
Compute Platform meeting
25-26 April 2022| Hotel Berlin, Berlin
Emerging systems biology Community meeting
12-13 April 2022 | Hybrid - Amsterdam, Netherlands | 12:00-14:00 CET
FAIRplus Innovation and SME forum 2022
17 May 2022 | Hybrid - Berlin, Germany
ELIXIR All Hands meeting 2022
7-10 June 2022 | Amsterdam, Netherlands
BioHackathon Europe
7-11 November 2022 | Paris, France
Job vacancies
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Program Manager - Life Science Alliance
European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
External Relations Officer
ELIXIR Hub
Science / Technical Officer - Life Science Communities & Open Science
Elixir
Bioinformatics Data Analyst (RE1)
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)