Weekly Brief, 11 October 2021

This week's highlights

WORKSHOP: Getting started with impact evaluation

15 November 2021 | Virtual

You will be equipped with tools, tips and tricks to get started with impact evaluation.

This is the 4th workshop of the ELIXIR-CONVERGE Workshop Series. We particularly encourage registrations from participants of the previous workshops and those undertaking case studies as part of the ELIXIR-funded Strategic Implementation Study on Impact but all are welcome.

Read more and apply today

Join the next event in the 3D-Bioinfo Community webinar series

19 October 2021 | 15:00 CEST
Speakers Vincent Zoete and Ute Rhrig from SIB will present their work on developing models for protein-ligand interactions and the creation of reliable benchmark sets for structure-based drug design.

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Updates from Communities

Submit your abstract & register for the 3D-Bioinfo Annual meeting

2-4 November 2021 | 13:00-17:00 CET | Virtual

Abstract deadline this Wednesday 13 October!

Registration is now open for the 3D-Bioinfo Community's annual meeting.

We are specifically still looking for abstracts of possible oral presentations presenting recent advances in the benchmarking and assessment of structure-based drug design algorithms and programs, as well as their automation. See Activity 3 on the 3D BioInfo Community page

  • EXTENDED - 13 October: Poster and talk abstract deadline
  • 31 October: Registration deadline

Find out more and register

Updates from Platforms

Register for the Interoperability Platform Joint meeting

23-25 November 2021 | Padova, Italy and virtually
Registration deadline 31 October 2021

This hybrid meeting will highlight areas of collaboration, plan the future tasks, prepare for 2022-23 deliverables, and discuss the strategic planning of the 2024-28 Scientific Programme.

There is a limit of 30 participants for in-person participation on a first-come-first-serve basis, with no limit on virtual participation. Please contact Sirarat Sarntivijai for any questions.

Read the programme and register (login required)

Updates from Focus Groups

ML Focus Group Nature Methods paper highlighted in this month's editorial.

'[..]communities are teaming up to develop solutions. In this months special issue, two independent groups of researchers have proposed recommendations and guidelines for reporting machine learning approaches used in the life sciences. The DOME recommendations devised by Walsh et al. target four major aspects when reporting supervised machine learning applications: data, optimization, model and evaluation. A machine learning reporting checklist consisting of questions to the author is designed to assist in writing and reviewing machine learning-related papers.'
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Updates from Nodes

ELIXIR-DE releases new brochure

Amendment with correct link

The brochure outlines the main tasks and reports on the latest developments of the German Node.
Read the brochure

A plethora of publications from ELIXIR-NL on making rare disease data FAIR

COVID-19 Data and code reuse competition

Competition Q&A: 15 October 2021 | 09:30 - 11:30
Would you like to contribute to the COVID-19 research efforts? The Swedish COVID-19 Data Portal is arranging a competition for small research projects that reuse publicly available data and/or code. The deadline is 5 December 2021.

Three winning projects will be awarded support from the SciLifeLab Data Centre to promote the project and/or to enable follow-up work.

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Updates from Nodes

Have you heard of the EOSC-Life remote training series?

22 October 2021 | 11:00 - 12:00 CET
The EOSC-Life remote training series continues on Friday 22nd October 2021. Helena Rasche (ELIXIR-NL) will present The evolution of a Galaxy project for running hybrid events.

Find all past and future events

A new webinar series from PerMedCoE

Starting 21 October 2021 | 15:00 - 16:00 CEST
Over the next few years we will bring you webinars on topics such as simulating cell networks (metabolic, signalling or gene regulation), cell-cell interactions, workflows and data privacy.

The next webinar is on 2 October on the Analysis of huge metabolic models with COBREXA.jl
See all upcoming webinars

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

3D-Bioinfo Community webinar: Development of models for protein-ligand interactions

19 October 2021 | Virtual

SIB course: Deep Learning for Life Sciences - fundamentals and applications
25 November 2021 | Virtual

Webinar: MDAnalysis: interoperable analysis of biomolecular simulations in Python
12 October 2021 | 16:00 CEST

ELIXIR Events and Conferences

BioHackathon Europe 2021

8-12 November 2021 | Hybrid Barcelona, Spain
Workshop: Getting started with impact evaluation
15 Novemeber 2021 | Virtual

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

ELIXIR Industry Officer

ELIXIR

Bioinformatician at the Biocomputing Unit

National Center of Biotechnology (CNB-CSIC), part of INB/ELIXIR-ES