Weekly Brief, 12 April 2021

Submit an abstract for our ecosystem of health SME Forum

Deadline 16 April!

Don't miss your opportunity to present at this ELIXIR Innovation and SME Forum, organised by SIB at the [BC]2 Basel Computational Biology Conference. Deadline for abstracts is this Friday (16 April) and the event will take place 13 September.

Event information and abstract submission

Desired topics include:

Health data collection technologies (hardware/software)
Data management
Data integration & analysis
Converting learnings into healthcare guidelines/policies.

We're hiring at the Hub

ELIXIR Training Coordinator
Deadline 20 April
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Save the date!

On the 25 May we will be hosting a Communications workshop as part of the ELIXIR-CONVERGE Workshop series. Details and registration to be circulated shortly.
Recommended reads of the week

Recommendations for the FAIRification of genomics track metadata

New preprint in the ELIXIR F1000 Many types of data from genomic analyses can be represented as genomic tracks, i.e.features linked to the genomic coordinates of a reference genome. We propose to advance the application of FAIR data principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) to produce searchable metadata for genomic tracks. We here provide a first iteration of a draft standard for genomic track metadata, as well as the accompanying software ecosystem.

Relative Information Gain: Shannon entropy-based measure of the relative structural conservation in RNA alignments

Publication from ELIXIR-IT and CINECA

RNA secondary structure models are usually characterized by an encoding that depicts structural information of the molecule through string representations or graphs. In this work, we provide a generalization of the BEAR encoding (a context-aware structural encoding we previously developed) by expanding the set of alignments used for the construction of substitution matrices.

Continue reading... Updates from Nodes

GA4GH passport is the glue between the researcher, data and computing

Mikael Linden from CSC at ELIXIR Finland has published a blog with CINECA project about how data access is managed with the GA4GH passport.

Call for abstracts for the BioSB 2021 conference

15-16 June 2021

You are invited to submit an abstract to the Dutch Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Conference. The conference will also host a dedicated ELIXIR-NL track.
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Presentations from the Helis FAIR Data Stewardship course

For those who missed the 6 day Helis FAIR Data stewardship course, the organisers have made the presentations available via Xenodo.
Take a look

Join the 5th Anniversary of ELIXIR Portugal celebrations

5 May 2021 | 11:30-17:00 CEST | Online
To celebrate 5 years of excellence, ELIXIR Portugal has decided to organise a dedicated day at the 10th Edition of the Bioinformatics Open Days to showcase the achievements and foster a discussion regarding the emerging fields in bioinformatics and data management.
Event details and registration

Want to broaden your bioinformatics culture? Discover the SIB Remarkable Outputs 2020

This shortlist of achievements by some of the 800 scientists at the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics is put together every year to enable the community to stay abreast of the latest advances and bright ideas emerging in the field. Discover the shortlist of 2020, from standardized images of cells, to deep learning applied to protein function mapping!
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Updates from Platforms

APAeval Challenge at the RNA society meeting

25 May - 5 June 2021 iRNA COSI are organising a hackathon to coincide with the 2021 RNA Society Meeting. This will be a community effort to evaluate computational methods for the detection and quantification of poly(A) sites and the estimation of their differential usage across RNA-seq samples.
Event details and registration Updates from Communities

Galaxy launches new webinar series 'Galaxy resources for...'

The first webinar in the series is Galaxy Resources for Researchers and takes place this Wednesday 14 April at 16:00 CEST.
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Join the Galaxy Papercuts CoFest

15 April 2021 | 10:00 CEST Paper cuts are annoying but easy to fix bugs. Paper cuts CoFests are virtual, global, day-long events that improve the Galaxy ecosystem by addressing these issues, and by onboarding new contributors in the Galaxy community.
Read more Updates from other initiatives

EOSC-Life debates at the RDA House of Commons

Carole Goble and Claudia Alen Amaro will be representing EOSC-Life in this debate among the cluster projects. Registration is free
Read more

Upcoming ELIXIR events and webinars

ELIXIR Training Courses & Webinars

The ELIXIR TeSS portal has a variety of interesting events and courses organised by the ELIXIR Nodes. A link off to the TeSS portal

ELIXIR Webinar: Genetic Discrimination Observatory

29 April 2021 | 17:00 CEST
ELIXIR Webinar: Towards professionalising data stewardship

18 May 2021 | 15:00 CEST
Radboud Summer School 2021: Integrative X-omics Analyses Empowering Personalised Healthcare

5-9 July 2021 | Online

ELIXIR Events and Conferences

Innovation and SME Forum: Building the learning ecosystem of health: from data tracking to preventive medicine

Abstract deadline 16 April
1315 September 2021 | Online

Job vacancies

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