This week's highlights
5th BioHackathon Europe in November
The fifth Biohackathon Europe was held on 7-11 November 2022 in Paris, France. ELIXIR welcomed over 300 participants from around the world working collaboratively on 35 hacking projects covering a wide range of topics.
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Successful staff exchange between ELIXIR Germany and ELIXIR Italy
One of ELIXIR 2019 selected staff exchange projects has been successfully completed despite being affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Recordings of ELIXIR Outreach webinar with Latin America
In September, ELIXIR held the outreach webinar with Latin America during ECCB2022 focusing on opportunities for engagement in data management and training. Recordings of the webinar are now available online.
Session one | Session two
Recommended reads
An iterative and interdisciplinary categorisation process towards FAIRer digital resources for sensitive life-sciences data
An EOSC-Life paper
For life science infrastructures, sensitive data generate an additional layer of complexity. Cross-domain categorisation and discovery of digital resources related to sensitive data presents major interoperability challenges. To support this FAIRification process, a toolbox demonstrator aiming at support for discovery of digital objects related to sensitive data has been developed. The toolbox is based upon a categorisation system developed and harmonised across a cluster of 6 life science research infrastructures. Important next steps are a broad evaluation of the usability and user-friendliness of the toolbox, extension to more resources, broader adoption by different life-science communities, and a long-term vision for maintenance and sustainability.
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Why don't we share data and code? Perceived barriers and benefits to public archiving practices
A Proceeding of Royal Society
The biological sciences community is increasingly recognizing the value of open, reproducible and transparent research practices for science and society at large. Despite this recognition, many researchers fail to share their data and code publicly. This pattern may arise from knowledge barriers about how to archive data and code, concerns about its reuse, and misaligned career incentives. Here, the authors discuss barriers to data and code sharing that are relevant to many research fields, including how real and perceived barriers might be overcome or reframed in light of the benefits relative to costs. By elucidating these barriers and the contexts in which they arise, we can take steps to mitigate them and align our actions with the goals of open science, both as individual scientists and as a scientific community.
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Updates from Nodes
Microbiota in permafrost play an important role in climate change
This article from ELIXIR Finland Node is about how Senior Scientist Jenni Hultman and her colleagues sequenced millions of genomes from tundra soil microbiomes to find out which micro organisms are involved in greenhouse gas production and what their genes do.
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Save the date! Common Workflow Language 2023 conference
The Common Workflow Language 2023 conference will be held online on 27 February & 1 March 2023. There will be an in-person component of the CWL conference hosted by EMBL Heidelberg on 28 February & 1 March.
Submit your talk proposal by 16 January 2023
Presentation on the sustainability model for a data services infrastructure
Rob Hooft from ELIXIR-NL presented a sustainability model for a data services infrastructure to the Node coordinators. The presentation is now available on Zenodo.
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Updates from Focus Groups
16th Annual International Biocuration Conference
24-26 April 2023 | Padua, Italy
The 16th Annual International Biocuration Conference is taking place in Padua, Italy on 24-26 April 2023. Abstract submissions for presentations and posters are now open on Easychair and for workshop proposals here via Google forms until 23 December 2022.
More information
Updates from Other Initiatives
BOLD Europe Survey
Exciting plans for a new European BOLD instance need your input. If youd like to help steer the shape of European BOLD development, please fill in the short survey here by 16 December 2023.
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1+MG initiative genome dashboard
The 1+MG Initiative has released its genome dashboard. Explore the dashboard to know more about the number of genomic datasets across 1+MG Initiative in each country.
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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
PerMedCoE webinar series: Introducing PerMedCoE Building Blocks and Workflows to streamline biological analysis pipelines
15 December 2022 | 14-15 CET
SIB & ELIXIR CONVERGE course: Research Data Management and Data Management Plan
26 & 27 January 2023 | Lausanne, Switzerland
6th Advanced in silico Drug Design workshop/challenge 2023
30 January-2 February 2023 | Olomouc, Czech Republic
BioSB Series: Constraint-based modeling
13-17 February 2023 | Wageningen, the Netherlands
BioSB Series: Knowledge graphs in the life sciences
13-17 March 2023 | Wageningen, the Netherlands
ELIXIR Events and Conferences
ELIXIR All Hands 2023
5-8 June 2023 | Dublin, Ireland
Job vacancies
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Data Steward
Luxembourg National Data Platform (PNED)
Backend developer Java, Maven, Spring Boot (SILVA DB)
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Web Developer SILVA DB
DSMZ
Bioinformatician Natural Language Processing
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Senior Elixir Developer
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