Weekly Brief, 12 June 2023

This week's highlights

Thank you for joining us in Dublin!

Thank you to all that attended, spoke at and engaged with the ELIXIR All Hands 2023. It was great to see everyone having lively discussions in person. Please upload your slides and presentations to the F1000 ELIXIR community

We look forward to meeting you all again next year in Uppsala, Sweden!

Provide your feedback on the 2019-2023 ELIXIR Scientific Programme

Deadline: 23 June 2023

During the ELIXIR All Hands Meeting last week, we ask our participants to provide feedback on the 2019-2023 ELIXIR Scientific Programme. The deadline for the Menti has been extended and all comments are welcome.

Provide your feedback

BioHackathon registration opens

30 October - 3 November 2023 | Campus Belloch, Barcelona, Spain

The BioHackathon Europe brings together bioinformaticians from around the world offering an intense week of hacking on diverse and exciting projects. This year, there are 35 accepted projects and all project details can be found on the BioHackathon website.

More information and registration

Janet Thornton retires: a pioneer in structural bioinformatics

Professor Dame Janet Thornton is one of the worlds pioneers in structural bioinformatics. In recognition of Janet Thorntons retirement, EMBL-EBI looks back at some of her biggest accomplishments in shaping the field of bioinformatics, including leading the establishment of ELIXIR.

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ELIXIR-CONVERGE video: The why of research data management

Aimed at raising principal investigator awareness of data management, the 5-minute video produced by ELIXIR-COVERGE WP2 uses cartoons to provide guidance on the key steps in research data management.

Recommended reads

Evolutionary Aspects of Selenium Binding Protein (SBP)

An ELIXIR-GR paper

Selenium-binding proteins represent a ubiquitous protein family and recently SBP1 was described as a new stress response regulator in plants. SBP1 has been characterized as a methanethiol oxidase. In mammals, it is involved in the regulation of anti-carcinogenic growth and progression as well as reduction/oxidation modulation and detoxification. In this work, the authors delineate the functional potential of certain motifs of SBP in the context of evolutionary relationships. The results demonstrate the emergence of SBP from bacteria and most likely as a methanethiol oxidase.

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Resources and tools for rare disease variant interpretation

An ELIXIR-IT paper

Collectively, rare genetic disorders affect a substantial portion of the world's population. In most cases, those affected face difficulties in receiving a clinical diagnosis and genetic characterization. The understanding of the molecular mechanisms of these diseases and the development of therapeutic treatments for patients are also challenging. In this review, the authors highlight the most relevant online resources and computational tools for genome interpretation that can enhance the diagnosis, clinical management, and development of treatments for rare disorders.

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Updates from Nodes

Dmytro Fishman awarded Estonian accolade

Congratulations to Dmytro Fishman, from ELIXIR Estonia, who has received the Young IT Scientist Award of the Cultural Foundation of the President of the Republic for his work on training artificial intelligence models to analyse biomedical imaging data.

Find out more

Bringing meaning to biological data: knowledge graphs meet ChatGPT

SIBs Knowledge Representation unit has been investigated whether technologies, such as ChatGPT, can support life science researchers in exploring data they are not familiar with. SIBs leading open databases and software tools show the potential of conversational AI to describe datasets and explain complex queries across datasets.

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Updates from Communities

Register for the Emerging Microbiome/Marine Metagenomics Community meeting

12-13 September 2023 | Hybrid - Barcelona, Spain
Registration deadline: 17 August (in person) | 12 September (online)

The Emerging Microbiome/Marine Metagenomics Community will hold its F2F/hybrid Meeting in September. The meeting is held back to back with the Biodiversity Community and focuses on the final touches of the Community white paper and first ideas of upcoming Community activities. There will be time for updates, presentations, progress reports and discussions. A part of the meeting will be dedicated to the 2024-2028 Scientific Programme and the Community's possible role and activities.

Register now

Provide your feedback on the emerging Microbiome Community White Paper

Deadline: 11 August 2023

The emerging ELIXR Microbiome Community is presenting its White Paper draft for consultation and feedback. Please add your comments directly to the pdf document or send to clare.garrard [at] elixir-europe.org (Clare Garrard)

Read the white paper draft

Register for the Biodiversity Community F2F & Implementation Study meeting

13-15 September 2023 | Hybrid - Barcelona, Spain
Registration deadline: 17 August (in person) | 12 September (online)

The Biodiversity Community will hold its F2F/hybrid meeting in September. The meeting is held back to back with the emerging Microbiome Community (hosting one joint session) and links the Community F2F with an Implementation Study meeting. There will be time for updates, presentations, progress reports and discussions. A part of the meeting will be dedicated to the 2024-2028 Scientific Programme and the Community's possible role and activities.

Register now

ELIXIR Single Cell Omics Community: Call for new co-lead

Deadline: 7 August 2023

The ELIXIR Single Cell Omics Community is looking for one new co-lead to join the Community leadership team (Eija Korpelainen & Naveed Ishaque). Candidates should submit a short statement of their background and what they believe they will bring to the role.

A big thank you to Paulo Czarnewski for his work as a co-lead and we wish him all the best as he moves to a new role.

For any questions or nominations, please contact clare.garrard [at] elixir-europe.org (Clare Garrard)

More information

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 Events and Conferences

IDP Community F2F/hybrid Meeting
3-4 July 2023 | Hybrid - Bratislava, Slovakia

Emerging Microbiome/Marine Metagenomics Community meeting
12-13 September 2023 | Hybrid - Barcelona, Spain

Biodiversity Community F2F & Implementation Study meeting
13-15 September 2023 | Hybrid - Barcelona, Spain

BioHackathon Europe 2023
30 October - 3 November 2023 | Barcelona, Spain

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

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