This week's highlights
ELIXIR-CONVERGE receives second uplift for COVID-19 variant surveillance
The second ELIXIR-CONVERGE amendment has just been signed by the European Commission, backdated to 1 April 2021.
Aitana Lebrand (SIB) and Nils P Willassen (UiT) co-lead the new WP9 to mobilise viral genomes from national sequencing efforts to offer true open data resources for surveilling COVID-19 variants.
Celebrating three years of the Data Stewardship Wizard
The Data Stewardship Wizard (DSW) celebrates three years since the first version1.0 was released! The origins of the DSW however started way back in 2012. Find out how this data management tool grew from a mind-map & questionnaire into an internationally recognised gold-standard for data stewardship.
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Join us at the 3D-bioinfo webinar tomorrow!
14 December 2021 | 15:00 CET Join the ELIXIR 3D-Bioinfo Community to explore the theme of 'Nucleic Acid Tools: Progress and further plans':
- Marta Szachniuk, Interlaces and lassos in 3D RNA models'
- Zhichao Miao, RNA Puzzles on the path to improve
reliability of RNA structure predictions - Ji ern, New tools available to annotate and validate nucleic acids at DNATCO
Getting started with impact evaluation - second edition workshop
21 January 2022 | 10:00 CET
Given the huge success of our first workshop on impact evaluation we are re-running the event and adapting to to open it up to a larger audience.
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New ESFRI 2021 roadmap published
European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI), has published the latest update to its roadmap. ELIXIR remains a landmark ESFRI. Eleven new ESFRIs have been added to the 2021 roadmap including eBrains (neuroscience) and EIRENE (human exposome). ISBE, the ESFRI for systems biology, is no longer included on the roadmap.
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Recommended reads
Managing the life cycle of a portfolio of open data resources at the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
An ELIXIR Switzerland paper
Data resources are essential for the long-term preservation of scientific data and the reproducibility of science. The SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics provides the life science community with a portfolio of openly accessible, high-quality databases and software platforms [...]. This review presents the ecosystem of data resources at SIB; the process used for the identification, evaluation and development of resources; and the support activities that SIB provides.
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Mutational signatures and heterogeneous host response revealed via large-scale characterization of SARS-CoV-2 genomic diversity
An ELIXIR Italy paper
To dissect the mechanisms underlying the inflation of variants in the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome CoronaVirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) genome, we present a large-scale analysis of intra-host genomic diversity, which reveals that most samples exhibit heterogeneous genomic architectures, due to the interplay between host-related mutational processes and transmission dynamics.
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Updates from Platforms
Check out the training highlights from the Australian BioCommons 2021 Showcase
The Australian BioCommons 2021 Showcase presented a wide range of collaborative activities that drew key players together to deliver complex enhancements and new solutions for the digital life sciences. Celia van Gelder highlighted the collaborative efforts of the ELIXIR Training Platform and the Australian Bio in the Outreach, collaboration & skills development session.
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Updates from Nodes
FAIRsharing and the COVID-19 Rapid Review Initiative report
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Updates from other initiatives
Provide your feedback for the GA4GH Beacon v2.0
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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: Biomedicine, supercomputers and simulations: in silicon experiments and its applications in cancer research
14 December 2021 | 15:00 CET
ELIXIR-CH: Immunoinformatics
25-26 January 2022 | Muttenz, Switzerland
ELIXIR Events and Conferences
3D-Bioinfo Webinar: Nucleic acid tools: progress and further plans
14 December 2021 | 15:00 CET
Getting started with impact evaluation
21 January 2022 | 10:00 CET
ELIXIR-CONVERGE SIB workshop: Research Data Management and Data Management Plan
27-28 January 2022 | Lausanne, Switzerland
ELIXIR All Hands meeting 2022
7-10 June 2022 | Amsterdam, Netherlands
Job vacancies
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Postdoc positions in biocatalysis at DTU Biosustain
DTU Biosustain
Postdoc in Machine Learning for Spatial Multi-omics of Glioblastoma
German Cancer Research Institute (DKFZ)
Postdoc multidimensional integration of high throughput sequencing data
Albert-Ludwigs-Universitt Freiburg
Senior expert at data science excellence center in medical imaging
CMIV/AIDA/NBIS/BIGPICTURE
Postdoctoral fellow (Research Associate)
ELIXIR-Luxembourg / Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine