Weekly Brief, 14 April 2020

In memoriam, James Taylor

On the 2nd of April, we received the sad news that we had lost James Taylor, co-founder of Galaxy. At ELIXIR, we appreciate and recognise the full worth of the effort he put into the Galaxy project.

Frederik Coppens, Head of Node in Belgium, wrote a beautiful eulogy to his colleague to remember James Taylor's commitment, work ethic and success, both as a professional and as a friend.

COVID-19 Updates

OUR DEDICATED WEBSITE

We have created an ELIXIR COVID-19 webpage to list all ELIXIR services that support researchers working on SARS-CoV-2. The site will be updated periodically to display new resources.

You can track our advance on compiling COVID-19 projects by accessing our shared document that includes all services and initiatives from the Nodes.

This is an internal document. Please, do not share outside ELIXIR.

ELIXIR COVID-19 SLACK WORKSPACE

Please, use this to discuss and exchange ideas on SARS-CoV-2 research initiatives, consider collaboration opportunities across ELIXIR Nodes and share results of your work on COVID-19 with other ELIXIR members.

If you haven't joined the workspace yet, don't forget to connect with us on Slack or email Katharina Lauer to be part of the conversation

SELECTED NATIONAL INITIATIVES


EMBL-EBI offers SARS-CoV-2 Data Hubs

The EBI is providing SARS-CoV-2 Data Hubs to organise the flow of sequence data and provide the European and global research communities with comprehensive open data sharing.

ELIXIR UK | HDR UK publishes COVID-19 Strategy

Find out how the Health Data Research UK, as the national institute for health data science for England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, is championing the use of health data to respond to COVID-19.

ELIXIR Spain | INB's COVID-19 dedicated page goes live

The Spanish Node has just published a dedicated page to showcase all their efforts against COVID-19. It will be updated periodically to display services and resources involving members from the Node and TransBioNet.

ELIXIR NL | Health-RI launches the Dutch COVID-19 Data Support Programme

The Health-RI team launched the Dutch COVID-19 Data Support Programme to support investigators and health care professionals working against the pandemic. Health-RI will connect communities, provide data services and tools, and present an overview of COVID-19 related initiatives.

Support them by submitting your COVID-19 initiative here.

Tip of the Week

Did you know we have created webinar guidelines for those who've seen their F2F meetings transformed into online conferences?

Updates from Platforms

Bioschemas markup recommended by the ISB

The International Society for Biocuration (ISB) is now encouraging researchers to use Bioschemas markup for their biocuration projects.

Read here the ISB dedicated COVID-19 recommendations

Now Online. Interoperability Platform F2F Meeting

1112 May 2020 | Online

This meeting is open to EVERYONE in ELIXIR.

We will be focusing on Interoperability activities to support COVID-19 research such as emergency data sharing plan, Bioschemas for the discoverability of dataset by Gene/Protein information, and the FAIRness of COVID-19 datasets.

There will be hands-on break-outs, virtual lunch-together pets/babies welcome to join!, and the social hour at the end of each day.

Register here before the 30th of April Find here the work-in-process programme Share here ideas of hands-on Interoperability topics

Updates from Nodes

ELIXIR IT | Human Technopole signs MoU with the Department of Biology, University of Rome

Human Technopole and the Department of Biology of the University of Rome "Tor Vergata" have signed an MoU that demonstrates their joint commitment to continue developing two databases, MINT and SIGNOR.

Read more about it here

ELIXIR NL | DTL starts a Slack Workspace for the Data Stewards Interest Group

The Dutch Tech Centre for Life Sciences has set up a dedicated Slack workspace to foster further interactions for the Data Stewards Interest Group. Future channels for the new-found 'special-interest groups' will work together on solutions for specific issues/topics. There are also channels to collect and exchange information or simply to chat with colleagues across Europe.

This workspace is open to everyone interested in Data Stewardship and is not limited to a specific academic discipline, nor to the Netherlands

Find out more about it here

If you would like to join, please, contact Jasmin Bhmer

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.

Gene expression made useful easily: tools and database of Bgee

27 April 2020 | SIB Online

Introduction to Glycoinformatics

1112 May 2020 | SIB Online

Interoperability Platform F2F Meeting

1112 May 2020 | Online

Online ELIXIR Bioinformatics Industry Forum

28th April 2020 | Online

ELIXIR Events and Conferences


19th European Conference on Computational Biology

5 - 9 September 2020 | Sitges, Barcelona, Spain

ELIXIR BioHakacthon Europe

9 - 13 November 2020 | Barcelona, Spain Job vacancies

 

All vacancies are also published on the ELIXIR website vacancies section (also including vacancies from industry). Submit vacancies from your Node or industry partners.


Post-doc position in protein bioinformatics
SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics

Bioinformatician, genomic analyses of pediatric sarcomas
Princess Mxima Center for Pediatric Oncology

European Open Science Cloud Programme Manager
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI)

Bioinformatician in Proteomics
National Bioinformatics Infrastructure Sweden

Research Associate for the area of cloud computing (m / f / d)
Bielefeld University/ CeBiTec/ de.NBI

Other News

European Biotech Week

28 September - 4 October 2020

A weeklong series of events celebrating biotechnology. You can join them, either by partaking in or organising an event at any time during the week