This week's highlights
Welcome to Zippy
Today we are joined by Zippy Tseng who starts her role as ELIXIR Communications Officer. She will work alongside Elaine Westwick, who joined as Communications Officer last month.
Save the date: BioHackathon Europe
7-11 November | Paris, France
BioHackathon Europe with be held 7-11 November, with the call for projects opening shortly. Further information will be published on the event website.
Recommended reads
Computational analysis of 10,860 phenotypic annotations in SCN2A-related disorders
An ELIXIR-LU paper
Pathogenic variants in SCN2A cause a wide range of neurodevelopmental phenotypes. We extracted phenotypic information from primary descriptions of SCN2A-related disorders in the literature between 2001 and 2019, which we coded in Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) terms. We identified 413 unrelated individuals and derived a total of 10,860 HPO terms with 562 unique terms. Protein-truncating variants were associated with autism and behavioral abnormalities.
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The genomic basis of evolutionary differentiation among honey bees
An ELIXIR-ES paper
We provide a genome-wide comparison of three honey bee species each representing one of the three subgenera of honey bees, namely the dwarf (Apis florea), giant (A. dorsata) and cavity-nesting (A. mellifera) honey bees with bumblebees as outgroup. Our analyses resolve the phylogeny of honey bees with the dwarf honey bees diverging first. We find that evolution of increased eusocial complexity in Apis proceeds via increases in the complexity of gene regulation, which is in agreement with previous studies.
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Updates from Nodes
BioSB RNA-seq data analysis course open for registration
9-13 May 2022 | Breda, the Netherlands
The course covers the basic concepts and methods required for RNA-seq analysis.
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Easy-to-read introduction to GA4GH Passports
A new CINECA project deliverable describes the GA4GH Passports version 1.0 specification. The introduction covers GA4GH passports and visas and includes examples of protocol flows and set-ups.
Read Mikael Lindens blog
Over 2,000 de.NBI training course participants in 2021
de.NBI have a new participant record: 2,128 training course participants in 2021! Thank you to all trainers and course organizers.
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Updates from Platforms
Reminder: Register for the Training Platform meeting
16-18 March 2022 | Brussels, Belgium and virtually
Registration deadline (for in-person attendance) - 16 February
After two years, the Training Platform, including all of ELIXIR's Training Coordinators, will meet to share updates and work on open training related aspects and ELIXIR Training Platform tasks as part of the 2022-2023 programme.
There is a limit of 25 in-person participants but none for virtual attendees. If the in-person component can't go ahead, the meeting will be fully virtual. Please contact Katharina Heil for any questions.
Read the programme and register (login required)
Updates from Communities
White paper feedback requested!
Emerging Single Cell Omics Community
Deadline Thursday, 07 April 2022
The emerging ELIXIR Single Cell Omics Community are presenting their white paper draft for consultation and feedback. Please add your comments directly to the PDF document or send to ELIXIR's Communities Coordinator Katharina Heil.
Emerging Systems Biology Community
Deadline Thursday, 07 April 2022
The emerging ELIXIR Systems Biology Community are presenting their white paper draft for consultation and feedback. Please add your comments directly to the PDF document or send to ELIXIR's Communities Coordinator Katharina Heil.
Updates from other initiatives
Can you help with a WorkflowHub study?
WorkflowHub are looking for people with experience and general knowledge of workflows to take part in a Zoom interview and survey.
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EJP RD training course: strategies to foster solutions of undiagnosed rare disease cases
11-13 April 2022 |Online - Registration closes 6 March
The course will provide participants with with useful tools, instruments and knowledge on novel strategies to foster solutions of undiagnosed rare diseases cases.
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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
3D Bioinfo Community Webinar: Protein Engineering
15 February | 14:00 CET
Getting started with impact evaluation
10 March | 09:00-11.30 CET
Applied statistics: data analysis in practice
5-6 April | Lausanne, Switzerland
Summer school on genetic epidemiology
29 June - 2 July 2022 | Davos, Switzerland
ELIXIR Events and Conferences
16-18 March 2022 | Hybrid - Brussels, Belgium
ELIXIR All Hands meeting 2022
7-10 June 2022 | Amsterdam, Netherlands
BioHackathon Europe
7-11 November | Paris, France
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
Head of Operations
ELIXIR Hub
Permanent Research Engineer - Web tools and interface developpement
Institut Pasteur
Permanent Research Engineer - Genomics / paleogenomics
Institut Pasteur
Research Engineer (Short term contract) - Bioinformatics and biostatistics analysis for project "Milieu Intrieur"
Institut Pasteur
Permanent Research Engineer - Single cell data analysis
Institut Pasteur