We're hiring at the hub - deadlines this week!
We have two open positions at the ELIXIR Hub, please share within your networks!
- Web developer (closes 16 June)
- Project Manager/Senior Project Coordinator (closes 18 June)
ELIXIR Webinar: Discovering the latest EGA features. Quality control and data submission portal
This Wednesday!
16 June 2021 | 14:00 CEST
Join the upcoming ELIXIR webinar to discover the latest features of the EGA: quality control portal and the new submitter portal.
You will learn how to submit data to the EGA directly from the experts at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG).
Register today
ELIXIR Bioinformatics Industry Forum: open software, AI and bioimaging
23 June | 16:30-18:30 CEST
Still time to register for the next EBIF Using open software tools and AI to improve bioimaging. Join experts from Leica Microsystems, NVIDIA and MathWorks for demos and presentations. Please share among your networks.
Event details and registration
Thank you!
Thank you to all that attended, spoke at and engaged with the ELIXIR All Hands 2021. It was our biggest event so far and it was great to see all the presentations and lively zoom chats and discussions. We look forward to meeting with you all again next year in Amsterdam , 7-10 June 2022!
Recommended reads of the week
High-performance macromolecular data delivery and visualization for the web
An ELIXIR-CZ paper
This article provides a survey of the available cutting-edge web services that address this challenge. Specifically, it focuses on data-delivery problems, discusses the visualization of a single structure, including experimental data and annotations, and concludes with a focus on the results of molecular-dynamics simulations and the visualization of structural ensembles.
Gramene 2021: harnessing the power of comparative genomics and pathways for plant research
Gramene, a knowledgebase founded on comparative functional analyses of genomic and pathway data for model plants and major crops, supports agricultural researchers worldwide. Gramene integrates ontology-based protein structurefunction annotation; information on genetic, epigenetic, expression, and phenotypic diversity; and gene functional annotations extracted from plant-focused journals using DIVE.
Continue reading...
Updates from Platforms
Digital skills for FAIR and open science
For those who missed it at the ELIXIR All Hands, the EOSC Skills & Training working group (Celia, Fotis, Ana) presented 'Digital Skills for FAIR and open science' in the EOSC Workshop; you can now view the presentation through Zenodo.
View the slides
Fill in the survey on FAIRification of genomic tracks
Help us shape FAIR solutions for genome browser tracks! Please fill out the survey if you...
have used genome browsers and/or genomic track files, and wish it was easier to Find, Access, Interoperate with and/or Reuse genomic tracks!
Updates from Communities
New 3D Bioinfo webinar series!
Starting later this month, the 3D Bioinfo community series will deliver monthly webinars on a variety of topics. The first in the series is:
FAIR Infrastructure for protein structural and functional annotations
29 June 2021 | 15.00 CEST
- Sameer Velankar | Overview of the 3D-Beacons project
- Ian Sillitoe | 3D-Beacons client and API
- Gerardo Tauriello | Model quality
Galaxy Community Conference: key updates
28 June - 10 July 2021 | Virtual
Upcoming deadlines:
- June 14: Poster and demo
- June 25: Registration
- 2 July: Bird of a feather (BoF) ideas
There will also be a special edition of the Paper Cuts Day on the 17 June focused on the CoFest taking place in advance of this year's Galaxy Community Conference.
Paper Cuts Day details
Updates from Nodes
EMBO Practical Course | Research to Service: Planning and Running a Bioinformatics Core Facility
4-8 October 2021 | Registration deadline 30 June | Virtual
This course is aimed at newly appointed managers of bioinformatics core facilities, specially those with one foot in the research camp, or those managers willing to stabilise and grow their services. The course will provide an opportunity to learn from experienced core facilities managers how to build a framework for the future development, resourcing, operation and impact assessment of your core services.
Registration fee waivers and childcare grants available!
Event details and registration
Updates from other initiatives
EJPRD Webinar: Digitalization of the inborn errors of metabolism pathways from Blau et al.
1 July 2021 | 15:00 CEST |
In this webinar, ELIXIR-NL PhD candidate Denise Slenter from the Bioinformatics department at Maastricht University will show her project on digitising pathway figures from the medical textbook Physician's guide to the diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of inherited metabolic diseases" by N. Blau et al. 2019.
Event details and registration
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. A link off to the TeSS portal
ELIXIR-CZ Friday Coffee: CaverDock: Analysis of Ligand Transport through Protein Tunnels
18 June | 09:30-10:30 CEST | Virtual
Women in data science: perspectives from academia and industry
18 June | 15:00-17:30 CEST | Virtual
Knowledge translation to the agricultural technology industry
21 - 22 June | 15:30 CEST | Virtual
First steps with R (ELIXIR-LU)
27 - 29 July | Virtual
Galaxy Community Conference 2021
28 June - 10 July 2021 | Virtual
EMBO Practical Course | Research to Service: Planning and Running a Bioinformatics Core Facility
4-8 October 2021 | Registration deadline 30 June | Virtual
6th Annual Danish Bioinformatics Conference
18-19 November 2021 | Registration deadline 1 Sept | Aalborg, Denmark
ELIXIR Events and Conferences
ELIXIR Webinar: Discovering the latest EGA features. Quality control and data submission portal
16 June 2021 | 14:00 CEST
ELIXIR Bioinformatics Industry Forum: Using open software tools and AI to improve bioimaging
23 June 2021 | 16:30-18:30 CEST | Virtual
3D Bioinfo webinar series: FAIR Infrastructure for protein structural and functional annotations
29 June 2021 | 15:00 CEST
ELIXIR Webinar: BRENDA: the comprehensive enzyme information system
1 July 2021 | 16:00 CEST
Innovation and SME Forum: Building the learning ecosystem of health: from data tracking to preventive medicine
13 September 2021 | At the [BC]2 Conference, Basel, Switzerland
(virtual participation also available)
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
Data Manager (80%-100%)
SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Web Developer - Cambridgeshire, Visa provided
ELIXIR Hub
ELIXIR Project Manager/ Senior Project Coordinator
ELIXIR
Data Manager - Data Services and Infrastructure Support
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS)