This week's highlights
ELIXIR Webinar: Enabling a Data Ecosystem at the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
ELIXIR is honoured to welcome two distinguished speakers from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) as part of its webinar series.
Together, they will present: Enabling a Data Ecosystem at the National Institutes of Health.
Find out more and register
Opportunity to join the BioHackathon 2022 Programme Committee
Volunteers are invited to join the BioHackathon 2022 Programme Committee. The committee reviews submitted projects and plans event content. Meetings are monthly, starting around 25 March. Express your interest using the link below or email the BH2022 team with any questions.
Express your interest
Request for updates to What we are Doing page in COVID-19 section of ELIXIR website
Please review the text version of the webpage showing what Nodes are doing in response to COVID-19 and add any updates to this document.
Recommended reads
Computational models in personalized medicine - guidelines & recommendations
EU-STANDS4PM
Computational modelling approaches play a key role in the analysis of the underlying molecular processes and pathways that characterize human biology. They also lead to a more profound understanding of the mechanisms and factors that drive diseases, enabling personalized treatment strategies that are guided by central clinical questions. Here, we discuss the most relevant computational models for personalized medicine as best-practice guidelines for application in clinical care. We define specific challenges and provide guidelines and recommendations for study design, data acquisition and operation as well as for model validation and clinical translation and other research areas.
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MetaCOXI: a collection of metazoan mitochondrial COXI DNA sequences
An ELIXIR-IT paper
The wide use of the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit-I (COXI) as a standard DNA barcode marker in metazoan biodiversity studies highlights the need for the integration of data from different sources. Here, we present MetaCOXI, an integrated collection of curated metazoan COXI DNA sequences with their associated harmonized taxonomy and metadata. The current release contains more than 5.6 million entries, their related taxonomic classification based on NCBI reference taxonomy, and their available main metadata relevant to environmental DNA studies, such as geographical coordinates, sampling country and host species.
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Updates from Nodes
Finnish research team sequence genomes of thousands of individuals with diabetes to identify genetic risk factors
FinnDiane, established in 1997, is a follow-up study of almost 8,000 individuals with type 1 diabetes and is one of the worlds first to sequence the entire genome on this scale for a specific disease.
Dutch Techcentre for Life Sciences joins Research Data Netherlands
Research Data Netherlands welcomes the Dutch Techcentre for Life Sciences (DTL). The partnership allows a joint approach to training, long-term preservation and FAIR-based data stewardship.
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ELIXIR Recommended Interoperability Resource BridgeDb awarded NWO Open Science grant
BridgeDb is a framework to map identifiers between various biological databases. The new grant widens the project scope to include new data sources, preparing the ground for wide adoption in the European Open Science Cloud.
View the project proposal
Join the next Data Stewards Interest Group meeting
March 17 |13:45-15:30 CET
All are welcome to the next meeting, featuring speakers Nawel Lalout (on the Duchenne Data Platform) and Jet Zoon (on plans for data stewardship info snippets).
View the agenda and register
Updates from Platforms
ELIXIR-CONVERGE - Join the training community kick-off meeting in data management and data stewardship
24 March 2022 | 12:00-14:00 CET
Registration is now open for the online training community kick-off event in data management and data stewardship organised by ELIXIR CONVERGE-WP2. This is your opportunity to build a DM/DS Training community!
Join the next ELIXIR AAI engagement call
30 March | 10:00-11:00 CET
Plans for ELIXIR AAI user and service migration to Life Science AAI will be presented, along with time for discussion.
Find out more and register
Updates from other initiatives
FAIRopoly launched on the EJP RD website
FAIRopoly illustrates the FAIRification steps necessary to make registry data more findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable. The player starts the game on the top left corner of the board and moves around clockwise one tile at a time.
Explore the game
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 webinar: Data science at the NIH
24 March 2022 |15:00 CET
Training community kick-off: data management and data stewardship
24 March 2022 | 12:00-14:00 CET
Applied statistics: data analysis in practice
5-6 April 2022 | Lausanne, Switzerland
First steps with R
5-7 April 2022 (half days) | Virtual | Limited spaces
Galaxy introduction for life scientists
27 April 2022 | Lausanne, Switzerland
Metabolomics and integrative omics: from data production to analysis
28-29 April 2022 | Bari, Italy
Nordic train-the-trainer course
10-13 May 2022 (half days)| Virtual | Deadline to apply: 3 April
Summer school on genetic epidemiology
29 June - 2 July 2022 | Davos, Switzerland
ELIXIR Events and Conferences
Training Platform meeting
16-18 March 2022 | Hybrid - Brussels, Belgium
Data access, movement and management workshop
31 March 2022 | Remote | 09.30 - 12.30 CET
Tools Platform meeting
4-6 April 2022 | Hybrid - Brussels, Belgium
FAIRplus Innovation and SME forum 2022
17 May 2022 | Hybrid - Berlin, Germany
ELIXIR All Hands meeting 2022
7-10 June 2022 | Amsterdam, Netherlands
BioHackathon Europe
7-11 November 2022 | Paris, France
Job vacancies
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ELIXIR Administrative Assistant
ELIXIR Hub
Senior Administrative Officer: Governance and Events
ELIXIR Hub
Scientific Coordinator / Knowledge Graph Engineer
SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics