A successful virtual All Hands Meeting 2020
Last week, we successfully hosted our first virtual All Hands Meeting with more than 500 registrations and 25 guestsincluding the Australian BioCommons, NIH from the US and H3ABioNet from South Africa.
We are pleased that our main principles and values of the Code of Conduct were followed throughout the multiple workshops, mini-symposia and plenary sessions. We advocate for diversity, inclusivity, respect and collaboration. If you want to know more, visit our webpage.
The All Hands Meeting also left us some prizes:
- To the best posters:
- To the best impact and innovation presentation:
Large scale cloud computing in the life sciences
23 June 2020 | 4 pm CEST
This is our last, but not least, webinar as part of the ELIXIR Bioinformatics Industry Forum Series. We will show some real-life use cases, discuss successes and bottlenecks, and explore what the future holds for cloud computing in the life sciences. With Google, EMBL-EBI and ETH Zurich/ BioMedIT
Last Updates from the ELIXIR Europe BioHackathon
We have now selected 37 projects and will be notifying projects leads to their invitees' list.
We still plan to hold the hackathon as a face to face event in Barcelona. Registration will open on 22 June 2020
Last updates from the virtual ECCB
As announced last week, if you are interested in presenting a 15-minutes talk at the ELIXIR track, please submit a short abstract (max 200 words) by 22nd June 9 am CEST through Easychair.
Submit it here
The 6th European Student Council Symposium (ESCS 2020) has just set new dates for its virtual meeting. This is the student's satellite meeting happening just before the ECCB2020 on the 6th of September.
Find out more here
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
Tip of the Week
Did you know you can access our Weekly Brief archive from the ELIXIR website?
Navigate all past issues here
Updates from Nodes
ELIXIR-FI | CSC creates new online course on Machine Learning
From March until the end of August
The course on 'Practical machine learning MOOC' covers linear classification and regression, nearest neighbour methods, support vector machines, decision trees, neural networks, clustering, and anomaly detection.
Updates from Communities
Nominate the new co-leads for the Intrinsically Disordered Proteins Community
We've opened nominations to select up to three new co-leads for the Community, as the present co-leads are stepping down. The election of new co-leads will take place in mid-July, depending on the number of nominations received.
What details do you need to send?
Nominations should contain a short description to demonstrate track record and suitability for the role. This should be no more than 1 page-long or 2-3 slides.
At this stage, we invite self-nominations to be sent to john.hancock@elixir-europe.org.
Deadline 30th June 2020
New publication in the 'New Phytologist' Journal
'Enabling reusability of plant phenomic datasets with MIAPPE 1.1' was published earlier this year to report on the improvements in the new version of the MIAPPE standard. It thoroughly describes its current structure and formats, with which the authors hope to improve reusability of plant data.
MIAPPE and BrAPI featured on Wageningen University's long reads
The article published on the University's website on 'Breakthrough in global data exchange on plant breeding' praises the work of MIAPPE and BrAPI. It features an interview with researcher Richard Finkers, from the Department of Plant Breeding at Wageningen University, to explore how these two breakthroughs pave the way to efficient and transparent research in Plant Sciences.
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.
ELIXIR AAI online Training
17 June 2020 | 10 am CEST
Integrating FAIR Data Science Competencies in Higher Education Curricula: The Role of Academic and Research Libraries
23 June 2020 | 2-3 pm CEST
EBIF Series | Large scale cloud computing in the life sciences
23 June 2020 | 4 pm CEST
Statistics and data visualization Lessons learned from the SARS-Coronavirus-2
1 July 2020 | 2 pm CEST
ELIXIR Events and Conferences
19th European Conference on Computational Biology
September 2020 | Online
ELIXIR BioHakacthon Europe
913 November 2020 | Barcelona, Spain
Research Software Developers Day
3 December 2020 | Ghent, Belgium or Online
ELIXIR Belgium and VIB Bioinformatics Core jointly organize the first Research Software Engineers conference to foster a community of RSEs and build qualitative, reliable and state-of-the-art software.
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.
Data Management Usability Officer
VIB
ELIXIR-UK Community Engagement Officer
ELIXIR-UK, Earlham Institute
Computer Engineer position - EuCanImage project
University of Barcelona (UB)
EU 1 Million Genomes - Senior Coordinator
CSC - IT Center for Science
Senior Software Engineer
CSC - IT Center for Science
Updates from other initiatives
We recommend ZonMw Series of Webinars
18 June 20206 July 2020 | Online
Co-organised with Health-RI, ZonMw organises COVID-19 research webinars on FAIR data management, registries, research networks, data portals and much more. They aim to involve data experts, researchers and professionals to make COVID-19 data reusable and ultimately, prepare researchers for future infectious diseases outbreaks.
A 16-week mentoring and training programme for Open ambassadors in Life Science
Open Life Science is a 16-week mentoring and training program for early-stage researchers and potential academic leaders who want to become ambassadors for Life Science in their communities. After successfully concluding their first cohort this May with 25 project leads, they have opened a call for applications for their next cohort, which will begin in September 2020.
Deadline for application is 30 June 2020