Weekly Brief, 15 March 2021

HealthyCloud project launch

HealthyCloud (health research and innovation cloud) is a 30-month, 3million project that was launched on 9 March. The ultimate goal is to propose an ecosystem that builds and reinforces the trust of patients and citizens in the use of their health data for research, and focuses on Cancer and Atrial Fibrillations as case studies for this aim.
Read the Press Release
Follow @HealthyCloudEU on twitter

Registration open for the ELIXIR-CONVERGE General Assembly

10 June 2021 | Online

This meeting will provide an opportunity to assess the progress since the kick-off meeting, evaluate the early outcomes of the project and develop the plans towards the Mid-Term Review meeting in 2021.This event will take place around the ELIXIR All-Hands meeting, which will have separate registration.
Register here

Submit your BioHackathon project proposal

Deadline 1 April

The deadline to submit your project proposal for this year's BioHackathon Europe is rapidly approaching. Make sure you don't miss out on your opportunity to collaborate and network with a diverse community of bioinformaticians!
Submit your project proposal

Submit an abstract for the next ELIXIR Innovation and SME event

Building the learning ecosystem of health: from data tracking to preventive medicine

ELIXIR is working in collaboration with the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics to host the next Innovation and SME Forum alongside the [BC]2 conference. We're looking for talks to focus on:

Health data collection technologies (hardware and software) focusing on healthy citizens and/or patients in the post-treatment phase
Data management
Research or data integration and analysis
Converting learnings into healthcare guidelines/policies.

Event page and submission guidelines

The eTRANSAFE Project on Translational Safety Assessment through Integrative Knowledge Management: Achievements and Perspectives

eTRANSAFE is a research project funded within the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI), which aims at developing integrated databases and computational tools (the eTRANSAFE ToxHub) that support the translational safety assessment of new drugs by using legacy data provided by the pharmaceutical companies that participate in the project.
Continue reading...

Updates from Nodes

New FAIR Data Stewardship training project

ELIXIR-UK have successfully secured funding for a new data steward training project as part of the UKRI Innovation Scholars: Data Science Training in Health and Bioscience call. ELIXIR-UK training coordinator Krzysztof Poterlowicz from the University of Bradford leads, with ELIXIR-UKs data management lead Robert Andrews from Cardiff University as co-lead.

ELIXIR France releases March newsletter

This month's newsletter focused on the renewal of the IFB network of bioinformatics platforms, other important COVID-19 news, and much more.
Read the issue

New eTRANSAFE publication

ELIXIR Spain's teams at GRIB (IMIM-UPF) and BSC are partners of the eTRANSAFE project and co-authors of the paper that was released this week, and featured in our Recommended Reads for this week.
Read the paper here

Hugely successful workshop on biomedical research infrastructures in Spain

Held last week, the "Jornada informativa sobre las Infraestructuras de Investigacin en Ciencias Biomdicas" attracted around 300 participants. The event was featured in a news release from ISCII.

The ELIXIR session was led by Salvador Capella who highlighted the national roadmap, services portfolio and CONVERGE. Arcadi Navarro and Jordi Rambla highlighted the EGA and Laura Furlong presented DisGeNET as an ELIXIR RIR.
Recordings of entire conference
ELIXIR specific recordings Updates from Platforms

Submit your Data Platform Implementation Study proposals

Deadline approaching

Call for Scalable Curation Implementation Study Proposals now open! The call aims to improve data resource management across ELIXIR. Deadline 31 March.
View details and submit your proposal

Updates from Communities

Call for new co-lead of the Federated Human Data Community

llkka Lappalainen (ELIXIR-FI) will stand down from co-lead of the ELIXIR Federated Human Data Community. We would like to thank Ilkka for his time, enthusiasm, and hard work during his time as co-lead.

We are opening up a period for self-nomination. Candidates should submit a short statement of their background and what they believe they will bring to the role.
Deadline 31 March.

Submit nominations to gary.saunders@elixir-europe.org

Galaxy advanced features webinar series

17 March 2021 | Online, 5 pm CET

Join us for the next Galaxy advanced features webinar on "Galaxy bridge to Jupyter Notebooks and RStudio".
Find all details and register

Updates from Focus Groups

Health Data Focus Group workshop

31 March 2021 | 10:00-13:00 CET | Online The purpose of this workshop is to understand the status of each ELIXIR Node with respect to their normal (business as usual) health data research related activities and how they have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic, to find commonalities and gaps across ELIXIRs Nodes. All welcome.
View the full agenda and register

Health Data Focus Group general meeting

25 March 2021 | 15:00 CET | Online

Special presentation from Maxim Moinat, from The Hyve, on the EHDEN project, including the OHDSI, and the OMOP model. All welcome.
Agenda and connection details

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

Galaxy-ELIXIR webinars series: Advanced Features

3-24 March 2021 | Online, 5 pm CET every Wednesday

Sex and gender biases in artificial intelligence and health
16 March 2021 | Online in Spanish or English

Training on Performance analysis tools and methodology, by and for women

19-21 April 2021 | Online

Galaxy introduction for life scientists

28 April 2021 | Online

First steps with Python in life sciences

10 - 12 May 2021 | Online

NGS - quality control, alignment, visualisation

17 - 19 May 2021 | Online

First steps in parallelisation with OpenMP

20 May 2021 | Online

ELIXIR Events and Conferences

Innovation and SME Forum: Building the learning ecosystem of health: from data tracking to preventive medicine

1315 September 2021 | Online

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

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