Weekly Brief, 15 May 2023

This week's highlights

Additional Show & Tell: Analysing qualitative data & Measuring policy impact

26 May 2023 | 11:00 CEST

This additional Show and Tell in our series will cover two topics:

• Analysing qualitative data (using Nvivo)
• Measuring policy impact (Overton.io demo)

This event is part of the ELIXIR Strategic Implementation Study on Impact, in collaboration with ELIXIR-CONVERGE WP4. All participants are welcome to join, especially those involved in ELIXIR and interested in impact evaluation.

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ELIXIR Tech team webinar: Tools Platform

18 May 2023 | 15:00-16:00 CEST

This month, the ELIXIR Tech team webinar will focus on Tools Platform and its activities. Join the webinar to learn more about ELIXIR Tools Platform.

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BBMRI AAI user community is part of LS Login (AAI)

On 9 May, BBMRI AAI user community was migrated to Life Science Login (LS Login).
LS Login, launched on 11 April 2022, currently has more than 12,000 users including ELIXIR and BBMRI user communities. Users can use their home organisation credentials or other identities to sign in and access data and services connected to LS Login.

More about the progress of migration

Recommended reads

HaploCoV: unsupervised classification and rapid detection of novel emerging variants of SARS-CoV-2

An EOSC-Life | BY-COVID paper

Accurate and timely monitoring of the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 is crucial for identifying and tracking viral variants, and implementing mitigation strategies to limit their spread. Here, the authors introduce HaploCoV, a novel software framework that enables the exploration of SARS-CoV-2 genomic diversity through space and time, to identify novel emerging viral variants and prioritize variants of potential epidemiological interest in a rapid and unsupervised manner. The results highlight the importance of the application of strategies based on the systematic analysis and integration of regional data for rapid identification of novel, emerging variants of SARS-CoV-2. The approach outlined in this study will contribute to relevant advances to current and future genomic surveillance methods.

Read more

Disease association and comparative genomics of compositional bias in human proteins

An ELIXIR-GR paper

The evolutionary rate of disordered protein regions varies greatly due to the lack of structural constraints. So far, few studies have investigated the presence/absence patterns of compositional bias, indicative of disorder, across phylogenies in conjunction with human disease. In this study, the authors report a genome-wide analysis of compositional bias association with disease in human proteins and their taxonomic distribution. This is the first time that a combined genome-wide analysis of compositional bias, disease-association and taxonomic distribution of human proteins is reported, covering structural, functional, and evolutionary properties. The reported framework can form the basis for large-scale, follow-up projects, encompassing the entire human genome and all known gene-disease associations.

Read more

Updates from Nodes

Summer School Multi-omics Data Analysis and Integration

3-8 September 2023 | Aussois, France
Application deadline: 1 June 2023

During this summer school, jointly organised by ELIXIR-FR and ELIXIR-CH (IFB and SIB), the programme will introduce RGCCA and mixOmics for multivariate analyses and WGCNA and SNF for network-based strategies.

More information and registration

Health-RI/EOSC-Life workshop: Bridging the gap between researchers and the Life Sciences & Health research infrastructures

13-14 June 2023 | Hybrid - Utrecht, the Netherlands

This workshop is dedicated to showcasing several resources developed in Research Infrastructures: context, get feedback on those resources from foreseen users and hence help bridge the (perceived) gap between research infrastructures and the broader user community.

More information and registration

Job vacancies at the Bioinformatics Group of the Wageningen University

• Junior lecturer in bioinformatics and data science
• Scientific software engineer

UK House of Commons Reproducibility and Research Integrity report includes ELIXIR-UK evidence

In 2021, ELIXIR-UK contributed to the inquiry from the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee of the House of Commons and provided evidence gathered from work on the issues of reproducibility and research integrity. The highlighted threads were taken into the Reproducibility and Research Integrity report, released by the Committee on 10 May 2023.

Check the recommendations in the report

WorkflowHub - Ask me anything session

30 June 2023 | 13:00 CEST | Online

This online event will cover topics from how to best organise and maintain workflows on the Hub, how to access workflows, to what services are available. A team of experts will be on hand to answer questions, share insights and provide valuable tips and tricks to help participants optimise their workflow.

More information and registration

Updates from Communities

RDM has become an ELIXIR Community

After consultation with the ELIXIR Heads of Nodes, RDM has become an ELIXIR Community. The RDM Community has been invited to present a proposal for the initial RDM Community Implementation Study at the next HoN meeting. If you are interested in contributing to the Implementation Study, please join the slack channel: #community_RDM for communications, discussions and exchange of ideas.

The first ELIXIR RDM Community meeting will be held on Wednesday (17 May) at 13:00 CEST; the agenda for the meeting will be shared soon.

Please see here for the connection detail

3D-BioInfo webinar on Protein Design and Evolution

20 June 2023 | 17:00 CEST | Online

The 3D BioInfo Community is holding a webinar focusing on Protein design and evolution. The webinar will be chaired by Dr Anastassia Andreevna Vorobieva with two presentations.

More information and registration

Updates from other initiatives

Share your opinion: the Public Consultation on the Strategic Research & Innovation Agenda of the future European Rare Diseases Partnership

Deadline: 9 June 2023

The European Commission together with member states and associated countries decided to implement the Rare Diseases Partnership supporting robust patient need-led research. To build its strategy on input of all stakeholders, the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda of the RD Partnership is now open for public consultation to gather the inputs of all types of stakeholders.

Share your opinion here

Questionnaire on Incentives for data sharing

HealthyCloud WP4 has been working on finding an effective incentive system that encourages researchers to share their data. The team has prepared a short questionnaire to gather feedback from different user communities about the proposed incentives.

Fill out the questionnaire

New PathOS report on Open Science impact

The report details work to systematically scope evidence of the academic, societal and economic impacts of Open Science. The PathOS team identified 479 relevant studies, with Open Access and Citizen Science dominating the academia and societal impact evidence.

Read the report

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 Events and Conferences

ELIXIR All Hands 2023
5-8 June 2023 | Dublin, Ireland

IDP Community F2F/hybrid Meeting
3-4 July 2023 | Hybrid - Bratislava, Slovakia

BioHackathon Europe 2023
30 October - 3 November 2023 | Barcelona, Spain

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
 

Fixed-term technical position: Interoperability services for biomedical data

Biocomputing group - University of Bologna

Fixed-term technical position: Services based on machine and deep learning methodologies for the analysis of biological sequences and structures

Biocomputing group - University of Bologna

SILVA - Scientist Microbial Ecology & Taxonomy

DSMZ

SILVA - Backend developer Maven / Spring Boot

Leibniz Institute DSMZ

BRENDA - Data Expert Biochemistry/Enzymology

Leibniz Institute DSMZ