Weekly Brief, 16 August 2021

This week's highlights

Please help us find new faces for the Hub

Three open positions

Legal Officer

Deadline this Wednesday! 18 August

Scientific Officer: Human Genomics and Translational Data

Deadline 25 August

Programme Manager: Human Genomics and Translational Data

Deadline 29 August

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

13 September | Hybrid, [BC]2 Conference in Basel
Three fantastic keynotes including our own Serena Scollen (B1MG), Bogi Eliasen (Faroese genome sequencing project) and Nicolas Loeillot (Group Mutuel) and a showcase of exciting tech and pharmaceutical advancements from start-ups, SMEs and established companies.
Register before the 9 September

BioHackathon Europe

8-12 November 2021 | Hybrid, Barcelona
With close to 40 projects to choose from, there's something for everyone at this year's BioHackathon Europe. Don't miss this unique opportunity to network, learn and have fun with enthusiastic developers from across the world!

Register before 15 September

Recommended reads of the week

Measuring outcomes and impact from the BioHackathon Europe


One of the recurring questions when it comes to BioHackathons is how to measure their impact, especially when funded and/or supported by the public purse (e.g., research agencies, research infrastructures, grants). In this manuscript, we report on three complementary approaches to assess outcomes of three BioHackathon Europe events: survey-based, publication-based and GitHub-based measures.

Read more...

A SARS-CoV-2 sequence submission tool for the European Nucleotide Archive

An ELIXIR Germany and ELIXIR Hungary paper
The European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) is the European recommended open repository for genetic sequences. In this work, we present a tool for submitting raw sequencing reads of SARS-CoV-2 to ENA. The tool features a single-step submission process, a graphical user interface, tabular-formatted metadata and the possibility to remove human reads prior to submission.

Read more...

Updates from Communities

3D-BioInfo 2021 Annual Meeting - submit your abstract!

2 - 4 November 2021 (afternoons) | Virtual
Join this year's 3D-Bioinfo Community's annual meeting! Everyone is welcome and the event kicks off with an overview to the Community, breakout sessions and plenary session. There's also the opportunity to present a short talk or a poster.

The application deadline is 27 September (for poster/short talk) and 1 November (for attendance only).
Find out more

Updates from Nodes

DeepMind and EMBL release the most complete database of predicted 3D structures of human proteins


EMBL-EBI and AI expert DeepMind have co-developed the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database, a joint project to openly and freely share millions of AlphaFold protein structure predictions with the scientific community.
Find out more

Updates from other initiatives

Help GA4GH understand user experiences with cohort data

Are you currently working with or having challenges with cohort data? The Clinical & Phenotypic Data Capture & Discovery Work Streams are collecting feedback on current efforts & needs in this space.
Fill in the survey

Join the 9th GA4GH Plenary

28-29 September 2021 | Virtual Register now

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

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)

UK Conference of bioinformatics and computational biology 2021

28-30 September 2021 | Virtual

3D-Bioinfo 2021 Annual Meeting
2-4 November 2021 | Virtual

BioHackathon Europe 2021

8-12 November 2021 | Hybrid Barcelona, Spain
Registration is now open!

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

Postdoctoral Fellow: ProID Project

EMBL-EBI

Scientific Officer: ELIXIR Human Genomics and Translational Data

ELIXIR Hub

Data Stewardship Community Manager

University of Bradford

(Senior) Data Steward / Research and Development specialist

ELIXIR-Luxembourg / Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine

Data Steward / Research and Development specialist

ELIXIR-Luxembourg / Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine