This week's highlights
Now open: ECCB Call for abstracts - for ELIXIR Communities track
Deadline: 29 May 2022
ELIXIR Community Members are invited to submit an abstract - and contribute to one of the four track sessions. More information can be found on the ELIXIR at the ECCB 2022 page and dont hesitate to get in touch with Katharina Heil with any questions you might have.
More information
Data Protection page launched on ELIXIR website
What personal data does the ELIXIR Hub handle? Why does ELIXIR not apply GDPR?
Read about ELIXIR's internal data protection framework on our new "Data Protection in ELIXIR" webpage.
Find out more
European Commission report on FAIR data highlights ELIXIR
The European Commission has released an expert report on FAIR data during the COVID-19 response. The report summarises the results of three EC workshops held in late 2021.
No time to read the report? Weve summarised the highlights for you.
News report on the ELIXIR website
Data access, movement and management strategic workshop
As part of ELIXIRs Strategic Implementation Study on container services, a workshop was held to discuss the current challenges and possible solutions to improving the movement of life science data and how it is accessed and managed.
More about the workshop
Recommended reads
Galaxy: A Decade of Realising CWFR Concepts
An ELIXIR-BE & ELIXIR-NO paper
Read more
A quality control portal for sequencing data deposited at EGA
An ELIXIR-CONVERGE paper
Updates from Nodes
New paper on CRISPRCas9 gRNA efficiency prediction
Read the recently published paper "CRISPRCas9 gRNA efficiency prediction: an overview of predictive tools and the role of deep learning"
Full article
Updates from Communities
Invitation to join the ELIXIR Metabolomics Community F2F/hybrid Meeting
22 & 23 June 2022 | Hybrid - Valencia, Spain
Complete the registration form no later than 3 June for F2F attendance and 22 June for virtual attendance. For invited attendees, you will need to register to confirm your invitation and share additional details.
Find out more and register now
Updates from Platforms
RDA-Activities focus group regular monthly call
16 May | 13:00-14:00 CEST | Virtual
The RDA-Activities focus group is now running a regular monthly call on the third Monday of the month. The first monthly call will take place on Monday (16 May) at 13:00-14:00 CEST.
Zoom link and agenda
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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
10th RepeatExplorer workshop on the application of NGS to repetitive DNA
24-26 May 2022 | esk Budjovice, Czech Republic
3rd hands-on computational enzyme design workshop
30 May - 1 June 2022 | Virtual
Intermediate Python
3 June 2022 | Bern, Switzerland
Functional exploration of genetic variants in cardiac diseases
14-15 June 2022 | Lyon, France | Apply by 1 May
Research Data Management and Data Management Plan
23-24 June 2022 | Lausanne, Switzerland
Summer school on genetic epidemiology
29 June - 2 July 2022 | Davos, Switzerland
Training course on facilitation and moderation skills
7-8 July 2022 | Hague, Netherlands
ELIXIR Events and Conference
FAIRplus Innovation and SME forum 2022
17 May 2022 | Virtual
ELIXIR All Hands meeting 2022
7-10 June 2022 | Amsterdam, Netherlands
BioHackathon Europe
7-11 November 2022 | Paris, France
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