Weekly Brief, 16 May 2022

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

Despite recent encouragement to follow the FAIR principles, the day-to-day research practices have not changed substantially. Due to new developments and the increasing pressure to apply best practices, initiatives to improve the efficiency and reproducibility of scientific workflows are becoming more prevalent. This article discusses the importance of well-annotated tools and the specific requirements to ensure reproducible research with FAIR outputs. The authors detailed how Galaxy implemented the concepts that are put forward by the Canonical Workflow Framework for Research, whilst minimising changes to the practices of scientific communities.

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A quality control portal for sequencing data deposited at EGA

An ELIXIR-CONVERGE paper

The European GenomePhenome Archive (EGA) has been leading the archiving and distribution of human identifiable genomic data since 2008. One of the community concerns is the potential usability of the stored data, as of now, data submitters are not mandated to perform any quality control (QC) before uploading their data and associated metadata information. This article presents a new File QC Portal developed at EGA, along with QC reports performed and created for files submitted at EGA. Researchers benefit from being able to assess the quality of data prior to the data access decision and thereby, increasing the reusability of data.

Read more

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