Weekly Brief, 17 January 2022

This week's highlights

A warm welcome and a fond farewell

Today we're joined by two new faces at the ELIXIR Hub:

  • Despoina Sousoni joins us as the new Outreach Officer for Industry
  • Elaine Westwick joins as ELIXIR Communications Officer

Lengthier introductions will follow in a news release in coming weeks.

Xnias (ELIXIR Communications Officer) final day working at the ELIXIR Hub is this Friday, 21 January. She is joining ELIXIR UK as Data Stewardship Community Coordinator for the UK Fellowship Programme on DS, so will remain a familiar face within ELIXIR. Erin (ELIXIR Communications Officer) will be leaving for maternity leave on the 4 February.

Getting started with impact evaluation - second edition workshop

21 January 2022 | 10:00 CET
There's still time to join the upcoming workshop on Impact Evaluation, which is happening this Wednesday. Don't miss out!

Zoom details (not to be shared externally)
Event information

Recommended reads

How to be FAIR with your data: A teaching and training handbook for higher education institutions

An ELIXIR Netherlands and FAIRsFAIR paper
This handbook aims to support higher education institutions with the integration of FAIR-related content in their curricula and teaching. It was written and edited by a group of about 40 collaborators in a series of six book sprint events that took place between 1 and 10 June 2021. The document provides practical material, such as competence profiles, learning outcomes and lesson plans, and supporting information. It incorporates community feedback received during the public consultation which ran from 27 July to 12 September 2021.
Read more...

3DBionotes COVID-19 edition

An ELIXIR Spain, CORBEL and EOSC-life paper

The web platform 3DBionotes-WS integrates multiple web services and an interactive web viewer to provide a unified environment in which biological annotations can be analyzed in their structural context. Since the COVID-19 outbreak, new structural data from many viral proteins have been provided at a very fast pace. In this context, we have developed 3DBionotes-COVID-19 as an answer to: (i) the need to explore multiomics data in a unified context with a special focus on structural information and (ii) the drive to incorporate quality measurements, especially in the form of advanced validation metrics for cryo-EM.
Read more...

Updates from Platforms

Join the next ELIXIR AAI engagement call on human data and GA4GH passports

26 January | 10-11 CET | Virtual
This second engagement call will discuss AAI use-cases and ELIXIR Human Data Community and EGA needs related to proposed changes by NIH and dbGaP. Open to all interested in:

  • human data communities using GA4GH standards
  • ELIXIR AAI services that rely on GA4GH passports

Find out more

Help needed from Data Management and Data Stewardship trainers!

Take part in a short survey that will help the ELIXIR Training Platform and ELIXIR-CONVERGE WP2 team assess the pedagogical challenges and needs that you are facing as well as your profile. Please share.

Take the survey

Updates from Communities

Introducing two new Food and Nutrition Community co-leads

Jildau Bouwman (ELIXIR NL - TNO Senior Scientist and Programme Leader Digital Health Technologies) will be joined by two new co-leads to lead the ELIXIR Food & Nutrition Community:

  • Frdrique Lisacek (ELIXIR-CH, SIB Group Leader, Proteome Informatics Group)
  • Jan Stanstrup (ELIXIR-DK, Assistant professor in Preventive and Clinical Nutrition at University of Copenhagen)

Find out more about the new Food and Nutrition Community

The Food & Nutrition Community has launched their Community Implementation Study Food & Nutrition: Microbiome - Diet - health

Find out more about this Community and sign-up to their mailing list to hear about upcoming community meetings on the Food and Nutrition webpage.
View the Food and Nutrition Community webpage

Register now for the second Galaxy Training Network Smrgsbord event

Join the Galaxy Training Network for this global 5-day Galaxy Training event showcasing a wide variety of Galaxy Training Network tutorials. This will be an online event, spanning all time zones. Topics for this year include:

  • Intro to Galaxy
  • NGS
  • RNA-Seq
  • Single Cell
  • Proteomics
  • New: SARS-CoV-2 Genomics
  • New: Galaxy Admin Training

Find out more and register

Updates from Focus Groups

FAIR Training Focus Group - meeting on "How to develop FAIR training materials"

13 January 2022 If you are interested to contribute, sign up for the FG mailing list or drop the group a message in the ELIXIR Slack channel #fg_fairtraining.
Find out more

Updates from Nodes

A new Beacon discovery service for genome data - including 20 million genomic variants

The Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) and CSC have launched a new Beacon discovery series for genome data, fully integrated with the ELIXIR Beacon Network. The new data includes 20 million genomic variants for 105,000 Finnish sample donors as part of the FinnGen project.

Read all about it

Updates from other initiatives

Get an introduction to GA4GH in their 101 Webinar

27 January 2022 | 16:00 EST/21:00 UTC | Virtual

The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) hosts quarterly GA4GH 101 webinars to help members of the genomics and health community learn more about GA4GH and get involved in its work.

Register here

Explore the capabilities of NIH's Global Data Search

19 January 2022 | Virtual The American National Institute of Health's (NIH) Office for Data Science Strategy (ODSS) is hosting a two day workshop on their Global Data Search, the first day of which is open to the public.

The goal of the Workshop is to explore current capabilities, gaps and opportunities for global data search across the data ecosystem, with a focus on patient data.

Find out more and register

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

Introduction to high-performance computing - registration, course information

27 - 28 January | Hybrid - Ljubljana, Slovenia & Virtual

A guided tour through Cellosaurus

14 February 2022 | 15.00-17:30 CET | Virtual

Mining enzyme data in UniProtKB using Rhea (lecture)

24 February 2022 | 15.00-18:00 CET | Virtual

Single-cell transcriptomics

28 February 2 March 2022 | Virtual

Mining enzyme data in UniProtKB using Rhea (practicals)

3 March 2022 | 15:00 - 18:00 CET | Virtual

ELIXIR Events and Conferences

Getting started with impact evaluation

21 January 2022 | 10:00 CET

Intrinsically Disordered Proteins (IDP) Community meeting

25 January | 14:30 - 16:30 CET

IDP function and interoperability workshop

26 January | 14:00 - 18:00 CET

ELIXIR-CONVERGE SIB workshop: Research Data Management and Data Management Plan

27-28 January 2022| Lausanne, Switzerland

Emerging Systems Biology Community: white paper writing workshop

8 February | 14:00 - 17:00 CET

Microbial Biotechnology Community meeting

10 February | 14:00 - 17:00 CET

ELIXIR All Hands meeting 2022

7-10 June 2022 | Amsterdam, Netherlands

Job vacancies

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Postdoc within Bioinformatics

University of Bergen / Earth Biogenome Project Norway