This week's highlights
ELIXIRs role in shaping policy
Publicly funded research infrastructures, such as ELIXIR, enable the creation of scientific knowledge and drive innovation. Due to both the substantial public investment necessary for their creation and maintenance, and the significance of their contribution to the scientific community, research infrastructures have a role to play in public policy.
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Recommended reads
An iterative and interdisciplinary categorisation process towards FAIRer digital resources for sensitive life-sciences data
A EJP RD | EOSC-Life paper
For life science infrastructures, sensitive data generate an additional layer of complexity. Cross-domain categorisation and discovery of digital resources related to sensitive data presents major interoperability challenges. To support this FAIRification process, a toolbox demonstrator aiming at support for discovery of digital objects related to sensitive data has been developed. The toolbox is based upon a categorisation system developed and harmonised across a cluster of 6 life science research infrastructures.
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Extensive proteome and functional genomic profiling of variability between genetically identical human B-lymphoblastoid cells
An ELIXIR-HU paper
In life-science research isogenic B-lymphoblastoid cell lines (LCLs) are widely known and preferred for their genetic stability. In this paper, the authors present additional datasets generated with Next Generation Sequencing techniques to provide genomic and transcriptomic profiles, protein-DNA interactions, together with mass spectrometry and flow cytometry datasets to monitor the changes in the proteome. These datasets were shared with the scientific community according to the FAIR principles.
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Updates from Nodes
Federated EGA video - a resource for discovery and access of human data across national borders
In 2022, Federated EGA was launched as a resource for discovery and access to human omics data through a network of national data archives, while also respecting jurisdictional data protection regulations. A new Federated EGA video introducing benefits of being part of the Federated EGA network was published on YouTube.
Updates from Communities
Reminder: Call for new ELIXIR Single Cell Omics Community co-lead
Deadline: 7 August 2023
The ELIXIR Single Cell Omics Community is looking for one new co-lead to join the Community leadership team (Eija Korpelainen & Naveed Ishaque). Candidates should submit a short statement of their background and what they believe they will bring to the role.
A big thank you to Paulo Czarnewski for his work as a co-lead and we wish him all the best as he moves to a new role.
For any questions or nominations, please contact clare.garrard [at] elixir-europe.org (Clare Garrard)
Reminder: Provide your feedback on the emerging Microbiome Community White Paper
Deadline: 11 August 2023
The emerging ELIXR Microbiome Community is presenting its White Paper draft for consultation and feedback. Please add your comments directly to the pdf document or send to clare.garrard [at] elixir-europe.org (Clare Garrard)
Register for the federated human data (FHD) Community meeting
16-17 November 2023 | Hybrid - Barcelona, Spain
Registration deadline: 04 October (in person) | 16 November (online)
The federated human data (FHD) Community will hold its F2F/hybrid Meeting in November. The meeting is held right after the GDI General Assembly and will include presentations, breakout sessions, and dedicated Birds of a Feather professional networking time.
More information & Registration
Register for the 3D BioInfo Community meeting
15 - 17 November 2023 | Hybrid - Prague, Czech Republic
Registration deadline: 17 August (in person) | online registration will open closer in time
The 3D BioInfo Community will hold its F2F/hybrid Meeting in November. The meeting is a part of a larger event, coordinate jointly by the ELIXIR 3D BioInfo Community together with the 3D-SIG Structural Bioinformatics Community of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB).
There will be time for updates, presentations, progress reports, posters and discussions.
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Updates from Focus Groups
RDA Plenary 21: ELIXIR Travel Grant Now Open
Deadline: 7 August 2023
Applications are now open for the ELIXIR travel grant funded attendance of RDA Plenary 21, 23-26 October 2023. Please note that the official registration deadline for the RDA Plenary 21 event is 20 October 2023.
Further information on ELIXIR Travel Grant Scheme
Submit your travel grant application via SurveyMonkey
EOSC Symposium 2023: ELIXIR Travel Grant Now Open
Deadline: 7 August 2023
Applications are now open for the ELIXIR travel grant funded attendance of EOSC Symposium 2023. Please note that the official registration deadline for the EOSC Symposium event is 31 July 2023.
Submit your travel grant application via SurveyMonkey
Updates from other initatives
New RDA Working Group on managing and integrating multi-omics data
10:00-11:00 & 18:00-19:00 CEST | 7 September 2023
An RDA Working Group is being set up to create recommendations and best practices for the management of multi-omics data. The RDA Secretariat invites all interested parties to join a 1-hour virtual brainstorming workshop to discuss the RDA-OfR WG aims and objectives and the feedback will be used to define the group case statement.
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Toolkit showcases data solutions for pandemic preparedness
The Infectious Diseases Toolkit (IDTk) is a community-driven resource developed as part of the BY-COVID project. Following a successful "contentathon", the IDTk has expanded its initial content offering and laid the foundation for further growth.
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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
SIB course: R-packing
28 August 2023 | Lausanne, Switzerland
SIB course: Comparative Genomics
30 August - 1 September 2023 | Lausanne, Switzerland
SIB course: Advanced Statistics: Statistical Modelling
4 - 7 September 2023 | Lausanne, Switzerland
SIB course: Introduction to RNA-Seq: From Quality Control to Pathway Analysis
19 - 20 September 2023 | Basel, Switzerland
SIB course: First Steps with Python in Life Sciences
27 - 29 September 2023 | Zurich, Switzerland
SIB course: Introduction to Machine Learning with Python
9 - 10 October 2023 | Zurich, Switzerland
SIB course: Introduction to Containers and Snakemake for Reproducible Research
12 - 13 October 2023 | Davos, Switzerland
EMBL-EBI training: Managing a bioinformatics core facility
7 - 9 November 2023
EMBL-EBI training: Genome bioinformatics: from short- to long-read sequencing
20 - 24 November 2023
ELIXIR Events and Conferences
Emerging Microbiome/Marine Metagenomics Community meeting
12-13 September 2023 | Hybrid - Barcelona, Spain
Biodiversity Community F2F & Implementation Study meeting
13-15 September 2023 | Hybrid - Barcelona, Spain
BioHackathon Europe 2023
30 October - 3 November 2023 | Barcelona, Spain
Job vacancies
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Concorso DDG 701/23
Universit degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro
Researcher (PostDoc Cheminformatics)
Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry (IPB)
ELIXIR Director
ELIXIR Hub
Assistant Professor in Plant Systems, Computational or Synthetic Biology
Maastricht University
PhD position (m/f/d) in Evolutionary Genomics of Vertebrates
Senckenberg Gesellschaft fr Naturforschung