This week's highlights
Explore ELIXIR industry map
This interactive map includes a short summary of industry engagement schemes, services, activities and projects carried out by ELIXIR Nodes. The live map will be updated regularly with new activities and actions.
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Joint webinar between ELIXIR and Jawaharlal Nehru University
17 August 2022 | 11:00 CEST
ELIXIR is holding our first joint webinar with Jawaharlal Nehru University from India. The webinar will focus on Data management, human data and infectious diseases: Opportunities for engagement.
Join the ELIXIR IDP community webinar on DisProt
16 & 23 August 2022 | 15:00 CEST
Join us and researcher from ELIXIR-IT to find out more about Database of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins (DisProt).
Recommended reads
Expanding the Galaxys reference data
An EOSC-Life paper
Properly and effectively managing reference datasets is an important task for many bioinformatics analyses. Refgenie is a reference asset management system that allows users to easily organize, retrieve and share such datasets. Here, the authors describe the integration of refgenie into the Galaxy platform. Server administrators are able to configure Galaxy to make use of reference datasets made available on a refgenie instance. In addition, a Galaxy Data Manager tool has been developed to provide a graphical interface to refgenies remote reference retrieval functionality. A large collection of reference datasets has also been made available using the CernVM File System repository from GalaxyProject.org, with mirrors across the USA, Canada, Europe and Australia, enabling easy use outside of Galaxy.
Yeast as a Model to Unravel New BRCA2 Functions in Cell Metabolism
A research supported by ELIXIR
Mutations in BRCA2 gene increase the risk for breast cancer and for other cancer types, including pancreatic and prostate cancer. The precise mechanism by which BRCA2 exerts its tumor suppressor function remains unclear. In this paper, the authors hypothesize that BRCA2 is a multifunctional protein which exerts specific functions depending on cell stress response pathway. Based on a differential RNA sequencing analysis carried out on yeast cells either growing or undergoing a regulated cell death process, either in the absence or in the presence of BRCA2, the authors suggest that BRCA2 causes central carbon metabolism reprogramming in response to death stimuli and encourage further investigation on the role of metabolic reprogramming in BRCA2 oncosuppressive function.
Updates from Nodes
ELIXIR-UK presented at B4BB
Professor Carole Goble from ELIXIR-UK gave a presentation at B4BB: Bioinformatics for BioBusiness SME FORUM 2022. The presentations are available to view via the link below until 20 July. These presentations will be posted to B4BB website in due course for future reference.
Link to the slides
Updates from Platforms
Training Gap Analysis
Deadline: 20 July 2022
The ELIXIR Training platform would like your input to help identify potential gaps in current training in Life Sciences across Europe, and to continue taking measures to fill the gaps identified with appropriate training.
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Updates from Other Initiatives
FASEB: Call for Evaluators
The DataWorks! Prize Team is seeking researchers in the biological and biomedical research community to participate as evaluators for the DataWorks! Prize. Evaluators will spend 5-8 hours completing their evaluations and will be compensated $200 for completing round one evaluation. Please email dataworks@faseb.org if you have any questions.
Join the evaluation team
More about the challenge
COVID-19 Genomics Global Training looking for trainers and country hosts
COG-Train is looking for trainers and country hosts across Africa, Asia and Latin America to facilitate bioinformatics training in Distributed Classrooms.
Expression of interest form
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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
ELIXIR Train the Trainer
19-22 July 2022 | Hybrid - Heidelberg, Germany & Online
ELIXIR Webinar: An introduction to DisProt
16 August 2022 | 15:00 CEST
SIB: Advanced Statistics: Statistical Modelling
22 - 25 August 2022 | Lausanne, Switzerland
ELIXIR Webinar: Exploring structural and functional annotations of IDPs with DisProt
23 August 2022 | 15:00 CEST
SIB: Advanced Programming with R
29-31 August 2022 | Lausanne, Switzerland
SIB: Introduction to RNA-Seq: From quality control to pathway analysis
1-2 September 2022 | Basel, Switzerland
SIB: Comparative Genomics
12-14 September 2022 | Lausanne, Switzerland
SIB: Good practice in high-throughput experiments
19-20 September 2022 | Basel, Switzerland
ELIXIR Events and Conference
ELIXIR Innovation and SME Forum: Data driven innovation in healthcare diagnostics
22 September 2022 | 10:00 to 19:00 CEST | Barcelona, Spain
ELIXIR Bioinformatics Industry Forum: Enabling Ecosystems for Machine Learning in the Life Sciences
11 October 2022 | 10:00 to 16:00 CEST | London, UK
BioHackathon Europe
7-11 November 2022 | Paris, France
Job vacancies
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PhD students at the Molecular Modeling and Bioinformatics research group
Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona)
Bioinformatician at the Bioinformatics Unit
Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO)
Bioinformatician (m/f/d)
Senckenberg Gesellschaft fr Naturforschung
Data Stewards with focus on human data
NBIS / ELIXIR-SE
1-2 bioinformaticians in genome assembly
Uppsala University