Weekly Brief, 18 May 2020

ELIXIR's COVID-19 Communications Plan

We are making available our communications plan to disseminate ELIXIR's research and efforts related to COVID-19.

We want your feedback on this and encourage you to leave your comments on the strategy document.

Read here the full Communications Plan

New Publication on Nature's Scientific Data Journal

On the 5th of May, a publication was released outlining the COVID-19 Disease Map project in Nature's Scientific Data Journal.

A few weeks ago, this international collaboration started among more than 100 institutes to work on the biological pathways behind COVID-19. The combined efforts encompass 25 countries around the world, including partners from Reactome, WikiPathways, IMEx Consortium, Pathway Commons, DisGeNET, ELIXIR, and the Disease Maps Community.

Read here the full paper

Read here the news release

New Publication on Nature's European Journal of Human Genetics

Last week, an ELIXIR paper was published in the European Journal of Human Genetics (EJHG). The article highlights ELIXIR's response against COVID-19, connecting data, tools and people across Europe.

We showcase the COVID-19 work of the ELIXIR Nodes and how we will link it to the Interconnected European Data Spaces.

Read here the full paper

COVID-19 Updates

OUR DEDICATED WEBSITE

We have created an ELIXIR COVID-19 webpage to list all ELIXIR services that support researchers working on SARS-CoV-2. The site will be updated periodically to display new resources.

You can track our advance on compiling COVID-19 projects by accessing our shared document that includes all services and initiatives from the Nodes.

This is an internal document. Please, do not share outside ELIXIR.

ELIXIR COVID-19 SLACK WORKSPACE

Please, use this to discuss and exchange ideas on SARS-CoV-2 research initiatives, consider collaboration opportunities across ELIXIR Nodes and share results of your work on COVID-19 with other ELIXIR members.

If you haven't joined the workspace yet, don't forget to connect with us on Slack or email Katharina Lauer to be part of the conversation

SELECTED NATIONAL INITIATIVES

ELIXIR UK is running the FAIRDOM-SEEK platform

The FAIRDOM-SEEK platform is a web-based resource for sharing heterogeneous scientific research datasets, models or simulations, processes and research outcomes. It is currently used in the COVID-19 Disease Map

ELIXIR Sweden is planning the collection of human sequences

The Swedish Node plans to gather human sequences (e.g. proteomics, serology) to store it securely in a local instance of the European Genome phenome Archive (EGA).

Tip of the Week

Did you know you have access to the publication principles to cite work funded by ELIXIR?

Updates from Communities

New Galaxy Webinar Series on workflows for SARS-CoV-2 data

Session 4: Evolution of the Virus

20 May 2020 | 17.0018.00 CEST

Session 5: Deployment

28 May 2020 | 17.0018.00 CEST 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.

EBIF Series | Open source software in the life sciences

28 May 2020 | Online

ELIXIR All Hands Meeting

810 June 2020 | Online

Galaxy introduction for life scientists

17 June 2020 | Online

EBIF Series | Large scale cloud computing in the life sciences

23 June 2020 | Online

ELIXIR Events and Conferences

19th European Conference on Computational Biology

59 September 2020 | Sitges, Barcelona, Spain

ELIXIR BioHakacthon Europe

913 November 2020 | Barcelona, Spain Job vacancies

Job vacancies

All vacancies are also published on the ELIXIR website vacancies section (also including vacancies from industry). Submit vacancies from your Node or industry partners.
Natural Language Processing engineer position at the Integrative Biomedical Informatics group
Research Programme on Biomedical Informatics (GRIB)

Angular GUI developer position at the PharmacoInformatics group
Research Programme on Biomedical Informatics (GRIB)

Research Engineer at the INB Computational team
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS) - part of ELIXIR-ES

Bioinformatics Data Analyst at the INB/ELIXIR-ES coordination team
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS) - part of ELIXIR-ES

Bioinformatics Post-doc - Single Cell RNAseq of innate immune cells
Bordeaux Bioinformatics Center (CBiB)
 

Updates from other initiatives

We recommend you the RI-PATHS' webinars

They are inviting research infrastructures, funding agencies, policymakers, impact analysts and other potential user communities to three dedicated online webinars on A European framework for socio-economic impact of research infrastructures: A way forward.

Advances in the field of socio-economic impact assessment of Research Infrastructures: What it helps in practice?

22 June 2020 | 10 am1 pm CET

Next steps in mainstreaming sound and feasible impact assessment requirements for RIs

24 June 2020 | 2.30 pm4.30 pm CET

Spotlight on impact pathway insights: What RIs have learned about their impact and impact study requirements?