Weekly Brief, 19 July 2021

This week's highlights

Don't miss the chance to apply for the ELIXIR Knowledge Exchange Scheme

Deadline 31 October 2021

The EKES covers travel and accommodation expenses and salaries of ELIXIR members to work on a collaborative project with an industry partner.
For 2021, we will allow salary costs up to 1 PM to be included in the project proposal. This new possibility has been introduced to facilitate knowledge exchange amid travel restrictions.
Find out more about how to apply

Help shape the next Interoperability Platform Workshop

This autumn, the ELIXIR Interoperability Platform will be organising a workshop on the FAIRification of genomic tracks (genome browser data) using FAIRtracks, an ELIXIR Recommended Interoperability Resource.
If you have used genome browsers or genomics track files, and wish it was easier to find, access, interoperate with and reuse these, you can help shape the workshop and influence the further development of FAIRtracks.
Complete the short survey

Are you interested in the performance and impact of research infrastructures?

We gather a relevant list of bibliography related to the performance and impact of research infrastructures.
For more about impact, visit or join the Impact Focus Group

Mutational signatures and heterogeneous host response revealed via large-scale characterization of SARS-CoV-2 genomic diversity

Supported by ELIXIR Italy

'To dissect the mechanisms underlying the inflation of variants in the SARS-CoV-2 genome, we present a large-scale analysis of intra-host genomic diversity, which reveals that most samples exhibit heterogeneous genomic architectures, due to the interplay between host-related mutational processes and transmission dynamics.'
Continue reading..

Updates from Nodes

ELIXIR Greece launches the national instance of the COVID-19 Data Portal

With Greece launching their national instance, the total number of COVID-19 National Data Portals raises to 10.
Discover the new portal

Updates from Focus Groups

RDA Focus Group

Report available for the 17th RDA Plenary meeting

In April, the 17th RDA Plenary meeting was held virtually with the theme 'Opening data for global challenges'.
The report is now available on the RDA Focus Group Intranet area.
Read the report (login required)

Updates from other initiatives

T7 Workshop Provenance for Transparent Research

Part of the Provenance Week 2021

You will discuss how methods for automated provenance (capture, storage, query, inference and visualisation) can make research more transparent and, therefore, increase the trustworthiness of results that are easier to evaluate

Featuring EOSC-Life lightning talks, the T7 Workshop is free for all attendees.
Register now
Read the programme

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 Linux

24-26 August 2021 | Online

First steps with R in Life Sciences

6-7 September 2021 | Online

NGS - Genome variant analysis course

16-17 September 2021 | Online

First steps with Python in life sciences

29 September-1 October 2021 | Online

ELIXIR Events and Conferences

Innovation and SME Forum | Building the learning ecosystem of health: from data tracking to preventive medicine

13 September 2021 | At the [BC]2 Conference, Basel, Switzerland
(virtual participation also available)

UK Conference of bioinformatics and computational biology 2021

28-30 September 2021 | Virtual
You can also submit an abstract for a poster or short talk

BioHackathon Europe 2021

8-12 November 2021 | Hybrid Barcelona, Spain
Registration now open!

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

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