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
Recommended read of the week
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
DevOps Engineer (Research & Development specialist)
University of Luxembourg
Research Software Engineer (Designing Future Wheat)
Earlham Institute
1-2 System developer with operational responsibility
Uppsala University
PhD student - Phylogenomics (R1)
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS)
Postdoctoral researcher - Phylogenomics (R2)
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS)