Celebrate the Open Access Week with us
#ELIXIROAweek
This week is the Open Access Weekan annual event focused on open access and related topics. It takes place globally during the last full week of October. The 10th Open Access Week builds a unique momentum to advance policy changes, stimulate the research community or reach the general public.
Get involved. Your participation can be as simple or complex as you want. From creating a Think Tank to sharing your support on social media.
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TOMORROW | First online meeting
Communications Group
The ELIXIR Communications Group will be meeting tomorrow afternoon for the first time to find gaps, share ideas, build a strong network of communicators and to draw the agenda and priorities of the Communications Group for the coming months.
If you are responsible for the communications at your Node and you haven't received an invitation:
- Contact us at xenia.sitja@elixir-europe.org
- or join the Communications Slack Workspace
Tip of the week
Did you know you can use our ELIXIR coordinated backgrounds for your Zoom calls?
Orange or Blue?
Updates from Nodes
ELIXIR DE | Join the de.NBI industry forum
26 November 2020 | Online
The annual meeting of the de.NBI (ELIXIR-DE) industry forum will take place online and is open to all interested scientists or companies.
Register now
Professionalising data stewardship
Competences, training and education
At last week's FAIRsFAIR workshop on FAIR competences for higher education, DTL/ELIXIR-NL gave a presentation on professionalising data stewardship (competences, training and education). The workshop was part of the FAIRsFAIR work on skills and training.
View the presentation
Read more about the FAIRsFAIR workshop
Maastricht University participates in EpiLipidNET COST action
New pan-European network
EpiLipidNET COST action, which started on 13 October, will run for four years to create a pan-European network of researchers, clinicians and enterprises working in the field of lipidomics and epilipidomics. It includes five interactive working groups around analytical methods, computational approaches, clinical significance and applications, lipid signalling and mechanisms of action, and dissemination and outreach.
Find out more about EpiLipidNET COST action
ELIXIR-PT | Article in Frontiers in Plant Sciences
'The chloroplast land plant phylogeny: analyses employing better-fitting tree- and site-heterogeneous composition models'
Cymon Cox, the Marine Metagenomics Community coordinator from ELIXIR-PT, recently published an article in Frontiers in Plant Science. The study was partially supported by CRESC Algarve 2020 through the BioDataPT project.
ELIXIR-UK launches two new working groups
These two groups aim to bring together researchers from ELIXIR-UK member organisations across the UK. Their objective is to foster collaboration and enable researchers working in training and data management to produce informative materials for ELIXIR-UK and the wider community.
Updates from Communities
White Paper from the ELIXIR Human Copy Number Variations Community
Building bioinformatics infrastructure for research
The hCNV White Paper is now published on F1000 Research
Read it. Download it. Share it
Your feedback needed | Sequence and structure data visualisation survey
Deadline is tomorrow
The 3D-BioInfo Community wants to assess the current state of common visualisation tools and practices. Responses will help identify common visualisation practices for displaying structural and functional annotations, and gaps that could form the basis of future work in the community.
Go to the survey
Updates from other initiatives
First EUCANCan community engagement webinar
International Data Sharing of Cancer Genomic Data
3 November 2020 | 3-5 pm CET, Online
GOBLET Annual Global Meeting
Presentations and recordings are now available
GOBLET is happy to report that you can now find all presentations and recordings (as YouTube playlist) of the virtual Annual Global Meeting last September.
Download the slides and watch the YouTube playlist
If you want to know more and get involved in GOBLET, don't hesitate to reach out. Get in touch at info@mygoblet.org
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. A link off to the TeSS portal
Using competencies to guide training and professional development
12 October 2020 | Online
The BioData.pt Plant Sciences Community
22 October 2020 | Online
Metagenomics bioinformatics Workshop
26 November 2020 | Online
First Steps with Python in Life Sciences
13 December 2020 | Lausanne, Switzerland
NGSGenome variant analysis
89 December 2020 | Bern, Switzerland
First Steps with R in Life Sciences
1718 December 2020 | Zurich, Switzerland
ELIXIR Events and Conferences
EBIF 2020 Series | Commercialisation of Research in Bioinformatics
29 October 2020 | Online
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
Scientific Data Programmer at the Disease Systems Biology Programme at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research
The Disease Systems Biology Programme, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, University of Copenhagen
Single Cell Genomics Computational Biologist
Centre for Genomic Regulation
Computer scientist (m/f/d) as ELIXIR Germany Platform Manager (Compute, Data, Interoperability, Tools, Training)
Center for Biotechnology (CeBiTec)
Postdoctoral Position at the Cellular and Systems Neurobiology Lab
Centre for Genomic Regulation
Funds Manager
Centre for Genomic Regulation