Weekly Brief, 2 August 2021

Hiring at the Hub

Legal Officer

Deadline 18 August

Scientific Officer: Human Genomics and Translational Data

Deadline 25 August

Programme Manager: Human Genomics and Translational Data

Deadline 29 August

Recommended read of the week

DOME: recommendations for supervised machine learning validation in biology

A Nature Methods paper from the ELIXIR Machine Learning Focus Group

DOME is a set of community-wide recommendations for reporting supervised machine learning-based analyses applied to biological studies. Broad adoption of these recommendations will help improve machine learning assessment and reproducibility
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In silico saturation mutagenesis of cancer genes

A Nature publication from ELIXIR Spain

Despite the existence of good catalogues of cancer genes, identifying the specific mutations of those genes that drive tumorigenesis across tumour types is still a largely unsolved problem. As a result, most mutations identified in cancer genes across tumours are of unknown significance to tumorigenesis. We propose that the mutations observed in thousands of tumoursnatural experiments testing their oncogenic potential replicated across individuals and tissuescan be exploited to solve this problem.
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Updates from Nodes

Invitation | Health-RI geared up to accelerate

5 October 2021 | Utrecht, NL

The meeting will take place at Jaarbeurs Media Plaza in Utrecht, NL.
Join to contribute to a national health data infrastructure for research and innovation.
Save the date and register

Updates from Platforms

Update | Training Platform achievements at ISMB/ECCB

On 26 July 2021

Presented the results of the Bioinformatics Education Summit 2021, co-organized by ELIXIR in May 2021.
View the results
In collaboration with the Australian BioCommons, the Training Platform organised a workshop on Education in Bioinformatics: Making training materials FAIR experiences, challenges, solutions.
View the workshop's materials
GOBLET had an Exhibitor Booth.
View the GOBLET presentation

Save the date! GOBLET Annual General Meeting 2021

11-15 October 2021 | Online

Please save the date and stay tuned for updates. Registration will open soon!

Updates from Communities

Galaxy Video tutorials

More than 75 hours of Galaxy tutorials have been produced in 130 videos between the GTN Smrgsbord hosted in February, and the Galaxy Community Conference last month. The 10 days worth of content covers a wide array of scientific topics from SARS-CoV-2 to Machine Learning to Climate change, and of course, plenty of *omics! New this year was the addition of a Developer focused track teaching the ins and outs of Vue and Galaxy development.
View all the online materials

Updates from other initiatives

Community review | How to be FAIR with your research data a teaching and training handbook for HEIs

Deadline 12 September 2021

FAIRsFAIR is opening for community review the draft on How to be FAIR with your research data a teaching and training handbook for HEIs.

Written by a group of about 40 collaborators via a book sprint event, the next iteration of the handbook will be presented at the workshop on Practical implementation of FAIR-related content in university curricula and teaching.

Read the draft
For further inquiries, contact Claudia Engelhardt

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 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 until 8 August

BioHackathon Europe 2021

8-12 November 2021 | Hybrid Barcelona, Spain
Registration is 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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