This week's highlights
New ELIXIR Toxicology Community
A new Community has been formed to represent toxicology, the study of the negative consequences of the interaction of chemicals and living things, and the safety of those chemicals.
Toxicology research is important because it provides information to regulatory agencies and decision makers to prevent or reduce exposure to toxic substances and improve public and environmental health.
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Find out about Hub new joiners
Over the past five months, ELIXIR has welcomed five new staff to the Hub. Find out more about their backgrounds and their roles in ELIXIR.
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Recommended reads
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Road to FAIR genomes: a gap analysis of NGS data generation and sharing in the Netherlands
An ELIXIR-NL paper
This study investigates current standards and operational gaps in the management and sharing of next generation sequencing (NGS) data within the healthcare and research setting and according to Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) principles. Based on this analysis and as part of this programme, a consortium was formed to develop an instruction manual for FAIR genomic data in clinical care and research based on an inventory of commonly used workflows and standards in the (inter)national field of genome analysis. The gap analysis represents the starting point for this inventory and is a possible contribution from the Netherlands to the European 1+ Million Genomes Initiative. This paper addresses the topics of data generation, data quality, (meta)data standards, data storage and archiving and data integration and exchange.
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Recommendations for connecting molecular sequence and biodiversity research infrastructures through ELIXIR
A Biodiversity Focus Group paper
Threats to global biodiversity are increasingly recognised by scientists and the public as a critical challenge. Molecular sequencing technologies offer means to catalogue, explore, and monitor the richness and biogeography of life on Earth. To identify opportunities, highlight priorities, and aid strategic thinking, here we survey approaches by which molecular technologies help inform understanding of biodiversity. Together with examples of national biodiversity programmes, the use cases show where progress is being made but also highlight common challenges and opportunities for future enhancement of underlying technologies and services that connect molecular and wider biodiversity domains. Based on emerging themes, we propose key recommendations to guide future funding for biodiversity research.
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Updates from Platforms
Involved in the training or onboarding or Data Stewards or Data Managers?
Deadline 13 May
As part of the ELIXIR-CONVERGE theme Hackathons to create training materials, you are invited to take part in a survey about Data Steward and Data Manager onboarding processes.
Please spread the word within your ELIXIR Node and other life science research organisations!
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Updates from Communities
Registration deadlines approaching for Galaxy Community Conference
17-23 July | Minnesota, USA
- 12 May - Early registration ends
- 14 June - Full registration ends
Catch up on Galaxy Europe news reports
- Towards a sustainable storage, enabling co-financing of public infrastructure, Bjrn Grning - read more
- Complete human genome T2T-CHM13v2.0 available in Galaxy - read more
Updates from Focus Groups
Open call: RDA cross-disciplinary adoption in support of EOSC
Deadline 11 July
The EOSC Future project and Research Data Alliance (RDA) are launching an open call for RDA cross-disciplinary adoption in support of EOSC.
Small community projects are invited to test out and adapt community-led and cross-disciplinary best practices within the EOSC environment, in line with RDA outputs and recommendations.
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Updates from other initiatives
EOSC Synergy blog: Science education - working towards a FAIR and open future
Find out about ELIXIR's input into the development of a sustainable infrastructure for open learning in the European Open Science Cloud.
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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
Gentle hands-on introduction to Python programming
4,11,18 May 2022 | Virtual
Nordic train-the-trainer course
10-13 May 2022 (half days)| Virtual | Deadline to apply: 3 April
10th RepeatExplorer workshop on the application of NGS to repetitive DNA
24-26 May 2022 | esk Budjovice, Czech Republic
3rd hands-on computational enzyme design workshop
30 May - 1 June 2022 | Virtual
Intermediate Python
3 June 2022 | Bern, Switzerland
Functional exploration of genetic variants in cardiac diseases
14-15 June | Lyon, France | Apply by 1 May
Summer school on genetic epidemiology
29 June - 2 July 2022 | Davos, Switzerland
ELIXIR Events and Conference
FAIRplus Innovation and SME forum 2022
17 May 2022 | Hybrid - Berlin, Germany
ELIXIR All Hands meeting 2022
7-10 June 2022 | Amsterdam, Netherlands
BioHackathon Europe
7-11 November 2022 | Paris, France
Job vacancies
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PhD Positions in Computational Research, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)
Data steward
Radboudumc