The EC publishes COVID-19 Action Plan
ELIXIR and Partners will be key to develop two of the main key action points of the European Commission Plan to tackle the pandemic:
- Point 8. Access to Research Infrastructures
- Point 9. Research Data Sharing Platform
Read the full Action Plan here
As part of Point 9, today EMBL-EBI launched the European COVID-19 Data Portal, in collaboration with the European Commission, The European Open Science Cloud and ELIXIR
Read EBI's news release here
Watch the EC President message here
Hacking the pandemic
Virtual COVID-19 BioHackathon Outcomes
After a highly productive week of hacking that culminated on Saturday 11th of April, we can now show the outcomes from the combined efforts of the ELIXIR members.
Read the full news release here
#COVID_19_BH20 Follow the conversation
ELIXIR BioHackathon Europe: Final Call Reminder
The extended deadline for the call for project proposals is approaching. It will close on the 30th of April.
ECCB2020 | COVID-19 Important updates and Final Call Reminders
The ECCB publishes an open statement on COVID-19 to highlight their constant monitoring of the pandemic and their recent commitment to create a fast track call for proceedings related to COVID-19
Read it here
Deadlines approaching:
- 22 April | Call for Highlights
- 22 April | Call for Proceedings
- 30 April | Call for COVID 19 Proceedings (hard deadline)
COVID-19 Updates
OUR DEDICATED WEBSITE
We have created an ELIXIR COVID-19 webpage to list all ELIXIR services that support researchers working on SARS-CoV-2. The site will be updated periodically to display new resources.
You can track our advance on compiling COVID-19 projects by accessing our shared document that includes all services and initiatives from the Nodes.
This is an internal document. Please, do not share outside ELIXIR.
ELIXIR COVID-19 SLACK WORKSPACE
Please, use this to discuss and exchange ideas on SARS-CoV-2 research initiatives, consider collaboration opportunities across ELIXIR Nodes and share results of your work on COVID-19 with other ELIXIR members.
If you haven't joined the workspace yet, don't forget to connect with us on Slack or email Katharina Lauer to be part of the conversation
SELECTED NATIONAL INITIATIVES
ELIXIR LUX Builds the National Health Platform for COVID-19
Research Luxembourg and its COVID-19 Task Force have launched a national COVID-19 platform to support the research community and foster collaboration.
ELIXIR ITA Updates Galaxy workflows for SARS-CoV-2
Laniakea updates Galaxy COVID-19 flavour with new tools and workflows.
ELIXIR NL | BBMRI-nl Catalogue updated with a COVID-19 filter
The BBMRI-nl Catalogue provides an overview of most Dutch bio-and databanks making visible the data, biobanks or sample collections related to COVID-19.
Tip of the Week
Updates from Nodes
ELIXIR Finland publishes an article on measuring and analysing metabolic changes caused by illnesses, diet or medication.
Updates from Platforms
ELIXIR Webinar: Exploring connected data ecosystems with scientific literature
22 April 2020 | 10:00 CET
In this Wednesday's webinar, we will host Aravind Venkatesan (EMBL-EBI) presenting Europe PMC services for linking biological data with scientific literature.
Now Online. Interoperability Platform F2F Meeting
1112 May 2020 | Online
This meeting is open to EVERYONE in ELIXIR. We will be focusing on Interoperability activities to support COVID-19 research such as emergency data sharing plan, Bioschemas for the discoverability of dataset by Gene/Protein information, and the FAIRness of COVID-19 datasets.
Register here before the 30th of April
Find here the work-in-process programme
Share here ideas of hands-on Interoperability topics
Nominating Training Platform ExCo
Invitation for nominations for the ELIXIR Training Platform ExCo position is now open.
Course on Open Science: Sharing Your Research with the World
Starts on 6 May 2020 | Online
This MOOC covers an introduction to Open Science, Research Data Management, open access to publications, how to increase research(ers) visibility and impact and get to know the benefits of working within Virtual Research Environment.
The course is open to anyone and completely free.
Updates from Focus Groups
Health Data focus group TC meeting
22 April 2020 | 1:002:00 pm CET
The Health Data Focus Group has decided to include COVID-19 as a use case. You can join the conversation or sing up to the dedicated mailing list of the focus group.
Register here for the online meeting
Add here suggestions for the discussion
Sing up here to the focus group mailing list
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.
ELIXIR Webinar: Exploring connected data ecosystems with scientific literature
22 April 2020 | 10:00 CET
Online ELIXIR Bioinformatics Industry Forum
28 April 2020 | Online
Course on Open Science: Sharing Your Research with the World
Starts on 6 May 2020 | Online
Online Interoperability Platform Meeting
1112 May 2020 | Online
ELIXIR Events and Conferences
19th European Conference on Computational Biology
59 September 2020 | Sitges, Barcelona, Spain
ELIXIR BioHakacthon Europe
913 November 2020 | Barcelona, Spain Job vacancies
All vacancies are also published on the ELIXIR website vacancies section (also including vacancies from industry).
Submit vacancies from your Node or industry partners.
Post-doc position in protein bioinformatics
SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Bioinformatician, genomic analyses of pediatric sarcomas
Princess Mxima Center for Pediatric Oncology
Research Associate for the area of cloud computing (m / f / d)
Bielefeld University/ CeBiTec/ de.NBI
Data scientist for big data analysis in the life sciences (m / f / d)
Bielefeld University/ CeBiTec/ de.NBI
Computer scientist (m / f / d) as ELIXIR Germany Platform Manager (Compute, Data, Interoperability, Tools, Training)
Bielefeld University/ CeBiTec/ de.NBI