Weekly Brief, 20 April 2020

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.

Submit your proposals here

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:

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.

Submit here your collection

Tip of the Week

We have some tips for remote workers that are still struggling to adapt to the new situation

Updates from Nodes

ELIXIR Finland publishes an article on measuring and analysing metabolic changes caused by illnesses, diet or medication.

Read it here

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.

Register here now

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.

Find here more information

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.

Find here more information

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