This week's highlights
Read about All Hands 2022
ELIXIRs eighth All Hands meeting was a welcome return to an in-person gathering after two years of virtual events. Read a meeting summary and find links to slides, posters and photos.
Highlights from All Hands 2022
ELIXIR Innovation and SME Forum registration opens
22 September 2022 | Barcelona, Spain
The Forum is co-located with ECCB2022 and aims to bring together researchers from large, medium and small companies and academia who work on services for data management and sharing, as well as people involved in national healthcare initiatives.
More information and registration
ELIXIR Communications Group meeting
27 June 2022 | 14:00 - 15:00 CEST | Online
The ELIXIR Communications Group is a forum to bring together those with expertise and interest in communications. Join us for the first in a new series of quarterly meetings.
More information and join the group
New ELIXIR-related paper on Common Workflow Language
A paper about Common Workflow Language (CWL) was published in the June issue of Communications of the ACM. The paper explains CWL standards and how the CWL project achieved its great success via its core principles of community, shared decision making, reuse, and zero cost for participants.
ECCB 2022 call for posters
Deadline: 30 June 2022
The ECCB2022 Posters Committee invites research posters in any aspect of computational biology to promote lively discussions.
More information
Recommended reads
Selection of data sets for FAIRification in drug discovery and development: Which, why, and how?
A FAIRplus paper
Despite the intuitive value of adopting the Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) principles in both academic and industrial sectors, challenges exist in resourcing, balancing long- versus short-term priorities, and achieving technical implementation. This situation is exacerbated by the unclear mechanisms by which costs and benefits can be assessed when decisions on FAIR are made. Scientific and research and development leadership need reliable evidence of the potential benefits and information on effective implementation mechanisms and remediating strategies. In this article, we describe procedures for costbenefit evaluation, and identify best-practice approaches to support the decision-making process involved in FAIR implementation.
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Galaxy workflows for fragment-based virtual screening: a case study on the SARS-CoV-2 main protease
An EOSC-Life paper
This study presents several workflows for protein-ligand docking and free energy calculation for use in the workflow management system Galaxy. The workflows are composed of several widely used open-source tools, including rDock and GROMACS, and can be executed on public infrastructure using either Galaxys graphical interface or the command line. The authors demonstrate the utility of the workflows by running a high-throughput virtual screening of around 50000 compounds against the SARS-CoV-2 main protease, a system which has been the subject of intense study in the last year.
Updates from Nodes
ELIXIR-CONVERGE FAIR hackathon to create lesson plans
29 June 2022 | Online
Help the organisers create lesson plans for life sciences research organisations to advance the FAIR skills of data stewards and researchers.
Read the program
Registration
Two new papers from the Maastricht ELIXIR-NL team
- CAS Common Chemistry in 2021: Expanding Access to Trusted Chemical Information for the Scientific Community
- The LOTUS initiative for open knowledge management in natural products research.
Updates from Platforms
Communities & Platforms - Training gap analysis
We would like your input to help us identify potential gaps in current training in Life Sciences across Europe, and to continue taking measures to fill the gaps identified with appropriate training.
Fill out the survey
All Hand's presentation on the Training platform available on Zenodo
Building skills for managing and exploiting data in ELIXIR and beyond
- A FAIR training journey
The FAIRsharing Community Curation Programme launches with an award from the RDA/EOSC-Future Ambassadorship programme
Dr. Allyson Lister is the first ELIXIR and Interoperability Platform member receives the RDA/EOSC-Future Domain Ambassador award. Alison will use these funds to launch the FAIRsharing Community Curation Programme.
Find out more
Updates from Communities
New preprint available online
Galaxy Training: A Powerful Framework for Teaching!
The article presents the latest developments in the Galaxy Training Network project, aimed at facilitating the use of the Galaxy Training materials by educators, and its usage in different learning environments.
Survey on MIAPPE
Minimum Information About Plant Phenotyping Experiments (MIAPPE) Steering Committee invite you to share your input and reflect on MIAPPE achievements made over the last three years. The survey will also help to shape MIAPPEs future.
Recorded webinar: Scope and vision of AlphaFold
3D BioInfo Communitys first webinar of the series was well received and now the recording is available online to watch.
Watch the recording
Reminder: Invitation to join the ELIXIR Metabolomics Community F2F/hybrid Meeting
22 & 23 June 2022 | Hybrid - Valencia, Spain
Complete the registration form no later than 22 June for virtual attendance. For invited attendees, you will need to register to confirm your invitation and share additional details.
Find out more and register now
Updates from Focus Groups
Survey on synthetic data for Life Sciences community
The ELIXIR Machine Learning Focus Group is distributing a survey about synthetic data for the LIfe Sciences community. The goal is to identify how the bioinformatics community uses synthetic data in the scope of Machine Learning and their needs on synthetic datasets to advance their research.
Reminder: Join The Biodiversity Focus Group embarked on the journey to become an ELIXIR Community
Next monthly TC: 22 June 2022 | 16:00 CEST
The ELIXIR Head of Nodes recently agreed to support the transition of the Biodiversity Focus Group to become a Community. ELIXIR colleagues are invited to join the group and contribute to its further development by signing up to the Community mailing list on the website. For further information, get in touch with Katharina Heil.
Join this group
Updates from Other Initiatives
New website launch and call to access resources
The ISIDORe website is officially online with the launch of the first call to access the ISIDORe resources dedicated to SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19.
The call is multidisciplinary and open to all scientists both from academia and the private sector, including the partners of the ISIDORe consortium.
Application open: mentoring and training programme
for Open Science ambassadors
Deadline: 7 July 2022
This program will provide a unique opportunity for individuals and teams to integrate best practices for open and reproducible research in new or ongoing projects.
The assessment of research results in EU Framework Programmes for Research
PPMI, a research and consultancy, has recently completed the study commissioned by the Directorate-General for Research and Innovation of the European Commission Assessing the reproducibility of research results in EU Framework Programmes for Research.
Read the report
Register to the final dissemination webinar
Investigating the long-term impact of open sharing commitments
The Wellcome Trust impact report on their open sharing commitment on which ELIXIR consulted has now been published.
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 3D BioInfo webinars: Impact of AlphaFold on teaching and training in life sciences
21 June 2022 | 13:30 - 15:00 BST | Online
ELIXIR Engagement AAI call
22 June 2022 | 10:00-11:00 CEST | Virtual
Research Data Management and Data Management Plan
23-24 June 2022 | Lausanne, Switzerland
Show and Tell - ELIXIR Strategic Implementation Study on Impact
24 June | 11:00-12:00 CEST | Virtual
ELIXIR 3D BioInfo webinars: Impact of AlphaFold on research and development
28 June 2022 | 13:30 - 15:00 BST | Online
Summer school on genetic epidemiology
29 June - 2 July 2022 | Davos, Switzerland
Training course on facilitation and moderation skills
7-8 July 2022 | Hague, Netherlands
ELIXIR Events and Conference
BY-COVID: National-level experiences of pathogen-related data sharing in pandemic times and beyond
23 June 2022 | 13-15:00 CEST | Online
ELIXIR Innovation and SME Forum: Data driven innovation in healthcare diagnostics
22 September 2022 | 10:00 to 19:00 CEST | Barcelona, Spain
ELIXIR Bioinformatics Industry Forum: Enabling Ecosystems for Machine Learning in the Life Sciences
11 October 2022 | 10:00 to 16:00 CEST | London, UK
BioHackathon Europe
7-11 November 2022 | Paris, France
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