Weekly Brief, 20 March 2023

This week's highlights

Highlights of ELIXIR-supported publications in 2022

145 peer-reviewed papers and preprints resulting from activities funded by ELIXIR were published in 2022. As a research infrastructure, the activities that ELIXIR funds yield a diverse range of publications.

Explore the publication highlights of 2022

Recommended reads

Proteomics Standards Initiative at Twenty Years: Current Activities and Future Work

An ELIXIR Implementation Study

The Human Proteome Organization (HUPO) Proteomics Standards Initiative (PSI) has been successfully developing guidelines, data formats, and controlled vocabularies (CVs) for the proteomics community and other fields supported by mass spectrometry since its inception 20 years ago. Here, the authors describe the general operation of the PSI, including its leadership, working groups, yearly workshops, and the document process by which proposals are thoroughly and publicly reviewed in order to be ratified as PSI standards.

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Systems Biology in ELIXIR: modelling in the spotlight

An ELIXIR white paper

In this white paper, the authors describe the founding of a new ELIXIR Community - the Systems Biology Community - and its proposed future contributions to both ELIXIR and the broader community of systems biologists in Europe and worldwide. A set of objectives for the Community has been identified under four main headline areas: Standardisation and Interoperability, Technology, Capacity Building and Training, and Industrial Embedding. These are grouped into short-term, mid-term and long-term objectives.


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Updates from Nodes

Bioinformatics Education Summit

1517 May 2023 | Hybrid - Wellcome Genome Campus, UK

The Bioinformatics Education Summit provides a platform for discussion of advances, guidance and best practices for training and education in bioinformatics as part of a global network.

This years meeting will focus on three main themes:

• Furthering the use and adoption of the ISCB competency framework
• Exploring how to make training and teaching greener
• Developing and sharing best practices for building and supporting communities in training.

Apply to join

The Dutch Research Software Directory

The Dutch Research Software Directory is a registry for research software and is designed to show the impact research software has on research and society. Sets of software are associated with organisations.

ELIXIR software packages in the registry

Registration for the [BC]2 conference is now open!

11-13 September 2023 | Basel, Switzerland

[BC]2 Basel Computational Biology Conference, Switzerland's main event in Computational Biology, brings together around 500 participants from pharma/biotech companies and academia. This year, the conference will focus on Big data in biology promises and challenges.

Register by 4 September | Early bird fee is available until 30 June

Towards a national curriculum for life science Data Stewards

SIB has joined forces with the University of Lausanne and several Swiss institutions to launch a new project to foster training and a national curriculum for Data Stewards, and is in charge of the life science part.

Find out more

Updates from Platforms

ELIXIR Tools Platform F2F meeting registration now open

27-29 March 2023 | Leiden, Netherlands

The ELIXIR Tools Platform F2F meeting will include presentations and discussions in particular focusing on planning for the new ELIXIR Programme for 2024-28. This will be a hybrid meeting but F2F participation is encouraged.

Register now

ELIXIR-GOBLET Train-the-Trainer course

3-5 May 2023 | Basel, Switzerland (in person only)

ELIXIR-GOBLET Train-the-Trainer course is co-organised by ELIXIR Switzerland and ELIXIR Luxembourg. This course will introduce trainers in the life sciences to learning principles, training techniques, lesson, session, course, and material design as well as assessment and feedback.

Register now

Updates from Communities

Provide your feedback on the emerging Data Management Community White Paper

Deadline: 30 March 2023

The emerging ELIXIR Data Management Community are presenting their white paper draft for consultation and feedback.
Please add your comments directly to the PDF document or send to clare.garrard [at] elixir-europe.org (ELIXIR's Scientific Officer - Life Science Communities, Clare Garrard)

Read the white paper draft

Invitation to join the ELIXIR Plant Sciences Community F2F/hybrid Meeting

20 & 21 April 2023 | Hybrid - Paris, France
Registration deadline: 23 March (F2F) | 20 April (virtual)

This hybrid meeting is for members of the ELIXIR Plant Sciences Community. It will address general Community updates, short presentations, updates about the ongoing Implementation Study and an outlook on activities and actions for the coming months, as well as the 2024-2028 ELIXIR Programme.

Find out more and register now

Updates from Other Initiatives

RItrainPlus Management training for scientific excellence

RItrainPlus is preparing to open applications for its first training programme aimed at managers and operators of Research Infrastructures and Core Facilities. The pilot courses are offered free of charge and mostly as online intensive courses.

Read the brochure

Building blocks of Global Research Commons Europe and beyond

20 March 2023 | Gothenburg, Sweden

The half-day event will take place in conjunction with the RDA 20th Plenary Meeting in Gothenburg, Sweden. The event will touch on the main issues related to practical implementation of research commons, with a focus on assembling the main features of a research commons and overcoming associated challenges.

Further information and registration

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

Tools Platform 2023 F2F meeting

27-29 March 2023 | Leiden, Netherlands

ELIXIR Systems Biology Community F2F/hybrid & Implementation Study kick-off Meeting
12 - 14 April 2023 | Hybrid - Braga, Portugal

ELIXIR Innovation and SME Forum: AI in Health Research
13 April 2023 | Utrecht, the Netherlands

ELIXIR All Hands 2023
5-8 June 2023 | Dublin, Ireland

BioHackathon Europe 2023
30 October - 3 November 2023 | Barcelona, Spain

Job vacancies

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