This week's highlights
ELIXIR are looking for an experienced and people-oriented Senior Administrative Officer: Governance and Events to oversee the effective operations of ELIXIRs governance structures and the delivery of major events.
The role holder will be responsible for ensuring ELIXIRs governance structures, meetings, communications and documentation are delivered with effective scheduling, logistic clarity and operational excellence. Applications close on 15 March.
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Reminder: ELIXIR Head of Operations
Application deadline 3 March 2022
We are looking for a dynamic and accomplished manager to join us as Head of Operations to drive operational efficiency and lead the resourcing and implementation of ELIXIR's programme.
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Reminder: New Platform ExCo opportunities
Application deadline: 28 February 2022
We're seeking two individuals to fill ExCo posts in the Compute and Training Platforms.
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Recommended reads
The European Genome-phenome Archive in 2021
ELIXIR-EXCELERATE | ELIXIR-CONVERGE
The European Genome-phenome Archive (EGA) is a resource for long term secure archiving of all types of potentially identifiable genetic, phenotypic, and clinical data resulting from biomedical research projects. Its mission is to foster hosted data reuse, enable reproducibility, and accelerate biomedical and translational research in line with the FAIR principles. The EGA has become a key GA4GH Driver Project, leading multiple development efforts and implementing new standards and tools, and has been appointed as an ELIXIR Core Data Resource.
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Packaging research artefacts with RO-Crate
EOSC-Life | FAIRplus | BY-COVID
We introduce RO-Crate, an open, community-driven, and lightweight approach to packaging research artefacts along with their metadata in a machine readable manner. RO-Crate is based on Schema.org annotations in JSON-LD, aiming to establish best practices to formally describe metadata in an accessible and practical way for their use in a wide variety of situations. As a general purpose packaging approach for data and their metadata, RO-Crate is used across multiple areas, including bioinformatics, digital humanities and regulatory sciences.
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Updates from Nodes
BIGPICTURE: an infrastructure for processing, storing and sharing very large image files
Starting last year, the six-year BIGPICTURE project will collect three million scanned, digital pathology slides from European hospitals, research organisations and pharmaceutical companies. One applications is bringing together machine learning with pathology to improve cancer outcomes.
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Dutch digital life sciences community review of 2021
Find out more about DTL, ELIXIR-NL and Health-RI in their overview of 2021 and outlook for 2022.
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Updates from Platforms
Join the third ELIXIR AAI engagement call
23 February | 10:00-11:00 CET
The call will cover:
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ELIXIR and EOSC integration, in particular EOSC AAI
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EOSC AAI architecture
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AARC guidelines on AAI
Open to all!
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Updates from Communities
Join the next Mircobial Biotechnology Community call
28 February |10:00 CET
Sign up to the mailing list via the website, Microbial Biotechnology Community, or reach out to Katharina Heil to receive the invitation.
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
Identifying tumour cells at the single cell level through machine learning
3 March | 15.00-16.00 CET
Getting started with impact evaluation
10 March | 09:00-11.30 CET
ELIXIR Events and Conferences
Training platform meeting
16-18 March 2022 | Hybrid - Brussels, Belgium
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 | Paris, France
Job vacancies
All vacancies are also published on the ELIXIR website (also including those from industry). If you need our help communicating your new open positions, you can submit a job advertisement and it will automatically appear on our newsletters. Go to our vacancy page to submit a job
Two positions in image processing for Cryo-Electron Microscopy
National Center of Biotechnology (CNB-CSIC), part of INB/ELIXIR-ES
Head of Operations
ELIXIR Hub
Scientific Coordinator / Knowledge Graph Engineer
SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Scientific/technical position at the DisGeNET platform
Research Programme on Biomedical Informatics (GRIB), part of INB/ELIXIR-ES