Weekly Brief, 21 March 2022

This week's highlights

Third Show and Tell - ELIXIR Strategic Implementation Study on Impact

29 April 2022 12:00-13:00 CET

Hear the experiences of two Study co-leads using impact frameworks in the ELIXIR Nodes:

Christine Stansberg, Node coordinator, ELIXIR Norway: First steps towards implementing the impact framework within ELIXIR services
Ana Portugal Melo, Deputy Head of Node, ELIXIR Portugal: The Building BioData.pt project seen through European performance and impact assessment frameworks

All are welcome, no previous attendance at impact events is necessary.

Find out about the ELIXIR Strategic Implementation Study on Impact
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Reminder - this Thursday!

ELIXIR Webinar: Enabling a Data Ecosystem at the National Institutes of Health (NIH)

ELIXIR welcomes two distinguished speakers from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) as part of its webinar series.

Together, they will present: Enabling a Data Ecosystem at the National Institutes of Health.

Find out more and register

Recommended reads

User-friendly, scalable tools and workflows for single-cell RNA-seq analysis

An ELIXIR-GR paper

The comprehensive characterization of probiotic action has flourished during the past few decades with the evolution of high-throughput, multiomics platforms. The meaningful interpretation of generated data remains a challenge, however, the maturation of systems biology and artificial intelligence has supported analysis of results. In this review article, we present current literature on the use of multiomics approaches in probiotic studies, discuss current trends in probiotic research, and examine the possibility of tailor-made probiotic supplementation. Lastly, we delve deeper into newer technologies, such as single-cell multiomics analyses, and provide recommendations for enabling maximization of probiotic efficacy.

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Network analysis of specimen co-collection

BioHackathon Europe 2021

Biodiversity data are collected by people, and those people often work in teams. Those teams may be large, particular when they are part of an expedition, though they may be also be as small as two people. Data on who works together can help refine biodiversity data in many ways. It can help us cross-reference data to ensure it is consistent and valid. It helps us acknowledge the contribution to science of all of the participants. It helps us understand how scientific collection, learning and communication operates and this can give us insights into the biases and effectiveness of the collection process. Also, the relationships between people, and the organisations they are members of, are interesting from a historic and sociological perspective.

Read more

Updates from Nodes

First end-to-end test of the federated EGA

In January, the Finnish ELIXIR Node completed the first end-to-end test of the federated EGA (European Genome-phenome Archive). Federated EGA is a network of repositories enabling sharing and reusing of sensitive biomedical data internationally while complying with GDPR.

Read the blog

Updates from Communities

VIB-VUB/3D BioInfo Webinar Series
Quantitative biology at the molecular & cellular levels: leveraging the power of AI

Fortnightly until June | 17:00 CET

31 March: Assessment of large scale applications of AlphaFold2 in structural bioinformatics - Pedro Beltrao, EMBL-EBI
14 April: The coming of age of in silico PPI screening - Qian Cong, University of Texas Southwestern
28 April: Title TBC - Ellen Zhong, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Emerging Systems Biology Community F2F/hybrid meeting

12-13 April 2022 | Hybrid - Amsterdam, Netherlands | 12:00-14:00 CET

Having completed the emerging Community white paper draft, join us in-person to incorporate final white paper comments and work on the Community Implementation Study.

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2022 Galaxy Community Conference (GCC2022)

July 17-23 | Minnesota, United States

Abstract submission deadline: 12 April
Early registration deadline: 12 May
Join hundreds of researchers, trainers, tool developers, software engineers and computational infrastructure providers to address common challenges in data intensive science using the Galaxy platform.

Find out more and register

Updates from Focus Groups

Call for Chair of new Life Science Data Infrastructures Interest Group

The RDA Activities Focus Group is seeking an ELIXIR member to chair the new RDA Life Science Data Infrastructure IG. The IG will work with global stakeholders (e.g. NIH Office of Data Science, African H3ABio, Australian Biocommons) to bridge international life science data infrastructures and RDA Interest Groups.

To register your interest in this highly visible role, submit an expression of interest, including a paragraph on scientific motivation, to S irarat Sarntivija i by Friday 25 March 10:00 CET (the final decision will be made by the RDA Activities Focus Group Steering Committee).

Benefits include: funded travel to RDA Plenary meetings, ELIXIR-RDA report authorship (in open repositories), collaboration with other ELIXIR stakeholders in setting global data strategy.

Join the lively the RDA Focus Group Slack channel

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 webinar: Data science at the NIH
24 March 2022 |15:00 CET

Training community kick-off: data management and data stewardship
24 March 2022 | 12:00-14:00 CET

Applied statistics: data analysis in practice

5-6 April 2022 | Lausanne, Switzerland

First steps with R
5-7 April 2022 (half days) | Virtual | Limited spaces

Galaxy introduction for life scientists

27 April 2022 | Lausanne, Switzerland

Metabolomics and integrative omics: from data production to analysis
28-29 April 2022 | Bari, Italy

Nordic train-the-trainer course

10-13 May 2022 (half days)| Virtual | Deadline to apply: 3 April

10th RepeatExplorer workshop on the application of NGS to repetitive DNA

24-26 May 2022 | esk Budjovice, Czech Republic

3rd hands-on computational enzyme design workshop

30 May - 1 June 2022 | Virtual

Summer school on genetic epidemiology

29 June - 2 July 2022 | Davos, Switzerland

ELIXIR Events and Conferences

Data access, movement and management workshop

31 March 2022 | Virtual | 09.30 - 12.30 CET

Tools Platform meeting

4-6 April 2022 | Hybrid - Brussels, Belgium

Emerging systems biology Community meeting
12-13 April 2022 | Hybrid - Amsterdam, Netherlands | 12:00-14:00 CET

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 2022 | Paris, France

Job vacancies

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