Weekly Brief, 21 November 2022

This week's highlights

The Genomic Data Infrastructure project launched

The European Genomic Data Infrastructure (GDI) project launched in Brussels on Thursday 17 November 2022. The new 40 million project, coordinated by ELIXIR, is jointly funded by the European Commission under the Digital Europe Programme, and through co-funding from participating Member States.

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New job vacancy at the Hub: ELSI Officer

ELIXIR Hub is looking for a dynamic and accomplished Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) Services Officer to join our Legal Services team. This role will be responsible for operationalising good ELSI practice within a distributed international organisation.

Apply by 9 December 2022

ELIXIR AAI engagement call

7 December 2022 | 10:00-11:00 CET | Online

The topic of this call is GA4GH in Life Science AAI and new specification of GA4GH v1.2 presented by Martin Kuba and Dominik F. Bucik. The call is open to anybody from the community who is interested in GA4GH standards and LS AAI/ELIXIR services that rely/want to rely on GA4GH Passports.

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Recommended reads

Introducing the FAIR Principles for research software

An ELIXIR-BE paper

Research software is a fundamental and vital part of research, yet significant challenges to discoverability, productivity, quality, reproducibility, and sustainability exist. Improving the practice of scholarship is a common goal of the open science, open source, and FAIR communities and research software is now being understood as a type of digital object to which FAIR should be applied. The FAIR for Research Software (FAIR4RS) Working Group has adapted the FAIR Guiding Principles to create the FAIR Principles for Research Software (FAIR4RS Principles). The contents and context of the FAIR4RS Principles are summarised in the article to provide the basis for discussion of their adoption.

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DCSO: towards an ontology for machine-actionable data management plans

An ELIXIR-CZ paper

The concept of Data Management Plan (DMP) has emerged as a fundamental tool to help researchers through the systematical management of data. The Research Data Alliance DMP Common Standard (DCS) working group developed a set of universal concepts characterising a DMP so it can be represented as a machine-actionable artefact. This paper reports on a community effort to create the DMP Common Standard Ontology (DCSO) as a serialisation of the DCS core concepts, with a particular focus on a detailed description of the components of the ontology. The initial result shows that the proposed DCSO can become a suitable candidate for a reference serialisation of the DMP Common Standard.

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Updates from Nodes

Interviews with Female Data Champions from Industry and Academia

de.NBI/ELIXIR launch a new interview collection, Women in Data Science, to celebrate women's achievements in data science for life sciences and bioinformatics. This week, de.NBI interviewed Brnice Batut. Bioinformatics Scientist and the co-lead of the ELIXIR Marine Metagenomics Community.

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7th NuGO webinar - What does FAIR mean to you?

Rob Hooft from ELIXIR-NL presented at the NuGO webinar on 15 November 2022 with the title What does FAIR mean to you?. In the presentation, Rob introduced tools including DS Wizard, RDMkit and the FAIR cookbook.

See the slides

Updates from Platforms

BioHackathon Europe 2022 Project 32: Training booster: developing FAIR training materials and Learning Paths

At the BiohHackathon Europe 2022, the Netherlands, Sweden, UK, Italy & Australia co-led the Training Booster project focusing on creating FAIR training materials and Learning Paths. Future plans for the project include meetings on publishing the results and the Learning Path protocol.

If interested in engaging, please contact patricia.palagi [at] sib.swiss (Patricia Palagi (FAIR)) or mijke.jetten [at] dtls.nl (Mijke Jetten (Learning Paths))

Highlights of the first COBLET

The first Colloquium on Bioinformatics Learning, Education and Training (COBLET) took place on 11-14 October 11-14. Highlights of the meeting can be watched on Youtube and slides for all presentations are also available on the website.

Watch the highlight video

Updates from Other Initiatives

Virtual event: National-level experiences of pathogen-related data sharing in pandemic times and beyond

25 November 2022 | 13:00-15:00 CET

The event aims to exchange national experiences on data sharing during the COVID-19 pandemic, learn about ongoing projects in relation to COVID-19 and other pathogen data sharing/genomic surveillance and create a community for knowledge exchange.

Register now

Conference on Data Visualisation for Society

2 & 3 December 2022 | Barcelona, Spain

Digital Future Society is organising an in-person conference on Data Visualisation for Society. The conference will bring experts in the data and information visualisation field to discuss how we should design and disseminate data visualisations that are understandable for society.

More information and registration

FAIR Assessment Survey

The members of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Task Force on FAIR Metrics and Data Quality are exploring the degree to which the research community is aware of, and utilising metrics and evaluation tools for FAIRness.

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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

EMBL-EBI webinar: The environmental impact of computational biology
23 November 2022 | 16:30 - 17:30 CET

SIB course: Enrichment Analysis
2 December 2022 | Virtual

ELIXIR Events and Conferences

Data-Interoperability Platforms Hybrid F2F 2022
28-30 November 2022 | Geneva, Switzerland

ELIXIR Single Cell Omics Community F2F/hybrid Meeting
5&6 December 2022 | Hybrid - Stockholm, Sweden

Job vacancies

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