Weekly Brief, 21 September 2020

ELIXIR Handbook of Operations

A revised Handbook of Operations is now available online, providing a comprehensive overview and directory of ELIXIR policies, guidelines, recommendations and related procedures.

ELIXIR-related papers published in July and August!

ELIXIR colleagues involved in the "EU-STANDS4PM consortium contributed to the article "Towards standardization guidelines for in silico approaches in personalized medicine".

ELIXIR Luxembourg published "COVID-19 Research: Navigating the European General Data Protection Regulation.

Two ELIXIR-related grants (ELIXIR-EXCELERATE and EOSC-Life) were acknowledged in this article led by ELIXIR Italy and entitled ELIXIR-IT HPC@CINECA: high performance computing resources for the bioinformatics community.

There's more to come - we will send additional publications next week!

Tip of the week

Did you know that the Hub is tracking ELIXIR-related publications each month via text mining?

Updates from Nodes

COVID-19 data portal UX chat

Are you a researcher working with COVID-19 data? Share your experience & help us improve the COVID-19 data portal. Sign up for a UX chat!

Online course on Deep Learning

13 October 2020

The online program of the course from the Helis Academy and TU/e provides the opportunity to get insights on theory, current practice in industry and expected possible future practice in industry within just one day. Find registration and more details on the Academy's website.

Updates from Platforms

ELIXIR-LU and ELIXIR-FI run online course

27/28 October 2020

ELIXIR-LU will host ELIXIR-FI to run its Single cell RNA-seq data analysis with Chipster course. The course will held online on 27-28 October. Registration is free but compulsory.

Updates from Communities

New tool from ELIXIR AAI

ELIXIR AAI task has deployed as simple tool that any ELIXIR ID holder, including relying service developers, can use to view their GA4GH Passport. The tool can be used via the AAI website.

Roadmap for Plant Sciences

The ELIXIR Plant Sciences Community has made their 2019-23 Roadmap available for comments. Please provide feedback by Friday, 13 November.

Updates from other initiatives

EOSC-Life launches 1st Digital Life Sciences Open Call

EOSC-Life has launched its first Digital Life Sciences Open Call for projects that enable researchers to connect their data, tools and workflows to the cloud. Find out more about eligibility, application and review processes on the EOSC-Life website.

Upcoming ELIXIR events & webinars

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ELIXIR Training Courses & Webinars

The ELIXIR TeSS portal has a variety of interesting events and courses organised by the ELIXIR Nodes. A link off to the TeSS portal

First steps with R in Life Sciences

[27-28 October | Zurich]

NGS - Quality control, Alignment, Visualisation

[4-6 November | Bern]

ELIXIR Events and Conferences

European Research and Innovation Days

2224 September 2020 | Online

Niklas Blomberg will introduce ELIXIR's work with a specific emphasis on health data and COVID-19. Join the panel discussion on 23 September, Hub 3 Digitalisation at 10.30 am CEST.

EBIF 2020 Series | Commercialisation of Research in Bioinformatics

29 October 2020 | Online

ELIXIR's Virtual BioHackathon-Europe

913 November 2020 | Now Online

Registration deadline: 18 September 2020

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

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