Weekly Brief, 22 April 2024

This week's highlights

Three new Focus Groups to advance professional careers and pathogen data sharing

ELIXIR welcomes three new Focus Groups: Learning Paths, Professionalising Careers in Research Infrastructures and Pathogens Data. The addition of three new groups brings the total number of Focus Groups in ELIXIR to 11. The three new groups all support the aims of ELIXIR new Science Programme 2024-28.

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Recommended reads

The PROPHET project paves the way for personalized prevention in the future healthcare

A PROPHET project paper

The advances in omics technology, the reduction of genome sequencing costs, and the integration of digitalization have initiated a revolution in medicine and public health, transforming healthcare delivery towards an increased personalization. These developments arrive at a critical time as European Member States face mounting pressure to provide effective and efficient healthcare from limited budgets, primarily due to the challenges posed by an aging population, the rise in chronic diseases, and the escalating costs of new therapies.

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A study of deep active learning methods to reduce labelling efforts in biomedical relation extraction

An ELIXIR-BE paper

Automatic biomedical relation extraction (bioRE) is an essential task in biomedical research in order to generate high-quality labelled data that can be used for the development of innovative predictive methods. However, building fully labelled, high quality bioRE data sets of adequate size for the training of state-of-the-art relation extraction models is hindered by an annotation bottleneck. In this article, the authors showed how Active Learning plays an important role in improving bioRE tasks, effectively overcoming the labelling limits inherent to a data set.

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Updates from Nodes

EMBL-EBI Highlights Report 2023

EMBL-EBI Highlights Report 2023 outlines the organisation's achievement in 2023 and explores the value of EMBL-EBI for the life sciences with views from funders and collaborators.

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Updates from Communities

Introduction and preparation of the ELIXIR workshop: Empowering toxicology research - leveraging ELIXIR data solutions

2 May 2024 | 15:00 - 16:00 CEST

This webinar will provide insights into how ELIXIR Data and Interoperability Platforms can change toxicological data management, tackling challenges faced by toxicology research consortia.

More information and registration

3D-Bioinfo Community looking for lead of different themes

Deadline: 30 April 2024

The 3D-Bioinfo Community endeavours to integrate protein structure-based data and tools and improve standardisation across Europe. The Community is seeking applications from people wishing to become

• Coordinator for the 3D-BioInfo theme on protein engineering and design
• Deputy Coordinators of five 3D-BioInfo themes: protein annotations, protein complexes, protein ligand interactions, protein nucleic acid interactions and protein engineering and design
• Deputy General Coordinator: take on responsibility for the organisation of the themes and the Community.

In addition, people wishing to be on the Steering Committee for the organisation of the annual general meeting in 2024 are also invited to apply. Anyone interested should send a CV together with a statement (no more than 500 words) to Christine Orengo explaining their relevant experience and why they are interested in the role.

Updates from Focus Groups

ELIXIR EOSC Focus Group meeting

26 April 2024 | 10:00 - 11:00 CEST

At the next ELIXIR EOSC Focus Group meeting, an EGI member of the EOSC Beyond project will present on the project's planned activities relating to EOSC Node pilots, new EOSC Core developments and other key project aspects.

Agenda and Zoom link

SRIA 2.0 - Joint ELIXIR Feedback Document

ELIXIR joint document deadline: 1 May 2024

EOSC draft for SRIA 2.0 is open for community feedback until 5 May 2024. ELIXIR will collect member feedback for a cohesive response. Please add your feedback to the joint document by 1 May 2024.

ELIXIR joint document

Updates from other initiatives

New countries join the European Genomic Data Infrastructure project

The European Genomic Data Infrastructure (GDI) consortium has expanded with organisations from four EU countries joining the project. As of 12 April, organisations from Cyprus, Hungary, Malta and Romania have officially joined the project.

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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

ELIXIR Events and Conferences

ELIXIR IDP Community meeting
13 May 2024 | 10:00 - 18:00 CEST | Thessaloniki, Greece

ELIXIR All Hands 2024
10-12 June 2024 | Uppsala, Sweden

ECCB 2024
16-20 September 2024 | Turku, Finland

BioHackathon Europe 2024
4 - 8 November 2024 | Barcelona, Spain

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
 

Research Software Engineer

RECETOX, Masaryk University

ELIXIR Science Officer

ELIXIR Hub

Bioinformatic technician

Biocomputing group - University of Bologna

PostDoc Cheminformatics

Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry

PostDoc Bioinformatics (metabolomics)

Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry