ELIXIR Innovation and SME Forum: Data-Driven Innovation in the Agritech Sector
10-12 March 2021 | Online
You will discover the world of data-driven innovation with a mix of high-level keynotes and hands-on sessions to discuss and interact with other companies, SMEs, academics and ELIXIR partners.
Discover the programme and register today
Get involved in the BioHackathon Europe 2021
Become part of the Programme Committee
We are already warming up the engine for the upcoming BioHackathon Europe 2021. You can now get involved as part of the Programme Committee.
The monthly teleconferences will begin on 5 March at 2 pm CET
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Implementing FAIR data management within the German Network for Bioinformatics Infrastructure (de.NBI) exemplified by selected use cases
in Briefings in Bioinformatics
The article addresses the challenge of heterogeneity of wet lab technologies, data, metadata, software, computational workflows and the levels of implementation and monitoring of FAIR principles within de.NBI.
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biotoolsSchema: a formalized schema for bioinformatics software description
in Gigascience
Life scientists routinely face massive and heterogeneous data analysis tasks and must find and access the most suitable databases or software in a jungle of web-accessible resources. The diversity of information used to describe life-scientific digital resources presents an obstacle to their utilization.
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Updates from Nodes
ELIXIR-NL | DK and NL featured in Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) as use cases for data stewardship
How do Denmark and the Netherlands look at the roles of stakeholders for FAIR d data stewards? Both countries carried out extensive work to professionalise data stewardship, highlighted in the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda of the EOSC (p 128).
Read the news story
ELIXIR-UK | ViralLink: New integrated workflow to identify key pathways in SARS-CoV-2 infected cells
ELIXIR-UK members from the Earlham Institute, alongside colleagues from the Quadram Institute, have published a new workflow that enables the identification of key proteins and interactions in SARS-CoV-2 infected cells. This new tool is easily scalable, open to all and suitable for research into any viral infection.
Read more in the Earlham Institute news story
Read the paper here
Updates from Communities
Meet the Galaxy Community members
The Galaxy Community has created a fun video featuring many of its fantastic members.
Check it out
Updates from other initiatives
EU to invest 150 million for research to counter coronavirus variants
EU has just launched a new effort, the HERA Incubator. 150 million will be invested in research to counter coronavirus variants. It will support a long-term plan for Health Emergency Preparedness Research Authority (HERA).
Amongst other aims, it will reinforce the ELIXIR CONVERGE project and the European COVID-19 Data Platform.
Read more about it
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. A link off to the TeSS portal
Galaxy-ELIXIR webinars series: Advanced Features
3-24 March 2021 | Online, 5 pm every Wednesday
Software Carpentry workshop
8-9 March 2021 | Online
Introduction to Data Management practices
13-15 April 2021 | Online
ELIXIR Events and Conferences
Galaxy Papercuts CoFest
25 February 2021 | Online
Galaxy Training Network CoFest
25 February 2021 | Online
Innovation and SME Forum: Data-Driven Innovation in the Agritech Sector
1012 March 2021 | Online
Train the Trainer (TtT)
29 March 2021 | Online
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
Postdoctoral Position: Bioinformatician for NGS data analysis
RECETOX, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University
Bioinformatician in genomics
NBIS/SciLifeLab/ELIXIR-SE
Senior Full Stack Developer
German Cancer Research Institute (DKFZ)
System Admin / Cloud Specialist
German Cancer Research Institute (DKFZ)
Software Developer
German Cancer Research Institute (DKFZ)