This week's highlights
The first hybrid BioHackathon Europe
The first ever hybrid BioHackathon Europe was held 8 - 12 November in Barcelona, Spain and welcomed 138 face-to-face and 172 virtual participants. Working collaboratively over tables, screens and time zones on 37 projects, new data, features and friendships were moulded over the course of an intensive week of hacking.
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Join the 2nd Show & Tell as part of the ELIXIR-funded Strategic Implementation Study on Impact
6 December 2021 | 10:00 CET | Virtual
Join Prof. Hannes Rothe (ICN Business School & Digital Entrepreneurship Hub) and Kathi Lauer (ELIXIR Senior Industry Officer) as they present their methods for their latest report Open data: A driving force for innovation in the life sciences for which they used survey methods and interviews to quantify the benefit of open data to industry and innovation.
Zoom link (please do not share the link via external newsletters or on public websites)
Meeting ID: 890 8911 5051
Passcode: impact
Recommended reads
ProteoSign v2: a faster and evolved user-friendly online tool for statistical analyses of differential proteomics
An ELIXIR Greece paper
Bottom-up proteomics analyses have been proved over the last years to be a powerful tool in the characterization of the proteome and are crucial for understanding cellular and organism behaviour. However, several tools for the analysis of such complex datasets are powerful, but hard-to-use with steep learning curves. Here, we present a substantial upgrade of this computational resource, called ProteoSign v2, where we introduce major improvements.
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PhylomeDB V5: an expanding repository for genome-wide catalogues of annotated gene phylogenies
An ELIXIR Spain paper
PhylomeDB is a unique knowledge base providing public access to mineable and browsable catalogues of pre-computed genome-wide collections of annotated sequences, alignments and phylogenies (i.e. phylomes) of homologous genes, as well as to their corresponding phylogeny-based orthology and paralogy relationships. Here, we describe the latest evolution of PhylomeDB (version 5).
Last week's link to this paper was incorrect, here is the correct link: Read more...
Updates from Communities
Join the 4th 3D-Bioinfo Community webinar!
Nucleic Acid Tools: Progress and further plans
14 December 2021 | 15:00-16:00 CET
Join the 3D-Bioinfo Community at their 4th webinar in their 10-part webinar series. This webinar features: Marta Szachniuk Poznan University of Technology): Interlaces and lassos in 3D RNA models. Chichau Miao (EMBL-EBI): RNA Puzzles on the path to improve reliability of RNA structure predictions Ji ern (University of Basel): New tools available to annotate and validate nucleic acids at DNATCO. Find out more and register
Updates from Nodes
Read the latest IFB newsletter
The latest edition of the IFB newsletter contains a lot of opportunities and insights into Open Science, national and international projects, events and many job offers.
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ELIXIR-NL at the SciLifeLab 'FAIR principles in life science research practice'
9 December 2021 | Virtual
SciLifeLab, host of ELIXIR-SE, is organising an online symposium on FAIR principles in life science research practice. Two ELIXIR-NL speakers have been invited to speak in the morning session: Erik Schultes (GO-FAIR) and Rob Hooft (DTL).
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ELIXIR-NL presented at European Commission workshop on FAIR data & COVID-19
On November 8, Rob Hooft gave a brief presentation at the European Commission workshop Maximising investments in health research: FAIR data for a coordinated COVID-19 response.
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A Masters fellowship opportunity working on 'Increasing plant data findability and reuse beyond ELIXIR'
Deadline 2 December 2022
A Masters fellowship opportunity, funded by ELIXIR, at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa is now open for applications. Work will include: Add the cork oak (Quercus suber) genome on ENA and Ensembl plants. The preparation of training materials to improve the accessibility to the developed services. Data annotation using controlled vocabularies and ontologies, as well as the curation and submission of datasets to predefined databases. Work will follow standards such as MIAPPE. Opportunity to contribute to the development of new visual analytics for plant omics and gene network data based on already available tools such as KnetMiner, DiNAR and using cork oak datasets.
Updates from Other Initiatives
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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-DE: 2nd Women in Data Science - Perspectives in industry and academia
2 December 2021 | 15:00 CET
ELIXIR-CH/SIB: Ligand-protein docking, and computer-aided drug design
Registration deadline 28 November
13 - 15 December 2021 | Lausanne, Switzerland
Train the Trainer course (jointly organised by ELIXIR-FI, ELIXIR-CH, ELIXIR-IT & ELIXIR-SE)
14 - 17 December 2021 | 08:00-11:30 CET | Virtual
ELIXIR Events and Conferences
ELIXIR's Consultation event on international engagement
30 November 2021 | 14:00-16:00 CET | Virtual
ELIXIR-CONVERGE workshop series: Lessons learned from organising and hosting a hybrid conference
8 December 2021 | 14:00 CET | Virtual
ELIXIR All Hands meeting 2022
7 - 10 June 2022 | Amsterdam, Netherlands
Job vacancies
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Postdoc multidimensional integration of high throughput sequencing data
Albert-Ludwigs-Universitt Freiburg
Postdoctoral Researcher in Computational Biology
Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona)
Postdoctoral Researcher in Cancer Genomics
Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona)
Senior expert at data science excellence center in medical imaging
CMIV/AIDA/NBIS/BIGPICTURE
Postdoctoral position in bioinformatics/data science
University of Copenhagen (UCPH)