Weekly Brief, 23 August 2021

This week's highlights

New report shows open data is at the heart of innovation

We have released our latest report investigating the crucial role that open data has in driving innovation in the life sciences. Seventy-six percent of companies surveyed state that their product or service would not exist without data on open repositories.

This report, authored by ELIXIR Industry Officer Dr Katharina Lauer and Professor Hannes Rothe at the Freie Universitt Berlin, is an up-to-date quantification on the benefit of open data to industry and innovation.

Read the report

Hub jobs closing this week!

Legal Officer

Deadline this Wednesday, 25 August

Scientific Officer: Human Genomics and Translational Data

Deadline this Wednesday, 25 August

Programme Manager: Human Genomics and Translational Data

Deadline this Sunday, 29 August

Recommended reads of the week

In silico saturation mutagenesis of cancer genes

An ELIXIR Spain Nature paper
Despite the existence of good catalogues of cancer genes, identifying the specific mutations of those genes that drive tumorigenesis across tumour types is still a largely unsolved problem. [...] Using these models, we outline the blueprints of potential driver mutations in cancer genes, and demonstrate the role of mutation probability in shaping the landscape of observed driver mutations.

Read more...

A SARS-CoV-2 sequence submission tool for the European Nucleotide Archive

Correction! This paper was wrongly attributed to ELIXIR Hungary, rather than ELIXIR Belgium in last week's weekly brief.

An ELIXIR Germany and ELIXIR Belgium paper
The European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) is the European recommended open repository for genetic sequences. In this work, we present a tool for submitting raw sequencing reads of SARS-CoV-2 to ENA.

Read more...

Updates from Communities

Register now for the BrAPI virtual Hackathon

4-8 October 2021 | Virtual

Open for registration and project proposals - your project can be anything related to BrAPI. For example: add BrAPI to an existing tool or server, develop a new BrAPP idea, create an automated connection with another tool/group, work on a BrAPI development assistance tool/library, or design a new BrAPI concept/interface.

There will be a list of general community projects available for anyone to work on. There are many different ways to contribute!

Register here

Updates from Nodes

6th Annual Danish Bioinformatics Conference 2021

18 - 19 November 2021 | Aalborg, Denmark
Registration is now open for this year's Danish Bioinformatics Conference. Sessions include those on machine learning, personalised medicine and the Danish life science supercomputer and more. There will also be a variety of workshops, including one on ELIXIR's bio.tools.

Register now

BioData.pt talks are back!

RDMkit with Daniel Faria | 2 November, 17:00 WEST, Online BioData.pt Talks are back! BioData.pt talks comprise a series of monthly webinars given by BioData.pt collaborators and guest experts.

Join us this November to learn about the uses and features of RDMkit - an online guide containing good data management practices.

Register now

Updates from other initiatives

Read the new European Research Council's Open Data research and data management guidelines


These new guidelines are a must read for any ERC grantees, and includes mentions of ELIXIR resources.
Read the report

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

de.NBI training: Software Carpentry workshop
6-7 September 2021

SIB training course: Advanced Technical Presentation 1: Core Techniques
4 October 2021 | Online

BioData.pt talk: RDMkit with Daniel Faria
2 November 2021 | 17:00 WEST

ELIXIR Events and Conferences

Innovation and SME Forum | Building the learning ecosystem of health: from data tracking to preventive medicine

13 September 2021 | At the [BC]2 Conference, Basel, Switzerland
(virtual participation also available)

UK Conference of bioinformatics and computational biology 2021

28-30 September 2021 | Virtual

3D-Bioinfo 2021 Annual Meeting

2-4 November 2021 | Virtual

BioHackathon Europe 2021

8-12 November 2021 | Hybrid Barcelona, Spain

6th Annual Danish Bioinformatics Conference

18 - 19 November 2021 | Aalborg, Denmark

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 Fellow: ProID Project

EMBL-EBI

Scientific Officer: ELIXIR Human Genomics and Translational Data

ELIXIR Hub

Data Stewardship Community Manager

University of Bradford

(Senior) Data Steward / Research and Development specialist

ELIXIR-Luxembourg / Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine

Data Steward / Research and Development specialist

ELIXIR-Luxembourg / Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine