Weekly Brief, 23 May 2022

This week's highlights

ECCB Call for abstracts - ELIXIR Communities track

Deadline: 29 May 2022

ELIXIR Community Members are invited to submit an abstract - and contribute to one of the four track sessions. More information can be found on the ELIXIR at the ECCB 2022 page and dont hesitate to get in touch with Katharina Heil with any questions you might have.

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Save the date: Fourth Show and Tell - ELIXIR Strategic Implementation Study on Impact

24 June | 11:00-12:00 CEST | Virtual

Save the date for "ELIXIR Greece - Show and Tell on scientific impact. All are welcome, no previous attendance at impact events is necessary. Find out about the ELIXIR Strategic Implementation Study on Impact

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Recommended reads

Spliceator: multi-species splice site prediction using convolutional neural networks

An ELIXIR-EXCELERATE paper

Ab initio prediction of splice sites is an essential step in eukaryotic genome annotation. Recent predictors have exploited Deep Learning algorithms and reliable gene structures from model organisms. However, Deep Learning methods for non-model organisms are lacking. The authors developed Spliceator to predict splice sites in a wide range of species, including model and non-model organisms. Spliceator uses a convolutional neural network and is trained on carefully validated data from over 100 organisms. It is a new Deep Learning method trained on high-quality data, which can be used to predict splice sites in diverse organisms, ranging from human to protists, with consistently high accuracy.

An ELIXIR-CZ paper

PDBe-KB is an open collaboration between world-leading specialist data resources contributing functional and biophysical annotations derived from or relevant to the Protein Data Bank. The goal of PDBe-KB is to place macromolecular structure data in their biological context by developing standardised data exchange formats and integrating functional annotations from the contributing partner resources into a knowledge graph that can provide valuable biological insights. This paper provides an overview of the consortium, highlighting the addition of annotations such as predicted covalent binders, phosphorylation sites, effects of mutations on the protein structure and energetic local frustration.

Webinar: Landscape of human genomics data sharing in Australia

1 June | 14:00 BST | Hybrid - EMBL-EBI, UK

Join the EMBL-EBI webinar about the Landscape of human genomics data sharing in Australia"

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Updates from Other Initiatives

Webinar: European Research Data Landscape study findings

9 June | 13:30-16:30 CET | Virtual

A study on the European research data landscape is underway. The study aims to provide a characterisation of the research data ecosystem in the European context, covering the EU Member States, Horizon 2020 Associated Countries and the UK. Join the webinar to find out about the preliminary findings and provide feedback.

Register by 7 June

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

10th RepeatExplorer workshop on the application of NGS to repetitive DNA

24-26 May 2022 | esk Budjovice, Czech Republic

3rd hands-on computational enzyme design workshop

30 May - 1 June 2022 | Virtual

Intermediate Python

3 June 2022 | Bern, Switzerland

First Step with R in Life Sciences

8-9 June | Lausanne, Switzerland

Functional exploration of genetic variants in cardiac diseases

14-15 June 2022 | Lyon, France | Apply by 1 May

Research Data Management and Data Management Plan

23-24 June 2022 | Lausanne, Switzerland

Summer school on genetic epidemiology

29 June - 2 July 2022 | Davos, Switzerland

Training course on facilitation and moderation skills

7-8 July 2022 | Hague, Netherlands

ELIXIR Events and Conference

ELIXIR All Hands meeting 2022

7-10 June 2022 | Amsterdam, Netherlands

BioHackathon Europe

7-11 November 2022 | Paris, France

Job vacancies

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