Weekly Brief, 24 May 2021

FAIRplus Webinar | Discovering the FAIR Cookbook

26 May 2021 | 14:00 CEST

Whether you are looking for a resource to start your FAIRification journey or want to contribute to this community-driven effort, we invite you to join this short webinar to discover the potential of a new open resource the FAIR Cookbook.

Join more than 200 experts from academia and industry that have already registered.
Register here

Did you miss our events last week?

You can find the recordings online from our events last week on the event webpages:

Hiring at the Hub
Deadline 18 June

We're looking for an experienced Project Manager/Senior Project Coordinator to join us at the ELIXIR Hub to support our internal and externally funded COVID-19 activities.

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Recommended reads of the week

The Atlas of Inflammation Resolution (AIR)

An service hosted at ELIXIR-Luxembourg

The Atlas of Inflammation Resolution (AIR) is a web-based resource capturing an essential part of the state-of-the-art in acute inflammation and inflammation resolution research. The AIR provides an interface for users to search thousands of interactions, arranged in inter-connected multi-layers of process diagrams, covering a wide range of clinically relevant phenotypes.

Continue reading...

Identifiers.org: Compact Identifier services in the cloud

An EMBL-EBI/CORBEL/EOSC-Life/ELIXIR-EXCELERATE paper!

[...] We describe a set of services that can be used to construct and resolve Compact Identifiers (CIDs) in Life Sciences and beyond. We have developed a new front end for accessing the Identifiers.org registry data and APIs to simplify integration of Identifiers.org CID services with third-party applications. We have also deployed the new Identifiers.org infrastructure in a commercial cloud environment, bringing our services closer to the data.
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Updates from Platforms

Workshop on Education in Bioinformatics

25 July 2021 | Virtually at ISMB/ECCB 2021
The ELIXIR FAIR Training Focus Group is organising the annual Workshop on Education in Bioinformatics "Making training materials FAIR - experiences, challenges, solutions". The WEB will be part of the Education COSI track on 26 and 27 July, both part of the ISMB/ECCB 2021 conference.
Register here

Please fill in the BioExcel CoE User Needs survey

BioExcel CoE has launched a survey to improve our support and training activities with research groups in EU13 countries - Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia. The survey takes ~5 minutes.
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Updates from Communities

Paving the way for FAIR data in Plant Phenotyping

16 June 2021 | 11:00 - 12: 30 CEST | Virtual

The PhD Defense of Evangelia Papoutsoglou from ELIXIR Netherlands, who has been an active member of the Plant Community, will take place on June 16th. If you have any questions, or would like to obtain a PDF copy of her thesis (once available), feel free to contact Richard.finkers@wur.nl.
View the live broadcast Updates from Nodes

Read the latest newsletter from the IFB

The latest edition of the IFB newsletter includes a focus on the IFBs relations with industry, COVID-19 project news, events and job opportunities.
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Upcoming ELIXIR events and webinars

ELIXIR training courses and 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

ELIXIR-CZ Friday Coffee | cpPredictor: template based prediction of RNA

21 May 2021 | 9:30 CEST

ELIXIR Events and Conferences

ELIXIR Webinar: BRENDA: the comprehensive enzyme information system

1 July 2021 | 16:00 CEST

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)

Job vacancies

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Senior Bioinformatician in Molecular Screening and Omics Research

AstraZeneca

Postdoc Position in Computational Immunology

Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)

ELIXIR Project Manager/ Senior Project Coordinator

ELIXIR

Data engineer

Sciensano

Data Engineer

Centre for Genomic Regulation