Weekly Brief, 26 July 2021

This week's highlights

BY-COVID enters grant agreement preparation phase

The European Commission has shortlisted the BY-COVID project for funding.

Beyond COVID is part of the EC"s Health Emergency preparedness and Response Authority (HERA) plan, a European bio-defence preparedness plan with the aim to increase the EU's responsiveness and preparedness to any epidemic threats.

The project is expected to start in October and we will issue a full news release closer to the start date. Until then, please don't disseminate this news outside ELIXIR.

For questions, please contact Katharina Lauer

 

Are you looking for an expert?

Finding an expert in any ELIXIR-related topic is a recurring problem that is identified in many meetings. To solve this issue, we have created a new channel in our shared Slack Workspace, #find_an_expert.

We invite any expert in ELIXIR (and who's not?) to join the channel. Are you looking for an expert in annotating plant genomes? You might find your match here. And you might be the expert that has contacts with the Health Ministry of Belgium.
Join the channel and help your fellow ELIXIRians

Haven't you joined the Slack Workspace yet? Create your profile and start connecting with more than 600 members!

ELIXIR Hub job opportunity

Programme Manager: Human Genomics & Translational Data

Deadline: 29 August

This position is an exciting opportunity to become involved in many large research projects, such as B1MG and EJP-RD.

We are looking for an expert that can coordinate the needed technical activities and projects to deliver an ELIXIR-wide approach to manage, archive, access and analyse sensitive human data.

Does this sound like you?
Apply today

Recommended read of the week

Solving patients with rare diseases through programmatic reanalysis of genome-phenome data

Funded by ELIXIR and EJP RD

'Reanalysis of inconclusive exome/genome sequencing data increases the diagnosis yield of patients with rare diseases. However, the cost and efforts required for reanalysis prevent its routine implementation in research and clinical environments. The Solve-RD project aims to reveal the molecular causes underlying undiagnosed rare diseases. One of the goals is to implement innovative approaches to reanalyse the exomes and genomes from thousands of well-studied undiagnosed cases.'
Continue reading..

Updates from Communities

Workshop | SARS-CoV-2 Data Analysis and Monitoring with Galaxy

9-12 August 2021 | Online

This 4-day workshop aims to build capacity in SARS-CoV-2 data analysis and data management, including data submission to ENA. After the workshop, you'll be able to upload viral sequencing data, call all variants, create a variety of reports and create consensus alignments.

The sessions will be pre-recorded and provided in advance with live chat support and live Q&A sessions with experts.
Register for the workshop

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. For more, visit TeSS portal

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
You can also submit an abstract for a poster or short talk until 8 August

BioHackathon Europe 2021

8-12 November 2021 | Hybrid Barcelona, Spain
Registration is now open!

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

(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

Data Steward - Senior

ELIXIR Luxembourg

Data Steward

ELIXIR Luxembourg

Legal Officer

ELIXIR Hub