Weekly Brief, 26 June 2023

This week's highlights

ELIXIR 2022 Annual Report

ELIXIR has published its Annual Report for 2022, showcasing the major achievements of over 800 experts from 22 ELIXIR Nodes last year. The report presents the progress towards the strategic objectives of the Scientific Programme for 2019-2023 and highlights ELIXIRs focus on connecting people, data and resources across and beyond Europe.

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ELIXIR and the Australian BioCommons extend collaboration strategy to 2028

ELIXIR has renewed its collaboration strategy with Australian BioCommons. Both organisations work to further open access to resources to understand the molecular basis of life and have been collaborating for many years.

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Reflections on the 2019-2023 Programme!

Thank you to everyone who shared their thoughts on the 2019-2023 Programme via Menti. It has been a great Programme so far and many nice memories to remember!

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Recommended reads

SpatialData: an open and universal data framework for spatial omics

A BioHackathon paper

Handling uni- and multi-modal spatial omics datasets remains a challenge owing to large volumes of data, heterogeneous data types and the lack of unified spatially-aware data structures. Here, the authors introduce SpatialData, a framework that establishes a unified and extensible multi-platform file format, lazy representation of larger-than-memory data, transformations, and alignment to common coordinate systems. SpatialData facilitates spatial annotations and cross-modal aggregation and analysis, the utility of which is illustrated via multiple vignettes, including integrative analysis on a multi-modal Xenium and Visium breast cancer study.

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Mobilisation and analyses of publicly available SARS-CoV-2 data for pandemic responses

An ELIXIR-CONVERGE paper

The COVID-19 pandemic has seen large-scale pathogen genomic sequencing efforts, becoming part of the toolbox for surveillance and epidemic research. This resulted in an unprecedented level of data sharing to open repositories, which has actively supported the identification of SARS-CoV-2 structure, molecular interactions, mutations and variants, and facilitated vaccine development and drug reuse studies and design. The European COVID-19 Data Platform was launched to support this data sharing and has resulted in the deposition of several million SARS-CoV-2 raw reads.


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Updates from Nodes

EMBL-EBI Highlights 2022

EMBL-EBI released its 2022 Highlights report last week. Find out how EMBL-EBI support the development of AI for the life sciences, enable genomic medicine, use big data to protect biodiversity, and much more.

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UK Research and Innovation have awarded 34 million in funding for BioFAIR

ELIXIR-UK has conceived BioFAIR, a new digital research infrastructure that enables the data and processing resources of ELIXIR and other partners to be delivered to researchers across the UK.

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Updates from Communities

Single-Cell Omics (SCO) Training Survey

Deadline: 31 July 2023

This is a survey organised by the ELIXIR Single-Cell Omics Community, focusing on data analysis from Single-Cell and Spatial Omics technologies.

The survey aims to understand the current training efforts in the field of single-cell omics, collect information on training materials and identify areas or technologies that lack training materials.

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Updates from other initatives

EOSC symposium 23

20-22 September 2023 | Madrid, Spain

In the context of the EOSC Future project, the EOSC Symposium will also be a critical platform to showcase project achievements and key exploitable results.

To support this gathering of EOSC experts, the event organises an exhibition showcasing key players and the most important contributions from projects and organisations. More information on the opportunity to put up a booth

More information and registration

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 Events and Conferences

IDP Community F2F/hybrid Meeting
3-4 July 2023 | Hybrid - Bratislava, Slovakia

Emerging Microbiome/Marine Metagenomics Community meeting
12-13 September 2023 | Hybrid - Barcelona, Spain

Biodiversity Community F2F & Implementation Study meeting
13-15 September 2023 | Hybrid - Barcelona, Spain

BioHackathon Europe 2023
30 October - 3 November 2023 | Barcelona, Spain

Job vacancies

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Lund University

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University College London

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VIB