Weekly Brief, 27 April 2020

EBIF 2020 | Last day to register!

28 April 2020 | 14.00 BST Online

Tomorrow we will start the ELIXIR Bioinformatics Industry Forum

Remember that even if you had registered for the F2F event, you still need to register again for the Online meeting.
Register here

As part of the EBIF series of online events, we have prepared several online meetings for the following months. Save the dates:

All Hands 2020 agenda is now live

You can find the agenda here

Registration and additional poster submissions for the virtual event will open next Monday, May 4th of May.


New COVID-19 Resource: Interactive Map of National Initiatives

Navigate the map to find out what ELIXIR members are doing to support the fight against COVID-19 in their countries. The informaton will be updated periodically to include all Nodes activities.

Go to the map

How ELIXIR can support the Horizon Europe Missions

We have recently published three factsheets to highlight how we can support the Cancer, Healthy Oceans and Health Soils Missions in Horizon Europe.

Read here the full news release, and download and share our flyers

COVID-19 Updates

OUR DEDICATED WEBSITE

We have created an ELIXIR COVID-19 webpage to list all ELIXIR services that support researchers working on SARS-CoV-2. The site will be updated periodically to display new resources.

You can track our advance on compiling COVID-19 projects by accessing our shared document that includes all services and initiatives from the Nodes.

This is an internal document. Please, do not share outside ELIXIR.

ELIXIR COVID-19 SLACK WORKSPACE

Please, use this to discuss and exchange ideas on SARS-CoV-2 research initiatives, consider collaboration opportunities across ELIXIR Nodes and share results of your work on COVID-19 with other ELIXIR members.

If you haven't joined the workspace yet, don't forget to connect with us on Slack or email Katharina Lauer to be part of the conversation

SELECTED NATIONAL INITIATIVES

ELIXIR PT Develops a detection and therapeutics oligo database for SARS-CoV-2

CoV2ID is a database that evaluates therapeutic and detection protocols according to the virus genetic diversity.

ELIXIR EE Develops data collection services and modelling tools for hospitals

Scientists at the University of Tartu in Estonia have developed a portal to help hospitals collect data to track the spread of the disease.

ELIXIR HU creates a timeline Map

Csabai-bio tracks the spreading of the disease to predict the outcome of the outbreak in each country

Tip of the Week

In these hard times to communicate your research (both related and/or unrelated to COVID-19), it is worth checking the Node communications toolkit with social media guidelines, digital etiquette, recommendations to evaluate the impact and much more.

Updates from Platforms

New Global Biodata Coalition Website goes live

'A forum for research funders to better coordinate and share approaches for the efficient management and growth of biodata resources worldwide.'

Check here the website of this distributed infrastructure

COVID-19 Wikidata project booklet translated to Japanese

A booklet has been created using Markdown and SPARQL queries to summarize SARS-CoV-2 information. This booklet has now been translated to Japanese, an effort started during the online BioHackathon earlier this month.

Find it here

Wikipathways COVID-19 Portal now included in PubChem

The Wikipathways developed for the international COVIDPathways Project are now included in PubChem.

Find them here

Software Carpentry Course 2020: Computing Skills for Reproducible Research

2022 October 2020 | EMBL Heidelberg, Germany

de.NBI (ELIXIR Germany Node) will organise the course in collaboration with EMBL BioIT

Updates from Communities

New Galaxy Webinar Series on workflows for SARS-CoV-2 data

Find here the full programme

Session 1: Introduction to Galaxy and the Galaxy workflows for SARS-CoV-2 data analysis

30 April 2020 | 17.0018.00 CEST

Session 2: Genomics/Variant Calling

7 May 2020 | 17.0018.00 CEST

Session 3: Cheminformatics: Screening of the main protease

14 May 2020 | 17.0018.00 CEST

Session 4: Evolution of the Virus

20 May 2020 | 17.0018.00 CEST

Session 5: Deployment

28 May 2020 | 17.0018.00 CEST Updates from Focus Groups

Establishing New Focus Group on Systems Biology

We aim to consider and report how ELIXIR should support systems biology, and interact with other relevant groups in Europe and worldwide that coordinate systems biology.

Sign up here before the 8th of May

We invite anyone interested in joining. If you have already been in contact with us about this Focus Group you do not need to sign up again.

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.

Systems MedicineVirtual Spring Seminar Series 2020

29 April 202027 May 2020

ELIXIR Slovenia will organize these series where experts from all over the world will share their experiences with systems medicine, hosted by Prof Dr Damjana Rozman, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana

SARS-CoV-2 Glycobiology Webinar

30 April 2020 | Online

A tour of the glycoinformatics resources with information relevant to human SARS-CoV-2 infection presented by Frdrique Lisacek

Online Interoperability Platform Meeting

1112 May 2020 | Online

ELIXIR Events and Conferences

19th European Conference on Computational Biology

59 September 2020 | Sitges, Barcelona, Spain

ELIXIR BioHakacthon Europe

913 November 2020 | Barcelona, Spain Job vacancies

 

All vacancies are also published on the ELIXIR website vacancies section (also including vacancies from industry).
Submit vacancies from your Node or industry partners.


Bioinformatician, genomic analyses of pediatric sarcomas
Princess Mxima Center for Pediatric Oncology

Research Engineer at the Comparative Genomics group
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS)

Natural Language Processing engineer position at the Integrative Biomedical Informatics group
Research Programme on Biomedical Informatics (GRIB)

Angular GUI developer position at the PharmacoInformatics group
Research Programme on Biomedical Informatics (GRIB)

Bioinformatics Post-doc - Single Cell RNAseq of innate immune cells
Bordeaux Bioinformatics Center (CBiB)
 

News from other initiatives

e-IRG Workshop: Series of Webinars

Starting on the 25th of May 2020

Each webinar will address one of the key challenges of e-Infrastructures within the new ERA: future skills, partnerships and FAIR data. In these virtual sessions, participants are given the opportunity to interact with the speakers as well.

EGI Series of Webinars

Starting on April until July 2020

The webinars will introduce EGI's services, focus on specific technologies, and showcase communities that already benefit from them. They will also provide a perfect opportunity for both new and established colleagues to get up to date with the EGI services, approaches, communities and plans.

Recommended read: Health-RI Newsletter

We recommend reading the first Health-RI Newsletter released last week, which dedicated the first issue to the Dutch COVID-19 Data Support Programme.