Weekly Brief, 27 September 2021

This week's highlights

Join the new ELIXIR Biocuration Focus Group Kick-off meeting

6 October 2021 | Virtual, 17:00-18:00 CEST

This meeting is open to everyone at ELIXIR and other invited participants.

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Next ELIXIR RDA Focus Group meeting

The ELIXIR RDA Focus Group is getting ready for the upcoming 18th RDA Plenary Meeting and calling for the next quarterly meeting

If you are involved in RDA activities in any capacity, we invite you to the next Focus Group meeting.

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Recommended reads of the week

The ELIXIR Human Copy Number Variations Community: building bioinformatics infrastructure for research

An ELIXIR Community paper

Copy number variations (CNVs) are major causative contributors both in the genesis of genetic diseases and human neoplasias. While High-Throughput sequencing technologies are increasingly becoming the primary choice for genomic screening analysis, their ability to efficiently detect CNVs is still heterogeneous and remains to be developed. The aim of this white paper is to provide a guiding framework for the future contributions of ELIXIRs recently established human CNV Community, with implications beyond human disease diagnostics and population genomics.
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Arabidopsis Coexpression Tool: a tool for gene coexpression analysis inArabidopsis thaliana

An ELIXIR Greece paper

Gene coexpression analysis refers to the discovery of sets of genes which exhibit similar expression patterns across multiple transcriptomic data sets, such as microarray experiment data of public repositories. Arabidopsis Coexpression Tool (ACT), a gene coexpression analysis web tool for Arabidopsis thaliana, identifies genes which are correlated to a driver gene.
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Updates from Nodes

ELIXIR-FI article: Teaching an algorithm to identify cancer from sequence data

Esa Pitknen and his team at the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland are developing a new generation of deep-learning algorithms. In the future, learning algorithms will be able to identify potential early-stage cancers from a blood sample.
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Meet the new ELIXIR-UK FAIR Data Stewardship Training Fellows

ELIXIR-UK welcomes the first nine Fellows who have been selected for the ELIXIR-UK FAIR data stewardship training Fellowship 2021. The fellows have been selected for their experience, passion and knowledge of data stewardship and training in the life sciences. They will join as part of the UKRI-funded FAIR data stewardship training project to produce training materials, develop their skills and foster a data steward community across the UK.
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Updates from Communities

Submit your abstract for the 3D-Bioinfo Annual meeting

2-4 November 2021 | 13:00-17:00 CET | Virtual

Registration is now open for the 3D-Bioinfo Community's annual meeting. Come along to find out more about this Community's exciting activities and plans. There are also some slots available for posts and short talks.

27 September: Poster and talk abstract deadline
31 October: Registration deadline
Find out more and register

Join the third 3D-Bioinfo Community Webinar

19 October 2021 | Online, 15:00 CEST

This webinar on the Development of models for protein-ligand interactions will feature talks from speakers from ELIXIR-CH:

Vincent Zoete: Development of models for protein-ligand interactions
Ute Rhrig: Development of reliable Benchmark Sets for Structure-Based Drug Design: Focus on Metalloproteins and Covalent Interactions
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Updates from Platforms

ELIXIR at the Open Science FAIR 2021

ELIXIR's work on ELIXIR-CONVERGE Research Data Management Kit (RDMkit) and other activities were presented in two sessions at last week's OSFair2021:

ELIXIR Training Platform co-organised the workshop 'The RDM Training and Support Catalogue' and Celia van Gelder presented and discussed TeSS, its features and challenges in the emerging ecosystem of RDM Catalogues.
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Pinar Alper presented the RDMKit, where we recapped ELIXIRs mission and its support for FAIR data through various resources.
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Updates from other initiatives

RDA-EOSC Future Open Calls for Optimising Open Science Framework and Guidelines in the context of EOSC

Are you looking to utilise supplementary funding for ongoing activities in the scope of EOSC and Open Science? This is a phased call with the first closing date on 29 October 2021. Some ideas have been informally discussed in various groups interacting with EOSC and collated here.

ELIXIR members are encouraged to submit individual applications. For more information, please see the recording of the informative session, and the accompanying slide presentation.

Submit your application

Should you require further assistance, please feel free to contact your Platform/Community Coordinators.

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-DE: Pathogen research through VEuPathDB resources

11-12 October 2021 | Virtual

ELIXIR-IL: Train the Trainer

4-7 October 2021 | Virtual

ELIXIR-CH: Mining enzyme data in UniProtKB using Rhea

22 October 2021 | Virtual

ELIXIR Events and Conferences

BioHackathon Europe 2021

8-12 November 2021 | Hybrid Barcelona, Spain

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

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