New Community-led implementation studies
This month we have launched seven new Community-led Implementation Studies that aim to integrate Community-oriented resources with the ELIXIR Platforms and other Communities. These projects were collectively awarded 1.5million from the ELIXIR Core Budget, and will run until 2023.
Read more in our latest news release.
New podcast episode! Living the European entrepreneurship dream
In the latest Data for Life podcast, Hannes and Kathi talk to Abel, a bioinformatician, serial entrepreneur, investor, mentor, and open science enthusiast. He's been living the European dream a Spanish-born, French-educated and British-inspired entrepreneur. Exploiting open research data, Abel built a thriving bioinformatics business, Eagle Genomics.
Discover the new episode
Call to action share your Node's industry activities
We are planning on having a section on the industry webpages with a map (similar to the COVID-19 activities in Nodes map) listing industry engagement projects of ELIXIR Nodes.
These could be industry engagement schemes, activities, projects, or maybe an industry relevant service you want to promote.
Provide data from your Node
Join us at these two ELIXIR webinars happening this week
ELIXIR 3D Bioinfo Community webinar series: #1 FAIR Infrastructure for protein structural and functional annotations
Tomorrow, 29 June | 15:00 CEST
BRENDA - the comprehensive enzyme information system
Thursday, 1 July | 16:00 CEST
Recommended reads of the week
ARPIR: automatic RNA-Seq pipelines with interactive report
An ELIXIR Italy and CINECA paper
There are many software tools available for each phase of the RNA-Seq analysis and each of them uses different algorithms. [...] ARPIR allows the analysis of RNA-Seq data from groups undergoing different treatment allowing multiple comparisons in a single launch and can be used either for paired-end or single-end analysis.
Continue reading...
Different mutations in SARS-CoV-2 associate with severe and mild outcome
An ELIXIR Hungary paper
Genomic alterations in a viral genome can lead to either better or worse outcome and identifying these mutations is of utmost importance. Here, we correlated protein-level mutations in the SARS-CoV-2 virus to clinical outcome. We demonstrate that mutations in the viral genes may have a direct correlation to clinical outcome.
Continue reading...
Updates from Focus Groups
New European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Focus Group
Please sign up to the mailing list for the new EOSC Focus Group; set up to coordinate ELIXIR activities around EOSC. For questions and further information please contact Compute Platform lead, Jonathan Tedds jonathan.tedds@elixir-europe.org.
Find out more
Updates from Platforms
Your help needed! Survey on computational notebooks
Please take five minutes to fill in the survey on how researchers use computational notebooks (e.g. Jupyter, R notebooks) for their research or training.
Take the survey
Updates from Communities
Learn how to analyse COVID-19 data with Galaxy
9-12 August 2021 | Virtual The goal of this workshop is to build capacity in SARS-CoV-2 data analysis and data management, including data submission to ENA. After the workshop, all participants will be able to upload viral sequencing data, call all variants, create a variety of reports and create consensus alignments.
Register here Updates from Nodes
Read the special issue on advancing bioinformatics research in Latin America
Read this new Royal Society special issue documenting the highlights from the ISCB-LA SoIBio BioNetMX 2020. Organised in part by Cath Brooksbank from EMBL-EBI training.
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CSC opens new sensitive data services
CSC has launched two new sensitive data (SD) services that enable processing and managing all types of SD. These services aim to improve usability and smooth integration to existing CSC infrastructure, and have been developed with extensive user feedback. This was was funded in through the Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration (NeIC) and ELIXIR.
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Last chance for early bird registration for the [BC]2 Computational Biology Conference
13 - 15 September 2021 | Basel, Switzerland
Early bird registration deadline: 4 July 2021
Be wise and make sure you don't miss the opportunity to register at a reduced cost. ELIXIR is also hosting a Innovation and SME Forum as part of the conference on Preventive Medicine, so ensure you sign up for that too when you register!
Register now
Browse the SIB Profile 2021
Browse the activity report 2020 of the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics: research, collaborations and teams, with a focus on contributions to fight COVID-19 and on machine learning.
Read the activity report
Do you want to make the most of your scientific website, database or software?
ind out how to apply user-centred design in life science resources in this in silico talk about the new Expasy, the bioinformatics resource portal of the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
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Interested in metabolism modelling, synthetic biology or system biology?
Watch A unified namespace for metabolic models, an in silico talk about MetaNetX/MNXref
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UK Conference of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology 2021
28-30 September 2021 |Online
Abstract submission deadline: 1 August
The UK-CBCB conference will cover the breadth of biological data management, analysis and sharing. This event will bring together biologists, bioinformaticians, computer scientists, software engineers and data scientists across the life sciences, to share innovations, applications and best practice in their fields.
Visit the conference website
Find out more about ELIXIR-UK in this featured article
The activities of ELIXIR-UK has been highlighted in a special featured article published by the Earlham Institute.
Read more
Updates from other initiatives
Fill in the Instruct-ERIC survey on structural biology
Deadline 15 July Instruct-ERIC is reviewing the structural biology capabilities within Europe to review and update the Instruct infrastructure and better respond to the needs of the structural biologists. Please share with your colleagues
Fill in the survey
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. A link off to the TeSS portal
3D Bioinfo webinar series: #1 FAIR Infrastructure for protein structural and functional annotations
29 June 2021 | 15:00 CEST
ELIXIR Webinar: BRENDA the comprehensive enzyme information system
1 July 2021 | 16:00 CEST
SARS-CoV-2 Data analysis and monitoring with Galaxy
9 - 12 August 2021 | Virtual
SIB course: Advanced Statistics: Statistical Modelling
16 - 19 August 2021 | Virtual
ELIXIR Events and Conferences
Virtual working-meeting on RO Crate usage in canonical workflow frameworks
2 July 2021 | Virtual
Showcasing ELIXIR/EOSC-Life workflow collaboratory work
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
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
PhD student - Phylogenomics (R1)
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS)
Postdoctoral researcher - Phylogenomics (R2)
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS)
Data Manager (80%-100%)
SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Data Manager - Data Services and Infrastructure Support
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS)