Weekly Brief, 29 April 2024

This week's highlights

Join 2024 ELIXIR All Hands virtually

2024 ELIXIR All Hands in person participation is now full. People wish to join All Hands this year can still register for virtual participation. Please see the website for the details of the hybrid sessions and streamed sessions.

Virtual option registration link
Event website

Recommended reads

PED in 2024: improving the community deposition of structural ensembles for intrinsically disordered proteins

An ELIXIR-IT paper

The Protein Ensemble Database (PED) is the primary resource for depositing structural ensembles of intrinsically disordered proteins. This updated version of PED reflects advancements in the field, denoting a continual expansion with a total of 461 entries and 538 ensembles, including those generated without explicit experimental data through novel machine learning techniques. PED was enriched with several new features and will keep growing in size and expanding with new types of ensembles generated by accurate and fast ML-based generative models and coarse-grained simulations. Future priority will be further developing the database to be compatible with ensembles modelled at a coarse-grained level.

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UNCAN.eu: Toward a European Federated Cancer Research Data Hub

An UNCAN.eu paper

Recognising the urgent need for a new level of investment and action against cancer, Europe's Beating Cancer Plan and the Mission on Cancer illustrate the institutional commitment to unite efforts across Europe to better understand this disease and enhance the management of patients. One of the 10 flagship initiatives of the Europe's Beating Cancer Plan converge in supporting the launch of a European initiative to increase our UNderstanding of CANcer, UNCAN.eu. Through a Coordination and Support Action named 4.UNCAN.eu, we are preparing a blueprint to guide the creation of a fully fledged, sustainable UNCAN.eu platform in Europe.


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Updates from Nodes

Top 6 data attributes for policymakers

FAIRsharing, together with the Digital Curation Centre and the UK Reproducibility Network, has identified concrete expectations for UK institutions around open research data. By aligning policy metadata with established standards and attributes, FAIRsharing aims to facilitate the creation and discoverability of FAIR-aligned data policies.

Read the article

Updates from Communities

FAIR-ification of Toxicological Research Output: Leveraging ELIXIR Resources

28-29 May 2024 | Utrecht, Netherlands

The ELIXIR Toxicology Community is organising its first workshop as part of the Implementation Study, INTOXICOM. This workshop will contain keynotes from invited experts, discussions on current data challenges in project consortia, and hands-on sessions.

More information and registration

Updates from Focus Groups

Pathogen Data Focus Group kick-off meeting

28 May 2024 | 15:00-16:00 CEST

The new ELIXIR Pathogen Data Focus Group is engaging with a network of experts for advanced bioinformatics data platforms and collaborative data-sharing initiatives, aiming to facilitate the integration and utilisation of high-quality pathogen data for research and surveillance. Join the Focus Group kick-off meeting to learn its focus and objectives.

Agenda with Zoom link

Updates from other initiatives

BY-COVID Spring 2024 Baseline Use Case Workshop

6 June 2024 | 9:30 - 12:00 CEST | Online

The BY-COVID project is holding a workshop on the integration of individual-level socioeconomic data for infectious disease research and prevention in Europe. The workshop aims to identify solutions for integrating socioeconomic data in population health research, generalise such solutions in various disciplinary and geographical contexts (EU-level focus) and translate the workshop findings into an innovative workflow standard.

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

ELIXIR IDP Community meeting
13 May 2024 | 10:00 - 18:00 CEST | Thessaloniki, Greece

ELIXIR All Hands 2024
10-12 June 2024 | Uppsala, Sweden

ECCB 2024
16-20 September 2024 | Turku, Finland

BioHackathon Europe 2024
4 - 8 November 2024 | 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
 

Research Software Engineer

RECETOX, Masaryk University

ELIXIR Science Officer

ELIXIR Hub

PostDoc Cheminformatics

Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry

PostDoc Bioinformatics (metabolomics)

Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry