This week's highlights
ELIXIR 2024 Communities Handbook published
The 2024 version of the ELIXIR Communities Handbook has been published, applicable under the current ELIXIR Programme 2024 - 2028. It outlines the role and purpose of ELIXIR Communities including their responsibilities, benefits, and membership.
There are some changes under the new Programme, please reach out to communities@elixir-europe.org if you have any questions.
Check ELIXIR 2024 Communities Handbook on F1000
Announcement for the Human Data Communities Steering Group
The Human Data Communities Steering Group (HDC Steering Group), in coordination with the Head of the Human Genomics and Translational Data, will support the ELIXIR strategy development in this priority area throughout the 2024-2026 project plan within the ELIXIR Programme for 2024-28.
Sergi Beltran from ELIXIR-ES, Macha Nikolski from ELIXIR-FR, Dylan Spalding from ELIXIR-FI and Andrew Stubbs from ELIXIR-NL will comprise the HDC Steering Group, supporting the development of the roadmap, publications and open calls for the areas of data deposition, analysis and linkage.
We warmly welcome them and we are looking forward to working together to accelerate research in the Human Data and Translational Research scientific area.
Recommended reads
Be sustainable: EOSCLife recommendations for implementation of FAIR principles in life science data handling
An EOSC-Life paper
The main goals and challenges for the life science communities in the Open Science framework are to increase reuse and sustainability of data resources, software tools, and workflows, especially in largescale datadriven research and computational analyses. This paper shows how EOSCLife provides a model for sustainable data management according to FAIR principles, including solutions for sensitive and industryrelated resources, by means of crossdisciplinary training and best practices sharing.
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ChannelsDB 2.0: a comprehensive database of protein tunnels and pores in AlphaFold era
An ELIXIR-CZ paper
ChannelsDB 2.0 is an updated database providing structural information about the position, geometry and physicochemical properties of protein channelstunnels and poreswithin deposited biomacromolecular structures from PDB and AlphaFoldDB databases. The newly deposited information originated from several sources. The database stores information about geometrical features, e.g. length and radius, and physico-chemical properties based on channel-lining amino acids.
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Updates from Nodes
Learning to Code with Dodona: A Webinar for Educators
23 March 2024 | 11:00 - 12:00 CET | Online
Join the ELIXIR Belgium online webinar to discover how Dodona can enhance your programming, statistics and data science education.
More information
First DNA library of nearly 500 antibiotic-resistant bacteria published in Spain
Genomic sequences of bacteria hold the key to whether these bacteria can be fought with certain antibiotics or not. These genomic profiles constitute the main digital contents of the first library of nearly 500 antibiotic-resistant bacteria published in Spain.
Updates from Focus Groups
Professionalising careers in Research Infrastructures Focus Group meeting
9 February 2024 | 11:00 - 12:00 CET | Online
Join the discussion about how to support career development and professionalisation of research infrastructure personnel. Subscribe to the mailing list on the Focus Group page to receive the invitations.
More about the Focus Group
Updates from other initiatives
Open Event: Biodiversity data integration genomics & beyond
15 February 2024 | 9:45 - 13:30 CET | Hybrid - Hinxton, UK
BiCIKL is holding an open event to present the main results of the project and discuss the future of biodiversity and genomics data integration with ELIXIR Biodiversity Community and ELIXIR Plant Science Community.
More information and registration
Awareness in data management and analysis for industry and research
5 - 6 March 2024 | Online
Registration deadline: 5 February 2024
This hands-on workshop will introduce the participants to data management processes and activities in academia and industry. Good data management prevents data loss and saves time, money and resources. It also helps to meet formal and legal requirements, improves teamwork and collaboration, and ensures transparency, verifiability and reproducibility.
More information and registration
Webinar: Using containers as SPEs in federated research architectures for health data reuse
27 February 2023 | 15:00 - 16:45 CET | Online
BY-COVID is holding a webinar on using containers as Secure Processing Environments to deploy federated research architectures reusing health data. This workshop targets the BY-COVID WP5 baseline use-case and any BY-COVID partner, or anyone interested in the topic.
More information and registration
Two new leadership opportunities - Data Security Work Stream and Cancer Community
- GA4GH is looking for two Co-Leads for the Data Security Work Stream. The GA4GH Data Security Work Stream (DSWS) aims to develop technology standards and guidelines for identity management, data security, privacy protection, and service assurance. The Data Security Co-Leads will be at the heart of GA4GH standards development and help define the product roadmap for the next few years.
Submit your nominations by 23 February 2024 - GA4GH is searching to fill one Co-Lead position for the Cancer Community. The Cancer Community Co-Lead will provide leadership and direction for the group, collaborate with GA4GH Work Streams and initiatives, recognise opportunities for new GA4GH products, and build community and consensus.
Submit your nominations by 26 February 2024
WorkflowHub - SOPs workshop
9 February 2024 | 14:00 - 16:00 CET | Online
The workshop will provide guidance on how to use WorkflowHub to organise, share and publish their SOPs, as well as hosting short presentations to describe SOPs usage and hosting resources, and discuss metadata requirements for SOPs in Biodiversity.
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
de.NBI: Maximizing the Potential of Agricultural Research Data: A Guide to Crafting an Effective Data Management Plan
15 February 2024 | Online
SIB course: NGS - Genome Variant Analysis
26-27 February 2024 | Bern, Switzerland
SIB course: Enrichment Analysis
11 March 2024 | Online
de.NBI Spring School 2024 - Bioinformatics for Microbial Omics
18-22 March | Bielefeld, Germany
EMBL-EBI: Microscopy data analysis: machine learning and the BioImage Archive
22-26 April 2024 | Online
ELIXIR Events and Conferences
ELIXIR Compute Platform 2024 Face-to-Face Meeting
24 January 2024 | Brno, Czech Republic
Training Platform and Coordinators Triangle co-located event
4-6 March 2024 | Prague, Czech Republic
ELIXIR All Hands 2024
10-12 June 2024 | Uppsala, Sweden
ECCB 2024
16-20 September 2024 | Turku, Finland
Job vacancies
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Executive Assistant to the ELIXIR Director
ELIXIR Hub
CarrerasLeaders postdoctoral fellowships in blood cancers
Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute (IJC)