Weekly Brief, 29 March

Submit your BioHackathon project proposal

Deadline this Thursday! 1 April

The deadline to submit your project proposal for this year's BioHackathon Europe is rapidly approaching.

Make sure you don't miss out on your opportunity to collaborate and network with a diverse community of bioinformaticians!
Submit your project proposal

We're hiring at the Hub

We have two open positions:
Technical Coordinator: ELIXIR Human Genomics and Translational Data projects Deadline 30 March
Read more and apply
ELIXIR Training Coordinator Deadline 20 April
Read more and apply

Submit an abstract for our ecosystem of health SME Forum

What are the missing pieces of the puzzle to develop knowledge and preventive medicine? We're looking for abstracts on:

Health data collection technologies (hardware and software) focusing on healthy citizens and/or patients in the post-treatment phase
Data management
Research or data integration and analysis
Converting learnings into healthcare guidelines/policies.

Abstract submission deadline is 16 April and the event will run 13 - 15 September 2021.

Event information and abstract submission

Updates from Nodes

Last chance to fill out the EMBL-EBI Impact Survey

This survey is set to be the largest data set on open data in recent years. Help it on it's way and please take the time to fill it in!
Deadline 31 March
Fill in the survey

Success for the first CAKUT pathway curation workshop

On the 4 February, ELIXIR-NL hosted their first online pathway curation workshop; 12 researchers from Canada, France, Germany, Israel, UK, USA and the Netherlands joined the workshop.

Within the rare disease portal of WikiPathways they created a group of Congenital Anomalies of the Kidney and Urinary Tract (CAKUT). It was a successful meeting, showing that modelling specialists collaborate best with domain experts to create pathways for data analysis.

View the rare disease WikiPathways database

Job vacancies for Data Stewards and Training

ELIXIR-UK are recruiting three new roles as part of our UKRI funded FAIR Data Stewardship Training Project. There are two Data Steward Content Developer and Trainer roles, and one Data Stewardship Training and Community Manager. The roles are based at the University of Bradford but can be remote.

Deadline to apply is Monday 19th of April

View job details and apply

Updates from Platforms

Submit Data Platform Implementation Study proposals

Deadline 31 March

Call for Scalable Curation Implementation Study Proposals now open! The call aims to improve data resource management across ELIXIR. Deadline 31 March.
View details and submit your proposal

Updates from Communities

Call for new co-lead of the Federated Human Data Community

Deadline 31 March

llkka Lappalainen (ELIXIR-FI) will stand down from co-lead of the ELIXIR Federated Human Data Community. We would like to thank Ilkka for his time, enthusiasm, and hard work during his time as co-lead.

We are opening up a period for self-nomination. Candidates should submit a short statement of their background and what they believe they will bring to the role.

Submit nominations to gary.saunders@elixir-europe.org

All good things come to an end...

(but you can always find them again!)
Last week was the final webinar in the Galaxy Advanced webinar series. Although it is the end of these live events, you can watch all the webinars at any time on our website and ELIXIR YouTube channel.

Watch back the full series

New training video on importing (COVID-19) workflows into Galaxy

Thanks to a great Collaboration between the Galaxy Community, Dockstore and the EOSC Workflow Hub, it is also possible to import a workflow directly into Galaxy and run it. This is using the GH4GH API TRS. We have created a video showcasing the process for a COVID-19 data analysis workflow.

Watch the video here

Updates from Focus Groups

Health Data Focus Group workshop

31 March 2021 | 10:00-13:00 CET | Online The purpose of this workshop is to understand the status of each ELIXIR Node with respect to their normal (business as usual) health data research related activities and how they have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic, to find commonalities and gaps across ELIXIRs Nodes. All welcome.
View the full agenda and register Other research infrastructure updates

Read the new EOSC-Life achievements brochure

EOSC-Life have released an engaging new achievements brochure to coincide with their AGM that was held last week. It's a fantastic document that highlights outcomes of the project in its first 2 years.

The 12-page brochure features an updated design and offers a brief overview of the project, followed by achievements across a range of areas.
Read the EOSC-Life brochure

How FAIR are you? New CINECA webinar series and hackathon

The CINECA project is organising a How FAIR are you webinar series and hackathon aimed at increasing and facilitating the uptake of FAIR approaches into software, training materials and cohort data. Upcoming deadlines are in the events section below.
View all the details

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

EOSC-Life: What does a course handbook look like?

9 April 2021 | 11:00 CEST | Online
EOSC-Life Exchange of Experience workshop: remote access and user training

Registration deadline 30 March

ELIXIR Events and Conferences

Innovation and SME Forum: Building the learning ecosystem of health: from data tracking to preventive medicine

1315 September 2021 | Online 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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