Weekly Brief, 29 May 2023

This week's highlights

Updated version of ELIXIR's Long-term Sustainability Plan

ELIXIR updated its Long-term Sustainability Plan to show the actions to support the sustainability of ELIXIRs activities, particularly ELIXIR Nodes and the services they run.

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Launch of Biodiversity Community and ELIXIR's biodiversity projects

ELIXIR has launched a new Biodiversity Community to advance the life science data infrastructures support for biodiversity research. The Community brings together experts across ELIXIR with external partners to coordinate activities and build on ELIXIRs existing biodiversity portfolio.

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ELITMa - ELIXIR Training Program in Management

27-29 June 2023 | Espoo, Finland
Registration deadline: 16 June 2023

ELIXIR Training Program in Management (ELITMa) is a training course developed for Node Coordinators by ELIXIR-CONVERGE. Module 1 focuses on ELIXIR Governance and Organisational Behaviour and Module 2 focuses on Data Management Strategy.

More information and registration

Recommended reads

The FAIR Cookbook - the essential resource for and by FAIR doers

A FAIRplus project paper

To address the lack of practical guidance on applying FAIR principles, and help with capability gaps, the FAIRplus project developed the FAIR Cookbook, an open, online resource of hands-on recipes for FAIR doers in the Life Sciences. Created by researchers and data managers professionals in academia, (bio)pharmaceutical companies and information service industries, the FAIR Cookbook covers the key steps in a FAIRification journey, the levels and indicators of FAIRness, the maturity model, the technologies, the tools and the standards available, as well as the skills required, and the challenges to achieve and improve data FAIRness. Part of the ELIXIR ecosystem, and recommended by funders, the FAIR Cookbook is open to contributions of new recipes.

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The ELIXIR Biodiversity Community: Understanding short- and long-term changes in biodiversity

An ELIXIR Community white paper

Biodiversity loss is now recognised as one of the major challenges for humankind to address over the next few decades. ELIXIR can help address the technical challenges of biodiversity science, through leveraging its suite of services and expertise to enable data management and analysis activities that enhance our understanding of life on Earth and facilitate biodiversity preservation and restoration. This white paper, prepared by the ELIXIR Biodiversity Community, summarises the current status and responses, and presents a set of plans, both technical and community-oriented, that should both enhance how ELIXIR Services are applied in the biodiversity field and how ELIXIR builds connections across the many other infrastructures active in this area.

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Updates from Nodes

Webinar: Improving the accessibility of websites

8 June 2023 | 15:00-16:00 CEST

EMBL-EBI and EOSC Future are co-organising a webinar on Improving the accessibility of websites. In this webinar, the speaker will share practical tips on how to incorporate accessibility in the design and development process and share the lessons learned.

More information and registration

Single-cell RNA sequencing enabling individual disease treatment

The revolutionary single-cell RNA sequencing measures the activity of all genes separately in each cell, giving a more accurate picture of how cells differ from each other. This technology will produce a vast amount of information on diseases, such as cancer.

Read ELIXIR-FI article

Updates from Communities

Register for the IDP Community F2F/hybrid Meeting

3-4 July 2023 | Hybrid - Bratislava, Slovakia
Registration deadline: 8 June (in person) | 04 July (online)

The IDP Community will hold its F2F/hybrid Meeting in July. The meeting aims to unite experimentalists and method developers to discuss challenges and define joint opportunities in the field, specifically considering conformational ensembles evaluation against experimental data as well as representation of variability of conformational ensembles. A part of the meeting will be dedicated to the 2024-2028 Scientific Programme and the Community's possible role and activities.

The meeting will be held before the COST Action ML4NG Main Conference (July 4-7).

Find out more and register now

Survey to identify activities relevant for RD research across ELIXIR nodes, platforms and communities

Deadline: 4 June 2023

ELIXIR Rare Disease Community is conducting a survey with the aim to identify existing infrastructures, resources and initiatives from ELIXIR Platforms, Communities and Focus Groups useful for the rare disease community

Fill out the survey

Updates from other initiatives

PROPHET project website launch

PROPHET project has recently launched its website. The website provides information of the project, latest news and events and outcomes of the project.

Explore the website

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 All Hands 2023
5-8 June 2023 | Dublin, Ireland

IDP Community F2F/hybrid Meeting
3-4 July 2023 | Hybrid - Bratislava, Slovakia

BioHackathon Europe 2023
30 October - 3 November 2023 | 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
 

Data Steward with focus on human data management

Uppsala University

Fixed-term technical position: Services based on machine and deep learning methodologies for the analysis of biological sequences and structures

Biocomputing group - University of Bologna

Fixed-term technical position: Interoperability services for biomedical data

Biocomputing group - University of Bologna

BRENDA - Data Expert Biochemistry/Enzymology

Leibniz Institute DSMZ

SILVA - Scientist Microbial Ecology & Taxonomy

DSMZ