Recommended read for today
'The bioinformatics wealth of nations'
What is the impact of bioinformatics publications from countries around the globe?
Earlier in May, colleagues at the Greek Node wrote this revealing paper that highlights the high productivity of smaller countries in bioinformatics research.
Grasp the complexities of the bioinformatics publication landscape and discover your country's productivity level.
Read the article at Europe PMC
1+MG needs your expert feedback
The European 1+ Million Genomes Initiative wants to understand what genomic datasets and corresponding phenotypic/clinical information can participate in 1+MG.
The initiative also wants to know the challenges and bottlenecks for sharing data to develop technical and policy solutions.
The survey is available on the European Commissions EU Survey platform.
IMI scientific committee shares recommendations on data infrastructures
The Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) has recently shared a set of recommendations on data infrastructures and integrations. The report emphasises the outstanding work of ELIXIR, several ELIXIR-coordinated projects and other related initiatives.
Tip of the week
Did you know you can access the Weekly Brief archive?
Imagine you remember that a few weeks back you spotted and interesting link, but you have deleted the email. Then you can navigate the last twenty Weekly Briefs on the MailChimp archive. And if you want to go back to older issues, you can visit our intranet page
Updates from Platforms
Online event | ELIXIR Training Platform resources & services for Communities
9 September 2020 | 12:00 CEST
If you are an ELIXIR Community member and you want to develop training courses and materials, this online event is for you.
You can discover how you can benefit from the Training Platform services and contribute to them too. The presenters will also cover how to measure the impact of training and find the right impact metrics, and discuss training optimisation strategies.
Updates from Communities
Community-led Implementation studies 2021
Request for proposals
All proposals must be led by a recognised ELIIXR Community and submitted online. Those potential applicants should note two deadlines:
- 14 September 2020 | Expressions of Interest deadline
- 31 October 2020 | Submission Deadline
Q&A Zoom Call for submission processes and requirements
12 August 2020 | 15:30 CEST
For any queries, please address them to proposals@elixir-europe.org
Go to the call for proposals document
Updates from other initiatives
Recommended read | Data FAIRification with FAIRplus
FAIRplus participants have been working with the RESOLUTE consortium to FAIRify their early data outcomes and to establish sustainable FAIR data processes. As a result, all data were deposited in public databases making a big impact on the potential reuse of RESOLUTE outcomes.
Read the news release
About FAIRplus
An ELIXIR-coordinated project to develop tools and guidelines for making life science data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR).
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
First Steps in statistics for life sciences
9-10 September 2020 | Online
ELIXIR Events and Conferences
19th European Conference on Computational Biology
31 August8 September 2020 | Online
Registration for the virtual ECCB2020 is now open!
EuroScience Open Forum
26 September 2020 | Trieste, Italy and Online
ELIXIR will present 'Open Data InfrastructureA Driver for Innovation Ecosystem' during the Science to business session (Track: Innovation Ecosystems).
ELIXIR BioHakacthon Europe
913 November 2020 | Now Online
Registration is now open!
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
EMERGIA CALL for postdoctoral fellows
Andalusian Public Progress and Health Foundation (FPS)
Programmer / IT Specialist
Masaryk University
Postdoctoral researcher in cancer germline genetics at the Computational Biology group
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS)
Programmer / IT Specialist
RECETOX and Loschmidt Laboratories
Bioinformatics Technician at the INB coordination node
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS)