Register now for ELIXIR All Hands
1-11 June 2021
Deadline 14 May
Registration is now open for the ELIXIR All Hands 2021!
Please note: that you need to be logged into the intranet to register. If you have not registered for the ELIXIR Intranet before, you will need to do so. Logging in with through the AAI will not be sufficient.
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Join us at the next ELIXIR Bioinformatics Industry Forum
19 May 2021
Join speakers from EMBL-EBI, Google Cloud, and BioStrand as they share their insights on how Cloud systems can be used for multi-omics analysis, including topics such as automating data integration, building custom analysis and importing public datasets, and more.
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APICURON: a database to credit and acknowledge the work of biocurators
An ELIXIR Italy paper
APICURON is an open and freely accessible resource that tracks and credits the work of biocurators across multiple participating knowledgebases. Biocuration is essential to extract knowledge from research data and make it available in a structured and standardized way to the scientific community. APICURON collects biocuration events from third-party resources and aggregates this information, spotlighting biocurator contributions.
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Computational deconvolution to estimate cell type-specific gene expression from bulk data
An ELIXIR Finland paper
Computational deconvolution is a time and cost-efficient approach to obtain cell type-specific information from bulk gene expression of heterogeneous tissues like blood. The estimation of cell type proportions/abundances is widely studied, but less attention has been paid on defining the cell type-specific expression profiles. Here, we address this gap by introducing a novel method Rodeo and empirically evaluating it and the other available tools.
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Updates from Platforms
New release for BridgeDB, an ELIXIR-NL resource
ELIXIR Recommended Interoperability Resource, BridgeDb, has seen a major Java library release. Major changes include: support for compact identifiers (an identifiers.org standard) and secondary identifier support.
The webservice has been running this version for some months now and the BridgeDbR BioConductor package has been using it too. The new BridgeDb Webservice also has initial support of Complex Portal identifiers for SARS-CoV-2 complexes.
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Updates from Communities
Galaxy Europe integrating SARS-CoV-2 data from COG-UK
Making use of the open, raw sequencing data in the COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium (COG-UK) and the Viral Beacon, Galaxy Europe have developed an automated pipeline to pull and process COVID-19 data. Variants are automatically called and data is shown through an interactive ObservableHQ instance.
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Updates from Nodes
ELIXIR-CZ invites you for Friday coffee
Fridays, weekly | 09:30-10:00 CEST
Meet us online every Friday morning to explore the portfolio of ELIXIR CZ tools and services. Mark this month's upcoming ELIXIR-CZ Friday webinars in your calendar:
- 7 May: FireProt: Computational tool
- 14 May: 2DProts: Family-wide 2D diagrams
- 21 May: Traveler: visualization of secondary structure of RNA
- 28 May: cpPredictor: template based prediction of RNA
9th Repeat Explorer workshop: plant special
25 May - 11 June
ELIXIR-CZ invites you to the 9th RepeatExplorer Workshop on the Application of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) to Repetitive DNA Analysis . The workshop will focus on theoretical and practical aspects of using NGS data for analysing repeat composition of plant genomes.
Event details and registration
Women in data science - perspectives in industry and academia
18 June 2021 | 15:00-17:30 CEST
Join ELIXIR Germany and Bayer for this co-hosted event on women in data science. Many ELIXIR names grace the speaker list, offering perspectives on the working life as a woman in both industry and academia in the data science sector.
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Join the ELIXIR-NL retreat at BioSB
14 June 2021
Abstract deadline today, May 3! At the annual BioSB conference ELIXIR-NL will have an ELIXIR-NL Retreat on June 14, 2021, preceding the conference and there will be an ELIXIR-NL track in the conference. Abstract submissions are due today, 3 May.
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ELIXIR-NL at the FAIR Roadmap session
Celia van Gelder presented work carried out by ELIXIR-NL on 'Professionalising data stewardship' at the Neuroinformatics Assembly (INCF) 2021 in the FAIR Roadmap session.
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If you're interested in learning more please register for the upcoming ELIXIR Webinar in which Celia will present alongside Mijke Jetten on Professionalising Data Stewardship.
Webinar details Updates from other initiatives
Help enhance the EOSC Portal & fill in the survey
Deadline 10 May 18:00 CEST
EOSC Enhance is launching an open survey targeting the entire EOSC community, to look more closely at individuals who create EOSC, understand who they are, where they come from and, most importantly, what they need in their everyday (research) activities; expected enhancements that can be introduced in the next Portal release in autumn 2021. Survey takes ~ 15 minutes.
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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
ELIXIR-CZ Friday Coffee: FireProt: Computational tool
7 May 2021 | 9:30 CEST
Women in data science - perspectives in industry and academia
18 June 2021 | 15:00-17:30 CEST
9th Repeat Explorer workshop
25 May - 11 June
ELIXIR Events and Conferences
ELIXIR Webinar: Towards professionalising data stewardship
18 May 2021 | 15:00 CEST
ELIXIR Bioinformatics Industry Forum (EBIF): Cloud systems for multi-omics analysis
19 May 2021 | 16:30 - 18:30 CEST
Innovation and SME Forum: Building the learning ecosystem of health: from data tracking to preventive medicine
1315 September 2021 | Online
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