This week's highlights
ELIXIR EOSC Strategy 2022
ELIXIR has recently released a document detailing ELIXIR Europe's strategy for engagement with the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and how ELIXIR will engage with and contribute to the EOSC.
Read the document
Biodiversity Genomics Europe launched last Wednesday
Biodiversity Genomics Europe (BGE) was launched last Wednesday. The pan-European project will bring together BIOSCAN Europe and European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA) in an unprecedented effort to reverse the biodiversity crisis through large-scale application of genomics research.
Check the project website
Reminder: EBIF registration closing soon
11 October 2022 | London, UK
This year, EBIF is focusing on enabling ecosystems for Machine Learning in the Life Sciences. The programme includes a mixture of presentations and round table discussions.
More information and registration
Two job vacancies at ELIXIR Project Management Office
Technical Portfolio Manager- Scientific Services and Support
EC Project Manager-Technical Support
Recommended reads
Rhea, the reaction knowledgebase in 2022
An ELIXIR-CH paper
Rhea is an expert-curated knowledgebase of biochemical reactions based on the chemical ontology ChEBI (Chemical Entities of Biological Interest). In this paper, the authors describe a number of key developments in Rhea since our last report in the database issue of Nucleic Acids Research in 2019. These include improved reaction coverage in Rhea, the adoption of Rhea as the reference vocabulary for enzyme annotation in the UniProt knowledgebase, UniProtKB, the development of a new Rhea website, and the designation of Rhea as an ELIXIR Core Data Resource.
Read more
A mosaic PIK3CA variant in a young adult with diffuse gastric cancer: case report
An EJP-RD paper
Hereditary diffuse gastric cancer (HDGC) is associated with germline deleterious variants in CDH1 and CTNNA1. The majority of HDGC-suspected patients are still genetically unresolved, raising the need for identification of novel HDGC predisposing genes. Re-analysis of whole-exome sequencing data from unresolved gastric cancer cases identified a mosaic missense variant in PIK3CA in a female with diffuse gastric cancer (DGC) without familial history for cancer. This report highlights mosaicism as a potential, and understudied, mechanism in the etiology of DGC.
Read more
Updates from Nodes
Top score for the SwissBioData ecosystem (SBDe) proposal in scientific evaluation
Led by SIB and 16 other Swiss institutions, the aim of SBDe is to boost Switzerlands capacity to convert research data into knowledge and innovation. SBDe builds on decades of collaborative projects and in-depth expertise around Open Science and FAIR principles.
Find out more about SBDe
OMA browser for ortholog and paralog needs
The OMA (Orthologous MAtrix) project is a method and database for the inference of orthologs among complete genomes. It is part of the SIB Resource SwissOrthology, and is developed and maintained by the group of Christophe Dessimoz.
Check OMA website
Updates from Platforms
Registration open for the ELIXIR Data and Interoperability Platforms joint Platform event
28-30 November 2022 | Geneva, Switzerland
Registration is possible for both online and in-person participation through the Eventscase website here. The final event programme will be determined and distributed in the coming weeks.
More information
Updates from Communities
Register for the ELIXIR 3DBioInfo Community F2F/hybrid meeting
2 - 4 November 2022 | Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, United Kingdom
Join the 3DBioInfo AGM 2022 at the Wellcome Genome Campus (or online) in November to discuss recent and future 3DBioInfo developments.
More information and registration
Updates from Other Initiatives
Registration open: ELIXIR/ERIC Forum side event at ICRI
19 October 2022 | 19:00-20:30 CEST | Hyrbid
The ERIC Forum, in collaboration with ELIXIR, will be organising a side event in the frame of ICRI 2022. The event will bring together policymakers, Research Infrastructures and the general public to raise awareness about Research Infrastructures role and contribution to the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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
SIB: First steps with R in Life Sciences
10-11 October 2022 | Zurich, Switzerland
SIB: Protein sequence databases and sequence annotation at UniProtKB
14 October 2022 | Virtual
20 October 2022 | Virtual
LS2 Prestige Webinar on Biodiversity informatics
25 October 2022 | 14:00-15:00 CET
SIB: Docker and Singularity for reproducible research: getting started with container
26 October 2022 | Virtual
SIB: Single-cell transcriptomics
14-16 November 2022 | Bern, Switzerland
SIB: NGS - Quality control, Alignment, Visualisation
21-23 November 2022 | Online
Data-Interoperability Platforms Hybrid F2F 2022
28-30 November 2022 | Geneva, Switzerland
SIB: Introduction to Bayesian statistics with R
30 November 2022 | Online
ELIXIR Events and Conferences
ELIXIR Bioinformatics Industry Forum: Enabling Ecosystems for Machine Learning in the Life Sciences
11 October 2022 | 10:00 to 16:00 CEST | London, UK
BioHackathon Europe
7-11 November 2022 | Paris, France
Job vacancies
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Bioinformatician(s) at NBIS
Lund University
Technical Portfolio Manager
ELIXIR Hub
EC Project Manager
ELIXIR Hub
Scientific Programmer (EMDB)
EMBL-EBI
Frontend developer
NBIS