Weekly Brief, 30 August 2021

This week's highlights

Deadlines are fast approaching for these ELIXIR events

ELIXIR Innovation and SME forum at [BC]2

Registration deadline 6 September
Event details and registration

BioHackathon Europe

Registration deadline 15 September
Event details and registration

Recommended reads of the week

MultipleTesting.com: A tool for life science researchers for multiple hypothesis testing correction

An ELIXIR Hungary paper

Scientists from nearly all disciplines face the problem of simultaneously evaluating many hypotheses.To facilitate multiple-testing corrections, we developed a fully automated solution not requiring programming skills or the use of a command line. Our registration free online tool is available at www.multipletesting.com and compiles the five most frequently used adjustment tools.
Read more...

VERSO: A comprehensive framework for the inference of robust phylogenies and the quantification of intra-host genomic diversity of viral samples

An ELIXIR Italy paper
The gravity of the COVID-19 pandemic has fostered a surge of works analyzing SARS-CoV-2 consensus sequences to reconstruct phylogenomic models of its evolution and diffusion. Yet, such approaches do not account for intra-host genomic diversity and may deliver inaccurate predictions in conditions of noisy data and sampling limitations. We propose VERSO, a data-science framework for the characterization of viral evolution from sequencing data.
Read more...

Updates from Communities

Announcing a new ELIXIR Plant Community co-lead

We are pleased to announce that Sebastian Beier (Leibniz Institut IPK Gattersleben) of ELIXIR Germany has been elected as the new co-lead of the Community, joining Kristina Gruden and Cyril Pommier.

Sebastian has already contributed to the Community as an interim co-lead and we are happy to now officially welcome him. We'd like to thank everyone who participated in the voting process and the other nominees.

ELIXIR Metabolomics Community Fluxomics Training School 2021

4-8 October 2021 | 09:00-17:00 CET | Virtual

The ELIXIR Metabolomics Community would like to invite you to this five day virtual training course. This course will provide an introduction to the field of fluxomics and the experimental and computational methods used to estimate and predict metabolic fluxes.

Register by 3 September

Updates from Nodes

Enter the COVID-19 Data & Code reuse competition!

The Swedish COVID-19 Data Portal invites researchers and general public to take part in the COVID-19 Data & Code Reuse Competition. Participants (individuals or groups) should complete small-scale projects that make use of publicly shared data and/or code to combat the COVID-19 pandemic or any future pandemics.

Find out more and enter

New SIB training courses announced

Registrations are open for several SIB courses online, including on SIB resources such as Rhea and UniProtKB:

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

de.NBI: Data management plan for Beginners

Last few places remaining!
15 - 16 September 2021 | 10:00-13:00 | Virtual

ELIXIR Metabolomics Community Fluxomics Training School

4-8 October 2021 | 09:00-17:00 CET | Virtual

SIB training course: Version Control with Git

6-8 October 2021 | Virtual

SIB training course: Docker and Singularity for reproducible research: getting started with containers

14 October 2021 | Virtual

SIB training course:Mining enzyme data in UniProtKB using Rhea

22 October 2021 | Virtual

ELIXIR Events and Conferences

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

13 September 2021 | At the [BC]2 Conference, Basel, Switzerland
(virtual participation also available)

BioHackathon Europe 2021

8-12 November 2021 | Hybrid 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

Gestionnaire de projets de bioinformatique pour la sant

Institut Franais de Bioinformatique / ELIXIR-FR

DevOps for COVID-19 genomic monitoring

Institut Franais de Bioinformatique / ELIXIR-FR

Web Applications Developer

Institut Franais de Bioinformatique / ELIXIR-FR

System Developer

NBIS/ ELIXIR Swede

Data Stewardship Community Manager

University of Bradford