The ELIXIR COVID-19 workspace on Slack, which we opened last week is still growing. Please use this to discuss and exchange ideas on SARS-CoV-2 related research initiatives, consider opportunities for collaboration across ELIXIR Nodes and share results of your work on COVID-19 with other ELIXIR members.

If you haven't joined the workspace yet, don't forget to connect with us on Slack or email Katharina Lauer to be part of the conversation.

Selected examples of initiatives

New COVID-19 Disease Map

Several ELIXIR Nodes have developed a repository of curated diagrams that describe molecular mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2 and its interactions with the host immune system.

Contribute to building and using the resource to advance COVID-19 research.

Supported by ELIXIR resources:

WikiPathways
Reactome
FAIRdom
Minerva Platform
DisGeNET
BridgeDB

Making COVID-19 findable

Researchers at Maastricht University are making COVID-19 research literature more findable using Wikidata and Scholia.

Tip of the Week

Did you know about the ELIXIR Industry intranet group for updates on industry engagement opportunities and the ELIXIR industry programme?

Updates from Nodes

ELIXIR CH | Given the current COVID-19 situation, ELIXIR-CH is streaming most of the courses planned for the first semester. You can check out their webpage of upcoming courses for any updates and sign up to their courses mailing list to remain informed about any changes to the future training activities.

Keep an eye on the online training courses and webinars in the section below Updates from Communities

All Community workshops are cancelled because of COVID-19, and we are not currently scheduling or organising workshops.
We hope to be able to recommence later in the year and will let you know when we are open for business again!

The ELIXIR plant community published a significant update of the MIAPPE, much of which has been implemented programmatically in the Plant Breeding API.
Read it here. Job board

All vacancies are also published on the ELIXIR website vacancies section (also including vacancies from industry). Submit vacancies from your Node or industry partners.

Post-doc position in protein bioinformatics
SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics

Bioinformatician, genomic analyses of pediatric sarcomas
Princess Mxima Center for Pediatric Oncology

Postdoctoral fellow in biological data science at the Structural Bioinformatics and Network Biology group
Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) - part of ELIXIR-ES

Postdoctoral fellow in bioinformatics at the Structural Bioinformatics and Network Biology group
Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) - part of ELIXIR-ES

Postdoc: Molecular Modelling and Novel Strategies for Computational Protein Design
Masaryk University