This week's highlights
Join us at the Hub - 4 new posts
Science/Technical Officer
Life Science Communities and Open Science - 17 April Passionate about Open Science? Join us to connect the technical and scientific experts of ELIXIR, provide expertise on the ELIXIR infrastructure and evaluate new developments in data-centric life science research. Find out more
External Relations Office - 24 April
Interested in developing your skills in international and government relations? We are looking for someone to support the ELIXIR External Relations team and implement outreach activities to key stakeholders. Find out more
Project management pro? Two new posts available:
Project Manager/Senior Project Coordinator - 28 April. Find out more
Project Manager - 28 April. Find out more
BioHackathon Europe
7-11 November 2022 | Paris, France
Deadline for project proposal submissions 8 April (this Friday)
Submissions are encouraged from the public and private sector. Example hacking topics include standardised workflows, containerisation, schemas and identifiers, ontology tooling, metadata validation and training.
Find out more and submit
ELIXIR AAI migrates to Life Science Login
A week today, on 11 April 2022, the ELIXIR Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure (AAI) service will become Life Science Login.
The ELIXIR AAI has been integrated with services provided by 12 other life science research infrastructures to produce a comprehensive and extended AAI.
Find out more
NIH-hosted Data sharing and Reuse seminars
Recording now available
Listen to Carole Goble and Frederik Coppens talk about RDMkit, a research data management toolkit built by the community for the community.
For information on the seminar series and other data science events, check out the latest NIH data science newsletter
Recommended reads
Managing the life cycle of a portfolio of open data resources at the SIB
An ELIXIR-CH paper
The SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics provides the life science community with a portfolio of openly accessible, high-quality databases and software platforms. This review presents the ecosystem of data resources at SIB, the process used for the identification, evaluation and development of resources, and the support activities that SIB provides. A set of indicators has been put in place to select the resources and establish quality standards, reflecting their multifaceted nature and complexity. We explain how SIB's leading tools and databases are fostered by the institute, leading to best-in-class resources to tackle pressing societal issues from disease outbreaks and cancer to biodiversity and open science.
Read more
A Micro-CT image gallery to show the effects of ocean warming and acidification on marine gastropod shells
An ELIXIR-GR paper
Digitisation of specimens (e.g. zoological, botanical) can provide access to advanced morphological and anatomical information and promote new research opportunities. Micro-CT technology supports the development of virtual museums and laboratories to share 3D imaging data. There is currently a lack of universal standards for publication and curation of micro-CT datasets. We created a virtual gallery of the marine gastropod Hexaplextrunculus under increased temperature and low pH conditions simulating future climate change scenarios. The images were annotated with detailed metadata and are interactively displayed and manipulated with online tools using the principles of FAIR data.
Read more
Updates from Nodes
Save the date: 7th Health-RI conference
6 October 2022 | Utrecht, Netherlands
The 2022 conference promises to be an exciting and thought-provoking day with interesting speakers, interactive sessions and updates on Health-RI activities.
There will be ample opportunity to meet colleagues from academia, healthcare, industry, funding organizations and patient advocacy groups.
Find out more
Discover the SIB Remarkable Outputs 2021
The annual shortlist of achievements from some of the 800 scientists at the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics includes publications, datasets, software and outreach projects.
Find out more
Updates from Communities
Final reminder: white paper feedback
Emerging ELIXIR Single Cell Omics Community white paper draft
Emerging ELIXIR Systems Biology Community white paper draft
Please add your comments to the PDF or send to Katharina Heil Deadline: 7 April (this Thursday)
Updates from other initiatives
2022 Bioinformatics Education Summit
Save the date : 9-11 May | Over 2 time zones | Virtual
Join bioinformatics education experts from all over the world for 3 days to tackle issues in bioinformatics education/training. This a working meeting where you are expected to actively participate in discussion and writing. Participation is free, registration details to follow.
Read about last year's event
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
Applied statistics: data analysis in practice
5-6 April 2022 | Lausanne, Switzerland
First steps with R
5-7 April 2022 (half days) | Virtual | Limited spaces
Galaxy introduction for life scientists
27 April 2022 | Lausanne, Switzerland
Metabolomics and integrative omics: from data production to analysis
28-29 April 2022 | Bari, Italy
Gentle hands-on introduction to Python programming
4,11,18 May 2022 | Virtual
Nordic train-the-trainer course
10-13 May 2022 (half days)| Virtual | Deadline to apply: 3 April
10th RepeatExplorer workshop on the application of NGS to repetitive DNA
24-26 May 2022 | esk Budjovice, Czech Republic
3rd hands-on computational enzyme design workshop
30 May - 1 June 2022 | Virtual
Functional exploration of genetic variants in cardiac diseases
14-15 June | Lyon, France | Apply by 1 May
Summer school on genetic epidemiology
29 June - 2 July 2022 | Davos, Switzerland
ELIXIR Events and Conferences
Tools Platform meeting
4-6 April 2022 | Hybrid - Brussels, Belgium
Compute Platform meeting
25-26 April 2022| Hotel Berlin, Berlin
Emerging systems biology Community meeting
12-13 April 2022 | Hybrid - Amsterdam, Netherlands | 12:00-14:00 CET
FAIRplus Innovation and SME forum 2022
17 May 2022 | Hybrid - Berlin, Germany
ELIXIR All Hands meeting 2022
7-10 June 2022 | Amsterdam, Netherlands
BioHackathon Europe
7-11 November 2022 | Paris, France
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
Program Manager - Life Science Alliance
European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
External Relations Officer
ELIXIR Hub
Science / Technical Officer - Life Science Communities & Open Science
Elixir
Bioinformatics Data Analyst (RE1)
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)
Postdoctoral bioinformatics position at the Interuniversity institute of Bioinformatics in Brussels
Universite Libre de Bruxelles and the Interuniversity institute of Bioinformatics in Brussels