Register now for BioHackathon Europe 2021!
8-12 November 2021 | Hybrid Meeting Barcelona, Spain
Join us in Barcelona for this year's BioHackathon Europe at the beautiful La Mola Chteauform Campus.
We have 37 exciting projects (four running virtually) with diverse applications from genome graphs to gallantries, and MATLAB to MIAPPE, and including four industry projects.
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ELIXIR in 2020: a story of collaboration, innovation and preparedness
Annual Report 2020
Detailing the scientific developments achieved in unprecedented times, we release our 2020 Annual Report. This time it showcases the impact of our activities in various areas, including COVID-19, thanks to our community of experts and trusted relationships with key stakeholders and funding bodies.
Get your digital copy or read it online
What you may have missed in June
Were you on holiday, busy attending conferences and meetings or snowed under with work? We've got you covered. This is what happened in June:
- ELIXIR Bioinformatics Industry Forum: Using open software tools and AI to improve bioimaging
- Webinar: Discovering the latest EGA features
- Webinar: FAIR Infrastructure for protein structural and functional annotations
- Webinar: BRENDA The comprehensive enzyme information system
- News: ELIXIR funds seven new life science data projects
Recommended reads of the week
Next generation sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 genomes: challenges, applications and opportunities
An ELIXIR Italy paper
'In the current review, we will provide a brief, but hopefully comprehensive, account of currently available platforms and methodological approaches for the sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 genomes. We also present an outline of current repositories and databases that provide access to SARS-CoV-2 genomic data and associated metadata. Finally, we offer general advice and guidelines for the appropriate sharing and deposition of SARS-CoV-2 data and metadata.'
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Peryton: a manual collection of experimentally supported microbe-disease associations
An ELIXIR Greece paper
'We present Peryton, a database of experimentally supported microbe-disease associations. Its first version constitutes a novel resource hosting more than 7900 entries linking 43 diseases with 1396 microorganisms. Peryton's content is exclusively sustained by manual curation of biomedical articles.'
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Updates from other initiatives
ESFRI publishes its 2021 roadmap
The roadmap includes ESFRI projects such as E-Brains, covering neuroscience (formerly Human Brain Project) and EIRENE RI, which will cover the environmental determinants of health. EuPRAXIA, a plasma accelerator, is also featured for its application in medical imaging.
Read more
Upcoming ELIXIR events and webinars
ELIXIR training courses and 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-ES EMBO practical course | Research to service: Planning and running a bioinformatics core facility
4-8 October 2021 | Online
Application deadline 9 July!
ELIXIR-SE course | Omics Integration and Systems Biology
6-10 September 2021 | Online
Application deadline 9 August
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)
UK Conference of bioinformatics and computational biology 2021
28-30 September 2021 | Virtual
You can also submit an abstract for a poster or short talk
BioHackathon Europe 2021
8-12 November 2021 | Hybrid Barcelona, Spain
Registration now open!
Job vacancies
Research Data Steward
RUB - SFB1280
1-2 System developer with operational responsibility
Uppsala University
Postdoctoral researcher - Phylogenomics (R2)
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS)
PhD student - Phylogenomics (R1)
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS)
Data Manager (80%-100%)
SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics