Weekly Brief, 5 June 2023

This week's highlights

ELIXIR All Hands event kick-off!

We hope that you're all excited to delve into the ELIXIR All Hands 2023! With over 300 people registered and a huge diversity of workshops and mini-symposia, we're sure it's going to be a fantastic event.
Please use #ELIXIR23 when sharing the event on social media, we look forward to seeing you in Dublin!

All Hands 2023 website

Interview article at the Festival of Genomics and Biodata

In January 2023, Serena Scollen, ELIXIR Head of Human Genomics and Translational Data, gave a talk at the Festival of Genomics and Biodata. Serena also did an interview detailing ELIXIRs work on human genomics and involvement in EU projects.

Read the article

Recommended reads

FAIR in action - a flexible framework to guide FAIRification

A FAIRplus project paper

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for FAIR data more than other scientific challenge to date. The authors developed a FAIRification framework, providing practical guidance to improve the FAIRness for both existing and future clinical and molecular datasets. The authors validated the framework in collaboration with several major public-private partnership projects, demonstrating and delivering improvements across all aspects of FAIR and across a variety of datasets and their contexts.

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EOSC Future: Design and implementation of community engagement through Science Projects

An EOSC Future preprint

The Special Collection of articles on the Science Projects of the EOSC Future project, funded by the European Commission, refers to one of the essential components of the project. This editorial article explains how the Science Projects fit to the EOSC Future, the way their concept has been developed and evolved during the preparation and the implementation of the project and it also makes an introduction to the templates developed by the Science Projects as a plan to carry out their activities.

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Updates from Nodes

Legal perspectives on Open Research Data in a biomedical context

Open Research Data is widely considered as a core principle contributing to common knowledge, it raises complex legal issues in the field of sensitive and non-sensitive data alike. A paper published by SIBs legal experts offers a map of the applicable legal rules in this field in Switzerland.

Read the news

Updates from Communities

3D-BioInfo webinar: Protein Design and Evolution

20 June 2023 | 17:00 - 18:00 | Online

ELIXIR 3D-BioInfo Community is holding a webinar focusing on Protein Design and Evolution. Join the webinar to learn more about research in protein design and evolution from the speakers.

More information and registration

Register for the IDP Community F2F/hybrid Meeting

3-4 July 2023 | Hybrid - Bratislava, Slovakia
Registration deadline: 8 June (in person) | 04 July (online)

The IDP Community F2F/hybrid Meeting aims to unite experimentalists and method developers to discuss challenges and define joint opportunities in the field. A part of the meeting will be dedicated to the 2024-2028 Scientific Programme and the Community's possible role and activities.

The meeting will be held before the COST Action ML4NG Main Conference (July 4-7)

Find out more and register now

Survey to identify activities relevant for RD research across ELIXIR Nodes, Platforms & Communities

Deadline: 11 June 2023

ELIXIR Rare Disease Community is conducting a survey with the aim to identify existing infrastructures, resources and initiatives from ELIXIR Platforms, Communities and Focus Groups useful for the rare disease community

Fill out the survey

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

ELIXIR Events and Conferences

IDP Community F2F/hybrid Meeting
3-4 July 2023 | Hybrid - Bratislava, Slovakia

BioHackathon Europe 2023
30 October - 3 November 2023 | 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
 

Clinical Data Curator

CRG (via IBEC)

Data Steward with focus on human data management

Uppsala University

Fixed-term technical position: Services based on machine and deep learning methodologies for the analysis of biological sequences and structures

Biocomputing group - University of Bologna

Fixed-term technical position: Interoperability services for biomedical data

Biocomputing group - University of Bologna

Web developers and designers

CRG