ELIXIR-CONVERGE launches the RDMkit
The Research Data Management kit (RDMkit) is an online guide containing good data management practices applicable to research projects from the beginning to the end. Developed and managed by people who work every day with life science data, the RDMkit offers guidelines, information and pointers, organised in many different ways, to help you with problems throughout the datas life cycle.
The RDMkit is aiming to make research data management easier for its users but is also looking for officially-recognised contributors to this community-driven effort.
Find out more
Submit an abstract for our ecosystem of health SME Forum
What are the missing pieces of the puzzle to develop knowledge and preventive medicine? We're looking for abstracts on:
- Health data collection technologies (hardware and software) focusing on healthy citizens and/or patients in the post-treatment phase
- Data management
- Research or data integration and analysis
- Converting learnings into healthcare guidelines/policies.
Abstract submission deadline is 16 April and the event will run 13 - 15 September 2021.
Event information and abstract submission
We're hiring at the Hub
ELIXIR Training Coordinator
Deadline 20 April
Read more and apply
Recommended reads of the week
Atypical Divergence of SARS-CoV-2 Orf8 from Orf7a within the Coronavirus Lineage Suggests Potential Stealthy Viral Strategies in Immune Evasion
An ELIXIR Greece publication
Orf8, one of the most puzzling genes in the SARS lineage of corona- viruses, marks a unique and striking difference in genome organization between SARS-CoV-2 and SARS-CoV-1. Here, using sequence comparisons, we unequivocally reveal the distant sequence similarities between SARS-CoV-2 Orf8 with its SARS-CoV-1 counterparts.
Continue reading...
The need for standardisation in life science research - an
approach to excellence and trust
The CHARME consortium, funded by the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Agency, has identified needs and gaps in the field of standardisation in the life sciences and also discussed potential hurdles for implementation of standards in current practice. Here, the authors suggest four measures in response to current challenges to ensure a high quality of life science research data and their re-usability for research and innovation.
Updates from Nodes
SIB launches a Swiss SARS-CoV-2 Data Hub
The Swiss Pathogen Surveillance Platform (SPSP), co-led by SIB, is now supported by the Swiss Federal authorities to act as the Swiss SARS-CoV-2 Data Hub. Initially developed to track the emergence and spread of any pathogens in Switzerland, SPSP has developed into a user-friendly platform to collect viral genome sequences produced from Swiss samples and submit them to ENA.
Read the news
Call for abstracts for the BioSB 2021 conference
15-16 June 2021
You are invited to submit an abstract to the Dutch Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Conference. The conference will also host a dedicated ELIXIR-NL track.
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Presentations from the Helis FAIR Data Stewardship course
For those who missed the 6 day Helis FAIR Data stewardship course, the organisers have made the presentations available via Xenodo.
Take a look
Register for the Health Data Workshop
ELIXIR UK are inviting anyone working in health data in the UK to register for their health data workshop to discuss ELIXIR and EU health data activities and how these fit with UK health data communities and projects.
Event details and registration
Updates from Platforms
ELIXIR bids a fond farewell to Pascal Kahlem
Thursday 1 April marked Training Platform lead, Pascal Kahlem's, final day at ELIXIR. We thank Pascal for his enthusiasm and service over the years, and wish him all the best for his future endeavours!
We are currently searching for a new ELIXIR Training Coordinator to join us at the hub, so please share the job advertisement in your networks.
Job advert for ELIXIR Training Coordinator
Updates from Communities
Check out the new Galactic Career Center
The Galaxy community is continually searching for new developers, bioinformaticians, system administrators, and researchers. This page lists openings from around the world that use, deploy, enhance and administer Galaxy.
Galactic Career Center
Course: Computational Methods to Study Protein Phase Separation
24-28 May 2021 | Online | Free
Organised by members of the ELIXIR IDP community and ELIXIR Italy as part of the PhasAGE project, this four day course will lead participants through the integrative methodologies required to study phase transitions in vitro and in cells.
Read more and register
Upcoming ELIXIR events and webinars
ELIXIR Training Courses & 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
EOSC-Life: What does a course handbook look like?
9 April 2021 | 11:00 CEST | Online
Towards Professionalising Data stewardship
18 May 2021 | 15:00 CEST | Online
PhasAGE Computational Methods to Study Protein Phase Separation
24-28 May 2021 | Online | Free
ELIXIR Webinar: Genetic Discrimination Observatory
29 April 2021 | 17:00 CEST
ELIXIR Webinar: Towards professionalising data stewardship
18 May 2021 | 15:00 CEST
ELIXIR Events and Conferences
Innovation and SME Forum: Building the learning ecosystem of health: from data tracking to preventive medicine
1315 September 2021 | Online
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
ELIXIR Training Coordinator
ELIXIR
Postdoc in Computational Neuroscience - Priority Program 2041 Computational Connectomics
Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM) at the Jlich Research Center in Germany
Junior Bioinformatics Data Analyst
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS), INB/ELIXIR-ES coordination node
Computational biologist - Antibody discovery
Kymab
Bioinformatician
Cambrium GmbH