Weekly Brief, 6 December 2021

This week's highlights

Wednesday is your last chance to submit your workshop abstracts for ELIXIR All Hands

Submission deadline 8 December
7 - 10 June 2022 | Amsterdam, Netherlands

If you intend to run a workshop at the ELIXIR All Hands meeting in June next year then make sure you have submitted your abstract by this Wednesday, 8 December. Workshops will take place on 7 and 9 June 2022.

Full details and link to submission

ELIXIR-CONVERGE workshop:
Lessons learned from organising and hosting a hybrid conference

8 December 2021 | 14:00 CET
In September 2021, the SIB held their bi-annual Basel Computational Biology Conference, [BC]2, together with an ELIXIR Innovation and SME Forum. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, they used a hybrid approach. Come along to find out about their experience and tips for hosting hybrid events.
Find out more and register

Join the 4th webinar in the 3D Bioinfo Community webinar series

14 December 2021 | 15:00 CET
Join the ELIXIR 3D-Bioinfo Community to explore the theme of 'Nucleic Acid Tools: Progress and further plans':

  • Marta Szachniuk, Interlaces and lassos in 3D RNA models'
  • Chichau Miao, RNA Puzzles on the path to improve
    reliability of RNA structure predictions
  • Ji ern, New tools available to annotate and validate nucleic acids at DNATCO

Find out more and register

Recommended reads

Implementing FAIR data management within the German Network for Bioinformatics Infrastructure (de.NBI) exemplified by selected use cases

An ELIXIR Germany paper

This article describes some use case studies and self-assessments of FAIR status of de.NBI services to illustrate the challenges and requirements for the definition of the needs of adhering to the FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable) data principles in a large distributed bioinformatics infrastructure.

Read more...

IUPred3: prediction of protein disorder enhanced with unambiguous experimental annotation and visualization of evolutionary conservation

An ELIXIR Hungary and Implementation Study paper

Intrinsically disordered proteins and protein regions (IDPs/IDRs) exist without a single well-defined conformation. Computational methods play important roles in the characterization of IDRs. One of the commonly used disorder prediction methods is IUPred, which relies on an energy estimation approach. In this new iteration of IUPred, we added multiple novel features to enhance the prediction capabilities of the server.

Read more...

Updates from Platforms

Calling all GA4GH passport users!

15 December 2021 | 10:00 CEST

If you are working with human data communities or ELIXIR AAI services that rely (or want to!) on GA4GH passports, join the engagement call with the ELIXIR AAI team to exchange thoughts, requirements and ideas for future development. All are welcome to join.

Find out more

Do you deliver training on single-cell analysis? Check out the recordings from the GOBLET-ELIXIR training workshop

Presentations from the GOBLET-ELIXIR workshop for single cell RNA-seq data analysis trainers are now available as a playlist on YouTube.

Find out more about the workshop and watch on YouTube

Updates from Nodes

Join the next Data Stewards Interest Group (DTL DSIG) meeting!

9 December 2021 | 09:30-11:15 CET

Cees Hof and Ricarda Braukmann from DANS will be sharing their expertise on data stewardship training, sketching both the Dutch and the EU landscape, and they will lead a discussion on training materials and needs. Everybody is welcome to join.
Find out more and register

Find out more about Health-RI

Health-RI is the Dutch non-profit foundation supporting a public private-partnership of organisations that want to realise a national health-data infrastructure. Healthcare data is collected in a multitude of different settings. What remains crucial is that this healthcare data is collected and stored in a way that can be easily be used for research and innovation. Our healthcare data infrastructure is an infrastructure for the future where health data can be re-used for research and innovation.

Watch the video below, or visit the Health-RI website to find out more

An introductory video to Health-RI

ELIXIR-CONVERGE funded SIB workshop on 'Research Data Management and Data Management plan'

27-28 January | Lausanne, Switzerland

This one and a half day course, given by researchers and professionals involved in Big Data management at SIB/Vital-IT as well as in Data Management Plan preparation at UNIL/CHUV, will provide effective support to produce high quality DMP complying with the guidelines established by funding agencies. Importantly, it will provide tools to generate robust data and excellent quality studies that are reproducible and reusable.

Find out more and register

Updates from other initiatives

Apply for funding in Euro Bioimaging's first open call for projects

Deadline 15 December

Send in a proposal by December 15, 2021 to carry out a biological or biomedical imaging project at one of our 33 Nodes, and receive up to 5.000 Euros to cover access, consumables, travel and accommodation costs. Successful applicants will be notified by late January 2022 and projects should start before July 2022. All academic scientists are eligible! Remote projects will also be considered.

Find out more and apply or share the call on twitter

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. For more, visit TeSS portal

PerMedCoe Webinar series: Biomedicine, supercomputers and simulations: in silicon experiments and its applications in cancer research

14 December 2021 | 15:00 CET

ELIXIR-CH: Immunoinformatics

25-26 January 2022 | Muttenz, Switzerland

ELIXIR Events and Conferences

 

ELIXIR-CONVERGE workshop series: Lessons learned from organising and hosting a hybrid conference

8 December 2021 | 14:00 CET | Virtual

3D-Bioinfo Webinar: Nucleic acid tools: progress and further plans

14 December 2021 | 15:00 CET

ELIXIR-CONVERGE SIB workshop: Research Data Management and Data Management Plan

27-28 January 2022 | Lausanne, Switzerland
ELIXIR All Hands meeting 2022

7-10 June 2022 | Amsterdam, Netherlands

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

Postdoc positions in biocatalysis at DTU Biosustain

DTU Biosustain

Two positions in image processing for Cryo-Electron Microscopy

National Center of Biotechnology (CNB-CSIC), part of INB/ELIXIR-ES

Postdoc in Machine Learning for Spatial Multi-omics of Glioblastoma

German Cancer Research Institute (DKFZ)

Postdoc multidimensional integration of high throughput sequencing data

Albert-Ludwigs-Universitt Freiburg

Senior expert at data science excellence center in medical imaging

CMIV/AIDA/NBIS/BIGPICTURE