Weekly Brief, 6 May 2024

This week's highlights

Reminder! Open Calls in the Science Tier

Deadline: midnight 10 May 2024

All details can be found on the ELIXIR intranet under Open Calls.
For applicants facing difficulties in preparation of the proposal e.g. complying with set criteria, or for any questions regarding the Open Call, please contact the Hub at proposals@elixir-europe.org

Capacity Building and Knowledge Exchange is live on ELIXIR website

The webpage provides information on participating in a Staff Exchange, Knowledge Exchange, Industry Day or Travel Grant.

For any questions, please contact Kelly Tunstall

New starters at the Hub

• Monica Abrudan joined as Senior Science Officer in the Technical Team to support EOSC-ENTRUST and EVERSE projects.
• Maria Tyler joined the Project Management Team as a Senior Project Manager to look after EOSC-ENTRUST and BY-COVID projects.
• Yaseen Jakhura joined the Project Management Team as a Technical Project Officer supporting GDI and ELIXIR-STEERS.

Recommended reads

Results of the Beyond 1 Million Genomes (B1MG) pilot in Belgium towards Genomic Data Infrastructure (GDI)

A B1MG | GDI paper

Genomic medicine has great potential to offer insights into how humans' genetic variation can affect their health, prevention options and treatment responses. The B1MG project kicked off in 2020 to build a federated network of genomic data in Europe, in which Belgium took part as a piloting country. B1MG developed a framework to enable all interested countries to self-evaluate the level of maturity of national genomic medicine practices following a common matrix, called Maturity Level Model, that contained 49 indicators across eight domains. This paper presents the qualitative and quantitative outcomes of B1MG MLM assessment in Belgium and discusses their relevance to GDI.

Read more

Toward a common standard for data and specimen provenance in life sciences

An EOSC-Life | EJP-RD paper

Open and practical exchange, dissemination, and reuse of specimens and data have become a fundamental requirement for life sciences research. A comprehensive and precise documentation of the preanalytical conditions, the analytical procedures, and the data processing are essential to be able to assess the validity of the research results. The collection and sharing of biological and environmental specimens require definition and documentation of benefit sharing and compliance to regulatory requirements. This publication presents an ongoing standardisation effort to provide trustworthy machineactionable documentation of the data lineage and specimens.

Read more

Updates from Platforms

Google Summer of Code 2024 Contributors announced

Six of seven nominated ELIXIR Cloud-related projects will be funded through 2024 Google Summer of Code programme. The projects will start coding on 27 May and will last until the end of August under the supervision of 15 mentors from the ELIXIR Cloud family utilising the ELIXIR Cloud slack board.

Find out more

Updates from Focus Groups

Low-impact travel suggestions to ELIXIR All Hands and ECCB 2024

Train or ferry to Uppsala and Turku

The Environmental Impact Focus Group researched the options, and compiled
concrete travel itinerary suggestions for a low-carbon trip to the All Hands in
Uppsala and the ECCB in Turku.

Link to the document

Updates from other initiatives

Bigpicture community meeting

16 May 2024 | 15:00 - 16:00 CEST | Online

Bigpicture is organising its first public community meeting. This meeting is aimed at engaging potential contributors and users of Bigpicture data and AI models outside the current consortium.

More information and registration

Health Data Ethics & Regulatory Frameworks in Rare Disease Research

EJP RDs third Massive Open Online Courses focuses on health data ethics and regulatory frameworks in rare disease research. The course is developed by Foundation For Rare Diseases, EURORDIS, ERN EpiCARE and Gianni Benzi Foundation to provide valuable insights and knowledge expansion.

More information

Erasmus Medical Center gets 20 million funding to lead the Genome of Europe project

Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam is set to lead a European genomic research project, the Genome of Europe. The project brings together 200 researchers from 51 institutes across 29 countries to analyse the genomes of 100,000 Europeans by 2028, laying the groundwork for advancements in disease prevention, diagnosis, and personalised healthcare.

Read more

FAIRDOM user meeting

5 June 2024 | 14:00 - 16:00 CEST | Online

The FAIRDOM user meeting will focus on data management in practice with FAIRDOM-SEEK.

More information and registration

The second edition of the PROPHET project newsletter

PROPHET has released its second project newsletter featuring the activities and updates of the project after a year and a half of work.

Read the newsletter

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

ELIXIR IDP Community meeting
13 May 2024 | 10:00 - 18:00 CEST | Thessaloniki, Greece

ELIXIR All Hands 2024
10-12 June 2024 | Uppsala, Sweden

ECCB 2024
16-20 September 2024 | Turku, Finland

BioHackathon Europe 2024
4 - 8 November 2024 | 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
 

Biocurator / Senior Biocurator

Cardiff University

Senior Research Community Manager, People in Data

Alan Turing Institute

: System administrator of Linux systems with experience in databases and virtualization clusters

UPF

Data Scientist

UPF

ELIXIR Science Officer

ELIXIR Hub