Weekly Brief, 7 August 2023

This week's highlights

Did you know?

You can find key communications resources on the ELIXIR Intranet:

• ELIXIR logos and other visuals
• ELIXIR presentations (slide template and poster template)
• Node communications toolkit

ELIXIR panel discussion at BioTechX 2023 congress

4-6 October 2023 | Basel, Switzerland

This October, ELIXIR will host a panel discussion on "Trusted environments for sharing data in life sciences" at BioTechX2023 congress in Basel. The panel discussion will focus on the impact of data-centric research and foster collaboration among different stakeholders.

ELIXIR members are welcome to join us by using the available ELIXIR discount passes. To get your discount code, please email despoina.sousoni [at] elixir-europe.org (ELIXIR Industry Officer - Despoina Souosoni)

More information

Recommended reads

FAIR for AI: An interdisciplinary and international community building perspective

A FAIR-related article

A foundational set of findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR) principles was proposed as prerequisites for proper data management and stewardship, with the goal of enabling the reusability of scholarly data. FAIR principles are now being adapted in the context of AI models and datasets. Here, the authors present the perspectives, vision, and experiences of researchers from different countries, disciplines, and backgrounds who are leading the definition and adoption of FAIR principles in their communities of practice, and discuss outcomes that may result from pursuing and incentivizing FAIR AI research.

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Nightingale: web components for protein feature visualization

A BioHackathon paper

The visualization of biological data is a fundamental technique that enables researchers to understand and explain biology. Some of these visualizations have become iconic, for instance: tree views for taxonomy, cartoon rendering of 3D protein structures or tracks to represent features in a gene or protein, for instance in a genome browser. Nightingale is a library of re-usable data visualization web components that are currently used by UniProt and InterPro, among other projects. The components can be used to display protein sequence features, variants, interaction data, 3D structure, etc.


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Updates from Nodes

ELIXIR Belgium: Your data, Our services, European success

23-24 October 2023 | Gent, Belgium

This year's ELIXIR-Belgium national meeting will showcase the variety of services with scientists illustrating how the services facilitate their research. The connection with existing European initiatives, both in ELIXIR and other research infrastructures, will also be demonstrated.

More information and registration

Updates from Communities

Provide your feedback on the emerging Microbiome Community White Paper

Deadline: 11 August 2023

The emerging ELIXR Microbiome Community is presenting its White Paper draft for consultation and feedback. Please add your comments directly to the pdf document or send to clare.garrard [at] elixir-europe.org (Clare Garrard)

Read the white paper draft

Register for the 3D BioInfo Community meeting

15 - 17 November 2023 | Hybrid - Prague, Czech Republic
Registration deadline: 17 August (in person) | online registration will open closer in time

The 3D BioInfo Community will hold its F2F/hybrid Meeting in November. The meeting is a part of a larger event, coordinate jointly by the ELIXIR 3D BioInfo Community together with the 3D-SIG Structural Bioinformatics Community of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB).

There will be time for updates, presentations, progress reports, posters and discussions.

More information & Register now

Updates from other initatives

RDA/EOSC Future bulletins on impact of open calls

The RDA/EOSC Future team is publishing a series of bulletins on the impact of the open calls programme. The first looks at the outputs of the cross-disciplinary projects and how Research Data Alliance outputs are being tested in the EOSC environment.

More information

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

Emerging Microbiome/Marine Metagenomics Community meeting
12-13 September 2023 | Hybrid - Barcelona, Spain

Biodiversity Community F2F & Implementation Study meeting
13-15 September 2023 | Hybrid - Barcelona, Spain

BioHackathon Europe 2023
30 October - 3 November 2023 | Barcelona, Spain

3D BioInfo Community meeting
15-17 November 2023 | Hybrid - Prague, Czech Republic

Federated human data (FHD) Community meeting
16-17 November 2023 | Hybrid - 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
 

PhD position in "Machine learning tools and Interoperability resources for the management and analysis of biomedical data in the context of the European infrastructure ESFRI ELIXIR"

Biocomputing group - University of Bologna

Auxiliary RESEARCHER (M/F) in the area of Bioinformatics/Data Science

Centro de Ciencias do Mar (CCMAR)

Semantic Web Architect

UK CEH

Auxiliary RESEARCHER (M/F) in the area of Bioinformatics/Data Science

Centro de Ciencias do Mar (CCMAR)

Bioinformatician in Cancer Genomics

Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona)