Please join us for the All Hands group photo TODAY!
7 June | 14:00 CEST
Make sure to stick around after Doreen Ware's keynote talk to ensure you're included in the All Hands 2021 group photo! Please wear your All Hands t-shirt for the authentic group photo experience :)
We're hiring at the hub!
We have two open positions at the ELIXIR Hub, please share within your networks.
- Web developer (closes 16 June)
- Project Manager/Senior Project Coordinator (closes 18 June)
ELIXIR Webinar: Discovering the latest EGA features. Quality control and data submission portal
16 June 2021 | 14:00 CEST
Join the upcoming ELIXIR webinar to discover the latest features of the EGA: quality control portal and the new submitter portal.
You will learn how to submit data to the EGA directly from the experts at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG).
Register today
Five years of ELIXIR featured in the F1000R Blog
Please take a look at the F1000 blog 'The best of the ELIXIR Gateway: 5 years and counting' which highlights some of the most popular papers from our Gateway. If you're interested in publishing scientific articles, posters or slides here (we will pay any charges) then please do get in touch for more information!
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Recommended reads of the week
The DisGeNET cytoscape app: Exploring and visualizing disease genomics data
An ELIXIR RIR and ELIXIR Spain paper
The DisGeNET Cytoscape App combines the capabilities of Cytoscape with those of DisGeNET, a knowledge platform based on a comprehensive catalogue of disease-associated genes and variants. The DisGeNET Cytoscape App contains functions to query, analyze, and visualize different network representations of the gene-disease and variant-disease associations available in DisGeNET.
Ten simple rules to make your publication look better
An ELIXIR Netherlands, Computational Biology paper
Different journals have different preferences and style guides, but there are several items that all of them share. The intention of this Ten Simple Rules paper is to provide general guidelines to produce a scientific publication in good form, using computational biology for examples. Rules 1 to 3 cover layout strategies, 4 to 6 nomenclature and terminology, rule 7 is about supplementary data and code, and rules 8 to 10 deal with error prevention and acceptance.
Continue reading... Updates from Communities
Galaxy Europes Training Infrastructure as a Service (TIaaS) goes down under
The TIaaS has expanded to Australia. TIaaS at UseGalaxy.eu has provided free infrastructure to teach bioinformatics to 7k students to date, and Australias more recently deployed system has supported 1.5k students learning bioinformatics.
See the stats
New Galaxy Training 'slides to video' feature
The Galaxy Training Network has a new feature: automatic Videos from Slide decks. For contributors who write good speaker notes, weve built a system to automatically turn those into videos for learners who prefer that format.
Learn more
Last chance for Early Bird registration for the Galaxy Community Conference!
Early bird-registration is closing on tomorrow 8 June, get in quick to save 50% on registration fees!
Register here
Updates from Nodes
Women in Data Science: Perspectives from academia and industry
18 June | 15:00-17:30 CEST | Virtual
Join a wonderful host of speakers (one being our very own ELIXIR Industry Officer, Katharina Lauer) at this event co-organised by Bayer and de.NBI.
Event details and registration
Knowledge translation to the agricultural technology industry
21 - 22 June | 15:30 CEST
An ELIXIR Knowledge Exchange Scheme workshop
This workshop will divulge the outcomes of two ELIXIR-PT projects being held with industrial partners from the agritech sector, The Navigator Company and PHENOSPEX, showcasing key resources developed by ELIXIR towards FAIR plant data publication and management (e.g. BrAPI).
Event details and registration
Updates from other initiatives
On-line training on GA4GH Passports
23 June | 13:00 CEST
Register by 16 June!
The target audience of the training is developers and administrators of services that want to make use of GA4GH Passports to authenticate a user and authorise them to call an API. The training consists of one hour of presentations, followed by a hands-on exercise with a Virtual Machine.
Event details and registration
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
ELIXIR CZ Friday Coffee: IRESs, IRESite and HCVIVdb
11 June | 09:30-10:30 CEST | Virtual
Women in data science: perspectives from academia and industry
18 June | 15:00-17:30 CEST | Virtual
Knowledge translation to the agricultural technology industry
21 - 22 June | 15:30 CEST | Virtual
ELIXIR-LU: Reproducible analysis workflows with Snakemake and Conda
14 - 16 July | Virtual
ELIXIR Events and Conferences
ELIXIR Webinar: Discovering the latest EGA features. Quality control and data submission portal
16 June 2021 | 14:00 CEST
ELIXIR Bioinformatics Industry Forum: Using open software tools and AI to improve bioimaging
23 June 2021 | 16:30-18:30 CEST | Virtual
ELIXIR Webinar: BRENDA: the comprehensive enzyme information system
1 July 2021 | 16:00 CEST
Innovation and SME Forum: Building the learning ecosystem of health: from data tracking to preventive medicine
13 September 2021 | At the [BC]2 Conference, Basel, Switzerland
(virtual participation also available)
Job vacancies
Web Developer - Cambridgeshire, Visa provided
ELIXIR Hub
ELIXIR Project Manager/ Senior Project Coordinator
ELIXIR
Data Manager - Data Services and Infrastructure Support
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS)