Weekly Brief, 7 June 2021

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.

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.

Continue reading...

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

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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)