Weekly Brief, 7 March 2022

This week's highlights

All Hands 2022

7-10 June | Amsterdam, Netherlands

Registration now open!

Join us at All Hands 2022 in the Eye Film Museum in Amsterdam, 7-10 June 2022.

Registration link
Event website

Reminder: Getting started with impact evaluation webinar

This Thursday! 10 March 2022 | 09:00-11:30 CET

Read the programme and register

NIH-hosted Data sharing and Reuse seminar: this month on RDMkit

This Friday! 11 March | 17:00-18:00 CET

Listen to Carole Goble and Frederik Coppens talk about RDMkit, a research data management toolkit built by the community for the community.

Find out more and register

ELIXIR webinar: Data Science at the National Institutes of Health

24 March |15:00 CET

Listen to Ishwar Chandramouliswaran and Susan Gregurick talk about Data Science at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as part of ELIXIRs Webinar Series. Agenda to follow.

Register

Joint Data and Interoperability event report

In November, the Data and Interoperability Platforms held their first joint face-to-face meeting.

Recording now available: Panel discussion Working the International FAIR Landscape featuring Mark Wilkinson, Marco Roos, Patrick Ruch, Carole Goble and Susanna-Assunta Sansone

Read the report and view the recording

First 24 COVID-19 studies from EGA published in European COVID-19 Data Platform

As part of ELIXIR CONVERGE, the first 24 COVID-19 studies from the European Genome-phenome Archive (EGA) have been published in the European COVID-19 Data Platform.

View on the Data Platform

Recommended reads

Applying FAIR principles to hospital data: challenges and opportunities in a pandemic

TeSS, EXCELERATE, RDMkit

The heterogeneous information systems in hospitals can result in fragmentation of data over multiple data silos with clinical observations not able to be reused efficiently. Research data management in hospitals needs to make COVID-19 observational patient data more Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) for humans and machines. Our work demonstrates that a FAIR research data management plan based on ontological models for data and metadata, open Science, Semantic Web technologies and FAIR Data Points is providing data infrastructure in the hospital for machine actionable FAIR digital objects.

Read more

Towards a metagenomics machine learning interpretable model for colorectal cancer

An ELIXIR-ES paper

We performed a meta-analysis of 1042 fecal metagenomic samples from seven publicly available studies. We used an interpretable machine learning approach based on functional profiles, instead of the conventional taxonomic profiles, to produce a highly accurate predictor of colorectal cancer with better precision than those of previous proposals. Functional profiles have demonstrated superior accuracy in predicting colorectal cancer and adenoma conditions than taxonomic profiles and additionally and provide useful hints on the molecular mechanisms operating in the microbiota behind these conditions.

Read more

Updates from Platforms

Launch of National Resources section on RDMkit website

The National Resources page is a portal to data management services and resources specific to each country. Node leaders of the Data Management Working Group and their collaborators are responsible for content.

Belgium, Germany, Estonia, Finland, Spain, France, Norway, Portugal, Sweden and the UK are currently represented, contributions from other ELIXIR Nodes are encouraged.

For contributions/discussions contact the RDMkit editorial team

Browse the National Resources

Updates from Communities

Reminder: white paper feedback requested!

Emerging ELIXIR Single Cell Omics Community white paper draft
Emerging ELIXIR Systems Biology Community white paper draft

Please add your comments to the PDF or send to Katharina Heil Deadline: Thursday 7 April

Updates from Focus Groups

Call for 3 co-leads of the Biodiversity Focus Group

Deadline: March 31 2022

The Biodiversity Focus Group is entering a new phase of work and requires three co-leads.

To be considered, candidates should self-nominate, submitting a short statement including their background and what they bring to the role.

To find out more or submit a self-nomination, contact Katharina Heil

Join the Biodiversity Focus Group mailing list
Join the Biodiversity Focus Group ELIXIR Europe Slack channel

Biocuration Focus Group - appeal for manually curated data resources

Do you know of any manually curated database in ELIXIR relying on the work of biocurators?

If so, we would be very grateful if you could add to this spreadsheet or contact Federica Quaglia

Join the Biocuration Focus Group mailing list

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

Getting started with impact evaluation

10 March 2022 | 09:00-11.30 CET

ELIXIR webinar: Data Science at the NIH
24 March 2022 |15:00 CET

Applied statistics: data analysis in practice

5-6 April 2022 | Lausanne, Switzerland

Galaxy introduction for life scientists

27 April 2022 | Lausanne, Switzerland

Nordic Train-the-Trainer course

10-13 May 2022 (half days)| Virtual | Deadline to apply: 3 April

Summer school on genetic epidemiology

29 June - 2 July 2022 | Davos, Switzerland

ELIXIR Events and Conferences

Training Platform meeting

16-18 March 2022 | Hybrid - Brussels, Belgium

Data Access, Movement and Management Workshop

31 March 2022 | Remote | 09.30 - 12.30 CET

Tools Platform meeting

4-6 April 2022 | Hybrid - Brussels, Belgium

FAIRplus Innovation and SME forum 2022
17 May 2022 | Hybrid - Berlin, Germany

ELIXIR All Hands meeting 2022

7-10 June 2022 | Amsterdam, Netherlands
BioHackathon Europe

7-11 November 2022 | Paris, France

Job vacancies

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