Weekly Brief, 7 September 2020

ELIXIR Webinar | Reproducibility in Systems Biology Modelling Sometimes

11 September 2020 | 3 pm CEST

Henning Hermjakob | Team Leader Molecular Networks, EMBL-EBI

'In the context of BioModels, we have systematically attempted to reproduce 455 kinetic models of biological processes published in peer-reviewed research articles from 152 journals. About half (49%) of the models could not be reproduced using the information provided in the published manuscripts. With further effort, an additional 12% of the models could be reproduced either by empirical correction or support from authors. We will describe the study and discuss suggestions for improvement at individual and community level.'

We endorse the manifesto for EU COVID-19 Research

'The manifesto seeks the voluntary support and endorsement from public and private stakeholders benefitting from EU funding, other research funders and prominent individuals and institutions to maximise the accessibility of research results in the fight against COVID-19.'
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New starter at ELIXIR Hub

Ellie Taverner | Project Support Administrator

ellie.taverner@elixir-europe.org

Ellie is starting today at ELIXIR in the Project Management Unit team as Project Support Administrator.

She has a background in medical communications and marketing, where she worked for two and a half years. Prior to this, Ellie studied Biological Sciences at the University of East Anglia.

Tip of the week

Did you know ELIXIR has an Ethical, Legal and Social Issues (ELSI) policy?

Updates from Nodes

ELIXIR-GR | Changes in leadership

Dr Martin Reczko and Dr Christoforos Nikolaou

As of 1 September 2020, Dr Martin Reczko has been acting Head of Node of ELIXIR Greece, taking over from Prof Babis Savakis and Dr Christoforos Nikolaou has been appointed Deputy Head of Node.

We thank Babis for his contributions to ELIXIR over the years and wish him all the best for the future! We look forward to a fruitful collaboration with Martin and Christoforos.

ELIXIR NL helps institutions write a grant proposal to establish local Digital Competence Centres

A non-competitive call from The Dutch Research Council (NWO) aims to stimulate the developments of Digital Competence Centres. Among others, Health-RI and ELIXIR-NL are helping institutions to write the grant proposal to develop an existing centralised DCC further or to set up one within the institution.
Find out more about the call

Relevant Meeting | DTL Data Stewards Interest Group

15 September 2020 | 34.30 pm CEST, Online

The meeting will collect the 2021 calendar topics of the (Dutch) Data Stewardship Community
The group will also have Abigail Goben and Heather Coates, from the University of Illinois and the Indiana University-Purdue University, to present the outcomes of their recent article on foundational practices of research data management.
Register now

Health-RI and GO FAIR help ZonMw's COVID-19 projects to create FAIR data

As a result of Health-RI and GO FAIR contributions, data have become findable through computer search, and accessible for learning-algorithms (comparable to the Personal Health Train concept).
Read more about the outcomes

Updates from Platforms

If you are developing software, we want your feedback!

Fill in a 10-minutes form

The Software Best Practices group is following up on the webinar on the Development of an ELIXIR Software Management Plan (SMP). If you are involved in developing software, please fill in the SMP useability form before 25 September 2020
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Online event | ELIXIR Training Platform resources & services for Communities

9 September 2020 | 12:00 CEST

If you are an ELIXIR Community member and you want to develop training courses and materials, this online event is for you. You can discover how you can benefit from the Training Platform services and contribute to them too. The presenters will also cover impact metrics and raining optimisation strategies.

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

Bioinformatics for LipidomicsWorkshop

1 October 2020 | Online

Best practices in research data management and stewardship

58 October | Online

Data visualization using R

7 December 2020 | Online

ELIXIR Events and Conferences

European Research and Innovation Days

2224 September 2020 | Online

Niklas Blomberg will introduce ELIXIR's work with a specific emphasis on health data and COVID-19. Join the panel discussion on 23 September, 'HUB 3 Digitalisation' at 10.30 am CEST.

ELIXIR's Virtual BioHackathon-Europe

913 November 2020 | Now Online

Registration deadline: 18 September 2020

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

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