Weekly Brief, 8 April 2024

This week's highlights

ELIXIR welcomes two new Communities

Two new Communities have been formed in ELIXIR: Research Data Management (RDM) and Microbiome.

• The RDM Community focuses on implementing FAIR and open science principles.
• The Microbiome Community aims to enhance microbiome research through the promotion of standards for sequence analysis and multi-omics integration.

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Recommended reads

Metadata handling for BioHackathon publications through BioHackrXiv

A BioHackathon preprint

This paper presents the work executed on BioHackrXiv during the international ELIXIRBioHackathon Europe in Paris, France in 2022. BioHackrXiv is a scholarly publication service forBioHackathons and codefests that target biology and the biomedical sciences in the spirit of pre-publishing platforms. Over thirty papers have been published through this system and with the amount of BioHackathons and codefests increasing every year, the authors expect this type of reporting and publishing to continue. The goal was to further improve deployment and take-up of the web service and to set a road map for improving the workflow and explore integration of Europe PMC, OpenCitation and Zenodo services.

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Community-driven governance of FAIRness assessment: an open issue, an open discussion

An EOSC-Life paper

The FAIR Principles cover all types of digital objects, metadata, and infrastructures. However, they focus their narrative on data features that support their reusability. FAIR defines principles, not standards, and therefore they do not propose a mechanism to achieve the behaviours they describe in an attempt to be technology/implementation neutral. Various FAIR assessment metrics and tools have been designed to measure FAIRness. This whitepaper can serve as a starting point to foster an open discussion around FAIRness governance and the mechanism(s) that could be used to implement it, to be trusted, broadly representative, appropriately scoped, and sustainable.

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Updates from Nodes

Call for project proposals for 3rd BioHackathon Germany

Deadline: 1 July 2024

The BioHackathon Germany brings together life scientists from Germany and around the world. The proposal should be under 500 words and should include the project's leads/contact persons, a project draft and how it is aligned to the challenges proposed by de.NBI / ELIXIR Germany and their service centres.

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FAIR-ification of Toxicological Research Output: Leveraging ELIXIR Resources

28 - 29 May 2024 | Utrecht, the Netherlands

It is the first workshop organised by the Toxicology Community in the context of its first Implementation Study called INTOXICOM. The workshop welcomes toxicologists interested in using FAIR data resources or making their data FAIR as well as toxicologists working on or using the concept of AOPs.

More information and registration

Spring School Structure-based Computer-aided Drug Design

10 - 14 June 2024 | Lausanne, Switzerland
Application deadline: 2 May 2024

This course will focus on structure-based Computer-aided drug design. The programme highlights how 3D structures of targeted proteins are obtained experimentally or theoretically as well as the standard and novel approaches in structure-based computer-aided drug design.

More information and registration

Updates from Platforms

The first Core Data Resources & ELIXIR Deposition Databases periodic review

ELIXIR Hub will be running the first Core Data Resources (CDR) and ELIXIR Deposition Databases (EDD) Periodic Review in 2024. Resource stakeholders will have received initial contact last week via the Core Data Resources Forum mailing list and further direct stakeholder contact is to come this week. The full CDR timeline has been update to explain the key steps of the 2024 review process.

Check the full timeline

ELIXIR AAI Community Engagement call

10 April 2024 | 13:00 - 14:00 CEST

Join the AAI community engagement call held by the ELIXIR AAI-focused work package of the ELIXIR Compute Platform (WP2). This will be the first call after a one-year break. The main topic of this call will be the ELIXIR Compute Platform WP2 programme 24-26.

Agenda and Zoom link

Updates from Communities

3D BioInfo Webinar: Protein Engineering And Design 2024

9 April 2024 | 17:00 - 18:00 CEST | Online

In this webinar, Dr. Antonia Mey will present Selective Iterative Latent Variable Refinement, a novel method designed to condition existing equivariant diffusion models based on X-ray fragment hits. Dr. Mathilde Goullieus will talk about a covalent docking procedure for our in-house docking code Attracting Cavities, which mimics the two-step mechanism of covalent ligand binding.

More information and registration

Updates from Focus Groups

ELIXIR-wide OSCARS open calls idea exchange session

12 April 2024 | 15:00 - 16:00 CEST

The ELIXIR EOSC Focus Group will host an ELIXIR-wide OSCARS open calls idea exchange and collaboration session. The session aims to help ELIXIR Node members interested in the OSCARS open calls to share their ideas for collective feedback to strengthen proposals, find suitable Node collaborators and discuss the OSCARS open calls.
Should you wish to share a proposal idea, please contact Gavin Farrell and Jonathan Tedds

Agenda including Zoom link

OSCARS Project - Cascading Grant Evaluator Suggestions

Deadline: 9 April 2024

The OSCARS Consortium has requested suggestions from ELIXIR for potentially suitable cascading grant evaluators for the upcoming open project calls. Please feel free to suggest reviewers in the spreadsheet which will be returned to the OSCARS Project Consortium for their consideration when inviting evaluators to undertake reviews.

Suggest reviewers

Updates from other initiatives

A Guide to FAIR Bioimage Data 2024

23 May 2024 | 14:00 - 17:00 CEST | Online

In this interactive online workshop, Euro-Bioimaging will introduce the FAIR principles in the context of bioimaging data. Designed for researchers across all scales of bioimaging, from molecules to humans, this workshop will provide simple yet effective steps for a smooth start to your FAIR journey.

More information and registration

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

ELIXIR IDP Community meeting
23 May 2024 | 10:00 - 18:00 CEST | Thessaloniki, Greece

ELIXIR All Hands 2024
10-12 June 2024 | Uppsala, Sweden

ECCB 2024
16-20 September 2024 | Turku, Finland

BioHackathon Europe 2024
4 - 8 November 2024 | Barcelona, Spain

Job vacancies

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Bioinformatic technician

Biocomputing group - University of Bologna

PostDoc Cheminformatics

Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry

PostDoc Bioinformatics (metabolomics)

Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry

Cloud Engineer (CyVerse UK)

Earlham Institute