Weekly Brief, 8 January 2024

This week's highlights


ELIXIR excels in research infrastructure monitoring exercise


ELIXIRs performance has been commended in a monitoring exercise associated with its ESFRI (European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures) landmark status.

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ELIXIR Science Officer - Research Environments & Software

Closing 14 January


ELIXIR is participating in two significant Horizon Europe projects:

  • EVERSE - a European Virtual Institute for Research Software Excellence
  • EOSC-ENTRUST - a European Network for Trusted Research Environments.

To support our leadership roles in these projects, we are looking for a technical specialist with experience in the fields of research software and analysis of sensitive datasets applied to biological and biomedical problems.

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Initial meeting of Generative AI (non scientific/technical) discussion group

Monday 15 January | 14-15 CET | online


Join to help shape a new ELIXIR group on using generative AI in non scientific/technical applications (e.g. in productivity). We will discuss objectives, activities, outputs and timelines.

The short planning document is open for comments and contains the Zoom link.

ELIXIR supports the Amsterdam Declaration on Funding Research Software Sustainability


ELIXIR is pleased to support the Amsterdam Declaration on Funding Research Software Sustainability (ADORE.software) that aims to raise awareness of the role of funding practice in the sustainability of research software, and to improve that practice.

Recommended reads

Software pipelines for RNA-Seq, ChIP-Seq and germline variant calling analyses in CWL

An ELIXIR Greece paper


We assembled automated pipelines for the analysis of High-throughput Sequencing (HTS) data originating from RNA-Seq, ChIP-Seq and Germline variant calling experiments. We implemented these workflows in Common workflow language (CWL) and evaluated their performance.

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The European Reference Genome Atlas: piloting a decentralised approach to equitable biodiversity genomics

A BGE and BioHackathon pre-print


As the European node of the Earth BioGenome Project (EBP), the European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA) launched a pilot project to develop and test infrastructure for coordinated and distributed reference genome production on 98 European eukaryotic species from 33 European countries.

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Updates from Platforms

Register for the Compute Platform face-to-face meeting

24-25 January | Brno, Czech Republic and online


The 2024 Compute Platform F2F will take place over 1.5 days on 24-25 January, 2024. We invite you to join us and register for the event at the Courtyard by Marriott, Brno in the Czech Republic. Online remote attendee registration is also possible.

The event website contains the registration link and further event details.

Updates from other initiatives

Global Biodata Coalition announces 15 additions to the Global Core Biodata Resource list


The Global Biodata Coalition has announced 15 additions to the Global Core Biodata Resources (GCBRs), a collection of biodata resources whose long term funding and sustainability is critical to life science and biomedical research worldwide.

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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 Compute Platform 2024 Face-to-Face Meeting
24 January 2024 | Brno, Czech Republic

Job vacancies

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