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Towards better findability: Bioschemas meets Schema.org
On 7 July 2021, Schema.org included five Bioschemas types for representing life sciences data in its latest release. This update signifies an important step towards developing web markup in the life sciences. It will improve the findability of many web resources in the domain and ultimately translate into more efficient research.
Schema.org is an international community effort, with Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Yandex adopting its vocabulary on their applications and search engines. It provides technical specifications to major search engines to distinguish and index different data objects on the internet.
In the life...
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ELIXIR funds seven new life science data projects
Seven new Community-led Implementation Studies were launched on 1 June 2021 covering a diverse range of topics across a variety of life science disciplines. Collectively these projects were awarded €1.5 million, funded through ELIXIR’s Core budget, and will run until 2023.
The seven new Community-led implementation studies all relate to ELIXIR Communities and are as follows:
- Building on PDBe-KB to chart and characterise the conformational landscape of native proteins | 3D Bioinfo Community, ten ELIXIR Nodes involved
- Strengthen data management in Galaxy | Galaxy Community, 12 ELIXIR Nodes involved
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Upcoming events
3D-Bioinformatics 2021 Annual Workshop
ELIXIR Communities enable the participation of communities of practice in different areas of the life sciences in the activities of ELIXIR, which underpin the evolution of a data, tools, interoperability, compute and training infrastructure for European life science informatics (see www.elixir-europe.org/use-cases ).
Structural bioinformatics has a broad impact across the life sciences and provides tools to archive, visualise, analyse, annotate, and predict molecular structures.
Structural bioinformatics is traditionally very strong in Europe offering many software tools, methodologies, and databases, as well as community-wide prediction challenges. Its applications cover research activities from structural biology to drug discovery and...
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BioHackathon Europe 2021
Each November ELIXIR organises BioHackathon Europe, which brings together bioinformaticians from around the world. The event takes place in different locations around Europe. This year it will be at the Campus La Mola near Barcelona.
The BioHackathon offers an intense week of hacking, with over 160 international participants who work on diverse and exciting projects. This year there will be 37 hacking projects .
For details of this year's event see the BioHackathon website . To find out what happened in previous BioHackathons, see the BioHackathon Europe page .
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ELIXIR-FR : 4th Workshop Single-Cell 2022 (Roscoff-FRANCE)
Training : Single-Cell : Transcriptomics, Spatial and Multi-Omics (sincellTE)
Deadline pre-registration: 15th September 2021
This one-week class focuses on the large-scale study of heterogeneity across individual cells from the genomic, transcriptomic and epigenomic points of view. New technological developments enable the characterization of molecular information at a single cell resolution for large numbers of cells. The high dimensional omics data that these technologies produce comes with novel methodological challenges for the analysis. In this regard, specific bioinformatics and statistical methods have been developed in order to extract robust information.
This course is directed towards engineers and researchers...
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