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This week's highlights
Another successful BioHackathon Europe!
As many of you will know last week we held the 4th BioHackathon Europe meeting. This attracted ~420 participants from across the world to work on diverse 37 life-science projects.
The event was our first true foray into a large-scale hybrid event and we're pleased to say that it certainly did not hinder the scientific developments! Stay tuned to find out more about the event in our upcoming news release.
Submit your workshop ideas for the ELIXIR All Hands Meeting 2022!
Submission deadline 8 December
7 - 10 June 2022 | Amsterdam, Netherlands
We would like to invite you to submit workshop ideas for the upcoming ELIXIR 2022 All Hands meeting; workshops will take place on 7 and 9 June 2022.
Full details and link to submission
We're hiring a ELIXIR Communications Officer
Deadline this Thursday 18 November
We're looking for a communications expert to help build the ELIXIR Communications Strategy and communicate ELIXIR and its activities to key stakeholders.
Find out more and apply
Recommended reads
PhylomeDB V5: an expanding repository for genome-wide catalogues of annotated gene phylogenies
An ELIXIR Spain paper
PhylomeDB is a unique knowledge base providing public access to mineable and browsable catalogues of pre-computed genome-wide collections of annotated sequences, alignments and phylogenies (i.e. phylomes) of homologous genes, as well as to their corresponding phylogeny-based orthology and paralogy relationships. Here, we describe the latest evolution of PhylomeDB (version 5).
Read more...
Performance of Web tools for predicting changes in protein stability caused by mutations
An ELIXIR Italy paper
Despite decades on developing dedicated Web tools, it is still difficult to predict correctly the changes of the thermodynamic stability of proteins caused by mutations. Here, we assessed the reliability of five recently developed Web tools, in order to evaluate the progresses in the field.
Read more...
Updates from Communities
Register now for the SARS-CoV-2 Data Analysis and Monitoring workshop with Galaxy
1 December 2021 | Virtual
Supported by ELIXIR-CONVERGE and BY-COVID among others, this event is offering a condensed version of the previous successful 4-day workshop.
Workshop participants will become familiar with the robust, high-throughput, user-friendly workflows that enable variant identification, consensus sequence generation, and lineage identification. Analysis skills gained in this workshop will translate to future sequencing challenges and enable rapid adaptation using publicly funded compute resources across the globe.
Updates from Nodes
New article on how patient data is helping to create better artificial intelligence models
Read more
Find out more about ELIXIR Finland's role in GA4GH Passport and Data Use Ontology
Read more
Join the 2nd 'Women in data science - perspectives in industry and academia' event
2 December 2021 | 15:00 CET | Virtual
Find out more and register
Your help needed! Share your experience of sex & gender reporting in biomedical research
The project 35 FAIRX from the BioHackathon Europe 2021 has produced a survey. The aim is to promote systematic reporting of sex and gender in research and foster diversity in biomedical practices. We want to observe the awareness of domain experts regarding these two variables in biomedical research, as well as their attitude towards capturing diversity, including other dimensions of intersectionality such as age, race or ethnicity. Please fill in or share the survey below.
Fill in the survey
Updates from Other Initiatives
New GA4GH special issue in Cell Genomics!
Read the special issue
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-FI: Workshop for scRNA-seq data analysis trainers
30 November 2021 | 12:00 - 15:00 CET Virtual
SARS-CoV-2 Data analysis and Monitoring workshop with Galaxy
1 December 2021 | Virtual
ELIXIR-DE: 2nd Women in Data Science - Perspectives in industry and academia
2 December 2021 | 15:00 CET
ELIXIR-BE: Migrating tools to the cloud
2 December 2021 | 14:00 - 17:15 CET | Virtual
ELIXIR-SE: FAIR principles into research practice
9 December 2021 | 09:00 - 16:00 CET | Virtual
ELIXIR Events and Conferences
ELIXIR-CONVERGE workshop series: Getting started with impact evaluation
15 November 2021 | 10:00 CET | Virtual
ELIXIR's Consultation event on international engagement
30 November 2021 | 14:00-16:00 CET | Virtual
ELIXIR-CONVERGE workshop series: Lessons learned from organising and hosting a hybrid conference
8 December 2021 | 14:00 CET | Virtual
ELIXIR All Hands meeting 2022
7 - 10 June 2022 | Amsterdam, Netherlands
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
Postdoctoral position in bioinformatics/data science
University of Copenhagen (UCPH)
ELIXIR Communications Officer
ELIXIR
Senior bioinformatician
Oslo University Hospital
Postdoctoral fellow (Research Associate)
ELIXIR-Luxembourg / Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine
Scientific Full-stack Python Developer
ELIXIR-Luxembourg / Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine