Weekly Brief, 1 May 2023

This week's highlights

ELIXIR industry event: machine learning & AI in life science research

On 13 April, ELIXIR and ELIXIR Netherlands held an Innovation and SME Forum focusing on machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) in health research with more than 60 participants from industry and academia.

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Update your maps!

Following the announcement of Austria joining ELIXIR as an Observer, please update all ELIXIR map visuals (the standard slide deck has been updated).

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Recommended reads

Mobilisation and analyses of publicly available SARS-CoV-2 data for pandemic responses

A COVID-19 Data Platform pre-print

The COVID-19 pandemic has seen large-scale pathogen genomic sequencing efforts, becoming part of the toolbox for surveillance and epidemic research. The European COVID-19 Data Platform was launched to support data sharing and has resulted in the deposition of several million SARS-CoV-2 raw reads. As a component of the Platform, the SARS-CoV-2 Data Hubs enabled the extension and set up of infrastructure that we intend to use more widely in the future for pathogen surveillance and pandemic preparedness.


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Empowering the community with notebooks for bespoke microbiome analyses

A BioHackathon pre-print

MGnify's recently launched Notebook Server provides an online Jupyter Lab environment for users to explore programmatic access to MGnify's datasets using Python or R. This pre-print report several developments to the Notebook Server completed during the BioHackathon Europe 2022. The developments include establishing an instance of the notebooks on the Galaxy platform and adding new notebooks and Jupyter UI extensions enabling more users to perform downstream analysis tasks on MGnify's extensive metagenomics datasets.

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Updates from Nodes

Discover the SIB Remarkable Outputs 2022

Selected by the Award Committee, this must-read list of achievements by SIB Scientists is particularly deserving of attention from the global bioinformatics community.

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New study unravels why partners often share similar traits

Partners in couples often tend to present striking trait similarities. For the first time, the reasons for this are teased apart by Zoltn Kutalik and his team, using advanced statistical methods and large public datasets. The results have recently been published in the journal Nature Human Behavior.

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Updates from Communities

Register for the IDP Community F2F/hybrid Meeting

3-4 July 2023 | Hybrid - Bratislava, Slovakia
Registration deadline: 29 May (in person) | 04 July (online)

The IDP Community F2F/hybrid Meeting aims to unite experimentalists and method developers to discuss challenges and define joint opportunities in the field. A part of the meeting will be dedicated to the 2024-2028 Scientific Programme and the Community's possible role and activities.

The meeting will be held before the COST Action ML4NG Main Conference (July 4-7)

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Updates from other initiatives

AI4Health School

3-7 July 2023 | Hybrid - Paris, France

With three days of plenary lectures led by international experts accompanied by two days of hands-on practical sessions, the summer school will cover the latest advances in the field of artificial intelligence applied to health.

More information and registration

Challenge-Call on Advancing Personalised Oncology

Deadline: 25 May 2023

The canSERV Consortium announces its first Challenge-Call on Advancing Personalised Oncology. The aim of this call is to accelerate knowledge gain in personalised oncology with specific emphasis on multi-level data-based treatment guidance linked to Molecular Tumour Boards.

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euCanSHare course on Cardiovascular cohorts identification and data harmonisation

15 May 2023 | 9:00-11:00 CEST

This educational course offers an opportunity to learn from experts in the field of cardiovascular research. Through in-depth sessions on cohort identification and data harmonisation, participants will gain valuable insights into the latest research techniques and methods.

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 All Hands 2023
5-8 June 2023 | Dublin, Ireland

IDP Community F2F/hybrid Meeting
3-4 July 2023 | Hybrid - Bratislava, Slovakia

BioHackathon Europe 2023
30 October - 3 November 2023 | Barcelona, Spain

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
 

SILVA - Scientist Microbial Ecology & Taxonomy

DSMZ

SILVA - Backend developer Maven / Spring Boot

Leibniz Institute DSMZ

BRENDA - Data Expert Biochemistry/Enzymology

Leibniz Institute DSMZ

Web developers and designers

CRG

Fixed-term technical position: Interoperability services for biomedical data

Biocomputing group - University of Bologna