This week's highlights
ELIXIR All Hands event kick-off!
We hope that you're as excited as we are to delve into the programme of the ELIXIR All Hands 2024! With over 400 people registered and a huge diversity of workshops and talks, we're sure it's going to be a fantastic event.
Please use #ELIXIR24 if you're sharing outputs of the event on social media, we look forward to seeing you in Uppsala!
32 projects have been selected for BioHackathon 2024
The BioHackathon Programme Committee has selected 32 projects out of 62 eligible submitted projects. The selection is based on the scope and vision of the project, alignment with the ELIXIR 2024-28 Programme and related initiatives as well as the feasibility of the project. The project partners range across our ELIXIR Nodes and a number also include industrial partners.
Check the list of selected projects
ESFRI Landscape Analysis 2024
The ESFRI Landscape Analysis is a crucial document for mapping the European research infrastructure landscape. It identifies existing synergies, exposes persistent gaps, and proposes improvements on accessibility, networking, and even merging of European, national and regional RIs. This year's edition incorporates direct stakeholder feedback. This analysis not only will inform the next ESFRI Roadmap, but it also contributes to the EOSC SRIA and encourages the development of new research infrastructure services.
Recommended reads
A research data management (RDM) community for ELIXIR
ELIXIR RDM Community whitepaper
The ELIXIR RDM Community brings together RDM experts to develop ELIXIRs vision and coordinate its activities, taking advantage of the available assets. It aims to coordinate RDM best practices and illustrate how to use the existing ELIXIR RDM services. The Community is built around three integral pillars: a network of RDM professionals, RDM knowledge management and RDM training expertise and resources.The Community will also devise an effective strategy to engage with other ELIXIR structures and international stakeholders to influence and align with developments and solutions in the RDM field.
Read more
Secure data-out API - enabling encrypted htsget transactions
A BioHackathon/GDI preprint
EGA is a service for archiving and sharing personally identifiable genetic and phenotypic data, while the GDI project is enabling access to genomic and related phenotypic and clinical data across Europe. Both projects are focused on creating federated and secure infrastructure for researchers to archive and share data with the research community, to support further research. This BioHackathon project focuses on the data access part of the infrastructure. The goal is to create a client tool that can access encrypted data over the htsget protocol.
Read more
Updates from Nodes
VIB single cell transcriptomics summer school
9-12 September 2024 | Ghent, Belgium
In this summer school, the VIB Single Cell Core and the VIB Nucleomics Core will go through the entire workflow from sample preparation, over data acquisition to data analysis.
More information
Expanding and consolidating a course portfolio for ELITMa
The slides of the 3 June 2024 Webinar Expanding and consolidating a course portfolio for ELIXIR Training in Management (ELITMa) by Celia van Gelder (ELIXIR-NL) are now available.
Check the slides
Training Material made FAIR by Design
18 - 19 September 2024 | Uppsala, Sweden
This two-day course is based on the FAIR training handbook and 10 simple rules to make material FAIR publication. All sessions will cover a theoretical & hands-on approach to how to design FAIR training material.
More information and registration
The role of SIB resources in stimulating progress for life sciences
In 2023, SIBs openly available databases and software tools continued to fuel innovation and progress in life sciences. Set to tackle global challenges, the institute provides financial and logistical support for 14 resources available to scientists worldwide.
Read the news
Updates from Platforms
Reengineering ELIXIR RIR: User Survey
This survey is designed to gather insights and feedback from the community to inform the enhancement of RIRs and the development of the ELIXIR product portfolio related to the Interoperability Platform.
Fill out the survey
Updates from other initiatives
European Bioconductor Conference 2024
4 - 6 September 2024 | Oxford, UK
The European Bioconductor conference focuses on cutting-edge bioinformatics and data analysis using R and Bioconductor.
More information and registration
FEGA and European GDI: working together to improve human health
European Genome-phenome Archive (EGA) published a blog post explaining the differences and common ground of Federated EGA and GDI.
Read the blog post
Data Stewardship Wizard and FAIRsharing collaborate to share policy, database and standard metadata
Building on a strong history of collaboration and the needs of international user communities, the Data Stewardship Wizard (DSW) and FAIRsharing are in the process of increasing the connectivity of these widely used resources.
Read the blog post
Global Alliance for Genomics and Health Fireside Chat
25 June 2024 | 23:00 CEST | Online
Join the GA4GH Fireside Chat with Daniel MacArthur, Director of the Centre for Population Genomics based jointly at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research and the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, and Kathryn North, GA4GH Vice-Chair and Director of the Murdoch Children's Research Institute.
Register for the virtual chat
GA4GH 12th Plenary meeting
16 - 20 September 2024 | Melbourne, Australia
GA4GH 12th Plenary brings together the genomics and health community for keynotes, talks, and workshops. The meeting, which will take place in Melbourne Australia this September, will focus on Indigenous genomics, community engagement and patient advocacy, emerging technologies, clinical implementation of medical genetics, and national and regional initiatives.
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
3D-BioInfo Webinar: High Throughput Structural Bioinformatics
18 June 2024 | 17:00 - 18:00 CEST
de.NBI: Training Clinic
21 June 2024 | 12:00 - 13:00 CEST | Online
Train-the-Trainer course
3-5 July 2024 | Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
SIB course: Make your Research FAIRer with Quarto, GitHub and Zenodo
12 July 2024 | Online
Biodiversity bioinformatics: from large-scale phylogenomics to gene families and functions
26-28 August 2024 | Lausanne, Switzerland
Workshop: Upskilling and training users in science and research
24 - 25 September 2024 | Madrid, Spain
EMBL-EBI: Managing a bioinformatics core facility
29-31 October 2024 | EMBL-EBI, UK
ELIXIR Events and Conferences
ECCB 2024
16-20 September 2024 | Turku, Finland
ELIXIR Data Platform F2F 2024
1 - 2 October 2024 | Padova, Italy
ELIXIR STEERS WP2 & WP3 Workshop
2 - 3 October 2024 | Padova,. Italy
BioHackathon Europe 2024
4 - 8 November 2024 | 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
Full Stack Developer
EMBL-EBI
Research Software Engineer
RECETOX
Scientific Database Curator
EMBL EBI
Junior Professorship in AI and Multiscale Modeling in Biology and Bio-medicine
University of Montpellier / CNRS / INSERM
Developer BRENDA database
DSMZ