This week's highlights
ELIXIR at ECCB 2024
16 -20 September 2024 | Turku, Finland
ELIXIR will be an ECCB sponsor this year and hold two workshops and an ELIXIR Communities track programme. The track programme talks will introduce three scientific areas outlined in the 20242028 ELIXIR Scientific Programme and showcase Community activities, as well as the benefits of being a member and using ELIXIR resources.
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Recommended reads
CAFA-evaluator: a Python tool for benchmarking ontological classification methods
An ELIXIR-supported paper
This paper presents CAFA-evaluator, a Python program designed to evaluate the performance of prediction methods on targets with hierarchical concept dependencies. It generalises multi-label evaluation to modern ontologies where the prediction targets are drawn from a directed acyclic graph and achieves high efficiency by leveraging matrix computation and topological sorting.
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Building better genome annotations across the tree of life
A BioHackathon paper
To determine which methods perform the best and determine whether the inclusion of RNA-seq data is necessary to obtain a high-quality annotation, the authors generated annotations with 10 different methods for 21 different species spanning vertebrates, plants, and insects. The study shows that the inclusion of RNA-seq data will lead to substantial improvements in genome annotations.
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Updates from Nodes
Europe PMC API workshop for ELIXIR - Part 2
5 September 2024 | 14:00 - 15:00 CEST
The workshop is tailored specifically for ELIXIR colleagues who wish to integrate and reuse developer tools from Europe PMC. Part 2 of the workshop series will offer support to those who wish to integrate and reuse Europe PMC tools. Recording of workshop part one is available online.
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Updates from Communities
RDM training annotation: strategies for improved curation in TeSS
25 September 2024 | 11:00 - 12:30 CEST
The RDM Training Network, a subgroup of the ELIXIR RDM Community, invites the research community to join this engaging webinar to contribute ideas to enhance RDM training curation best practices and share user experience challenges and suggestions.
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Updates from other initiatives
GA4GH Connect working sessions at the 12th plenary
16 - 17 September 2024 | Melbourne, Australia
The GA4GH Connect working sessions provide an opportunity for contributors to advance the GA4GH Road Map and gather feedback on product development and needs.
INFRAFRONTIER ERIC is seeking a Scientific Director
INFRAFRONTIER, the European Research Infrastructure for Modelling Human Diseases, is seeking a Scientific Director that will act as the legal representative and the executive managing director of Infrafrontier ERIC together with an Administrative Director.
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1st OSCARS Open Call concluded with 58 projects selected
The first OSCARS Open Call for Open Science Projects and Services concluded in July resulting in a total of 58 projects being selected for funding. The projects together cover the widest possible range of types of activities and diversity of subjects.
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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
VIB course: Gentle hands-on introduction to Python programming - in person / online
3 September 2024 | Hybrid - Ghent, Belgium
VIB course: Introduction to Git & GitHub
5 - 6 September 2024 | Leuven, Belgium
SIB course: Introduction to bulk RNA-Seq: from quality control to pathway analysis
19 - 20 September 2024 | Zurich, Switzerland
SIB course: First steps with Python in life sciences
25 - 27 September 2024 | Bern, Switzerland
VIB course: Research Data Management: your ally on the way to your publication
1, 8, 22 October 2024 | Ghent, Belgium
VIB course: Docker and Apptainer (Singularity) for reproducible and automated data analysis
14 - 15 October 2024 | Leuven, Belgium
SIB course: Ensuring More Accurate, Generalisable, and Interpretable Machine Learning Models for Bioinformatics
15 October 2024 | Online
SIB course: Single-Cell transcriptomics with R
29 - 31 October 2024 | Bellinzona, Switzerland
EMBL-EBI course:Single-cell RNA-seq analysis with Python
17 - 21 February 2025 | Online
ELIXIR Events and Conferences
ECCB 2024
16 - 20 September 2024 | Turku, Finland
ELIXIR Single-Cell Omics Community meeting
16 - 17 September 2024 | Helsinki, 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
ELIXIR Federated Human Data Community day
19 November 2024 | Lisbon, Portugal
ELIXIR Interoperability Platform F2F meeting (hybrid) 2024
25 - 26 November 2024 | Hybrid - Manchester, UK
Job vacancies
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