This week's highlights
New starter at ELIXIR Hub
Mihail Anton joined ELIXIR Hub on 1 February as a Senior Science Officer - Tools & Training.
Recommended reads
Ten quick tips for building FAIR workflows
An EJP RD paper
Research data is accumulating rapidly and with it the challenge of fully reproducible science. As a consequence, implementation of high-quality management of scientific data has become a global priority. The FAIR principles provide practical guidelines for maximising the value of research data; however, processing data using workflows-systematic executions of a series of computational tools-is equally important for good data management. The FAIR principles have recently been adapted to Research Software (FAIR4RS Principles) to promote the reproducibility and reusability of any type of research software. The authors propose a set of 10 quick tips that will help researchers apply FAIR4RS principles to workflows.
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The European Nucleotide Archive in 2023
An ELIXIR-CONVERGE | ENA paper
The European Nucleotide Archive is maintained by the European Molecular Biology Laboratory's European Bioinformatics Institute. The ENA serves the bioinformatics community worldwide via the submission, processing, archiving and dissemination of sequence data. The authors describe recent progress and improvements to ENA services. In particular, we focus upon three areas of work in 2023: FAIRness of ENA data, pandemic preparedness and foundational technology. To support genomic surveillance efforts, the authors have continued to provide ENA services in support of SARS-CoV-2 data mobilisation and have adapted these for broader pathogen surveillance efforts.
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Updates from Nodes
Empowering Biodiversity Research III
25-26 March 2024 | Leiden, the Netherlands
The Benelux Biodiversity Informatics community and partners are organising the Empowering Biodiversity Research conference (EBR III) on 25-26 March 2024. The conference will focus on biodiversity data standards and tools and the latest developments in the world of Biodiversity Informatics.
More information and registration
Bioinformatics & Systems Biology Conference 2024
18-19 June 2024 | Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands
The 10th edition of the Dutch Bioinformatics & Systems Biology (BioSB) will be organised on 18 and 19 June 2024 in Egmond aan Zee, the Netherlands. The call for abstracts to give an oral or poster presentation during this conference is now open.
Updates from Communities
ELIXIR Microbial Biotechnology Community: Call for new co-lead
Deadline: 26 February
The ELIXIR Microbial Biotechnology Community is looking for one new co-lead to join the Community leadership team. Candidates should submit a short statement of their background and what they believe they will bring to the role. For any questions or nominations, please contact Clare Garrard
Updates from other initiatives
The Pathogens Portal: A gateway to vast biomolecular data for pathogen research
27 March 2024 | 16:30-17:30 CET
The webinar will provide background to the Pathogens Portal and a run-through of key features and how to navigate the portal.
OSCARS kick-off meeting & call for open science projects
13-15 March 2024 | Online
The OSCARS kick-off meeting will bring together the scientific communities of the five Science Clusters and all project partners to define the work plan and the inter-cluster synergies to be deployed. On 15 March, the first OSCARS Open Call for Open Science projects will be launched.
More information
Discovering reviewed preprints
The ELIXIR Core Data Resource Europe PMC, the open life science database, now links preprints to peer reviews. This improves the findability of reviews, allowing scientists to exchange expertise quickly and with ease.
Read Europe PMC blog
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
SIB course: NGS - Genome Variant Analysis
26-27 February 2024 | Bern, Switzerland
SIB course: Enrichment Analysis
11 March 2024 | Online
de.NBI Spring School 2024 - Bioinformatics for Microbial Omics
18-22 March | Bielefeld, Germany
ELIXIR Events and Conferences
Training Platform and Coordinators Triangle co-located event
4-6 March 2024 | Prague, Czech Republic
ELIXIR All Hands 2024
10-12 June 2024 | Uppsala, Sweden
ECCB 2024
16-20 September 2024 | Turku, Finland
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
Principal Engineer/Head Engineer/Senior Engineer
University of Bergen
1-2 Data Stewards with focus on human data management
Uppsala University
Senior Research Engineer on Research Infrastructures for Precision Medicine projects (RE3)
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), coordinators of INB/ELIXIR-ES
Web Front-end Developer (RE2)
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), coordinators of INB/ELIXIR-ES