Weekly Brief, 13 May 2024

This week's highlights

ELIXIR supports operations of two Infrastructure Services

ELIXIR has announced over 350,000 Euros to support two key life science Infrastructure Services - ELIXIR AAI and ELIXIR TeSS from April 2024 until the end of 2026.

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The agenda for ELIXIR All Hands 2024 is now live

Participants for ELIXIR All Hands 2024 can now check the agenda on the website and map out what mini-symposia and workshops to join.

Full agenda on the website

Recommended reads

The 1+Million Genomes Minimal Dataset for Cancer

A 1+MG initiative article

Defining minimal standards for data collection is key to creating interoperative, searchable genomic and clinical databases. This article highlights the 1+Million Genomes Minimal Dataset for Cancer, encompassing 140 items in 8 domains to foster the collection of cancer data, inform transnational cooperation and advance precision cancer medicine.


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FAIR data retrieval for sensitive clinical research data in Galaxy

A CINECA paper

In clinical research, data have to be accessible and reproducible, but the generated data are becoming larger and analysis complex. This paper proposes a platform for FAIR data access and creating reproducible findings. The authors aim to provide a FAIR data analysis service in Galaxy by retrieving genomic data from the EGA and provide a generalized omics platform for FAIR data analysis.

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Updates from Nodes

NuGO Webinar - How to use Artificial Intelligence in Nutrition Research

13 June 2024 | 15:00 - 16:00 CEST | Online

Join this webinar and delve into the exciting world of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and how to use it in Nutrition Research. This first webinar series will focus on Large language models such as ChatGPT and how they can help us with our research.

More information

Updates from Communities

Microbial Community welcomes a new co-lead

Pablo Carbonell from Universitat Politcnica de Valncia (ELIXIR-ES) has been elected as the new co-lead of the Community, joining Anil Wipat and Martins Dos Santos Vitor.

hCNV Community webinar series

16 May 2024 | 13:00 - 14:00 CEST

The hCNV Community is organising a webinar focusing on making complex genomics data accessible.

More information and registration

Updates from other initiatives

Strategies for training and knowledge exchange with a consulting perspective

Registration deadline: 7 June 2024
25 - 26 June 2024 | Online

This hands-on workshop will introduce the participants to essential training theory, needs assessment techniques and effective delivery strategies in training and consulting, followed by an introduction to consulting with a focus on bioinformatics.

More information and registration

Application for RItrainPlus summer school is now open

The Learning Activities, developed and taught by RItrainPlus partners, will be delivered in the form of winter and summer schools. The applications for the summer school, taking place in June-July 2024, are now open. The summer school will focus on multidisciplinary teamwork, communication and innovation.

More information on the summer school

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 2024
10-12 June 2024 | Uppsala, Sweden

ECCB 2024
16-20 September 2024 | Turku, Finland

ELIXIR Data Platform F2F 2024
1 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
 

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