Weekly Brief, 13 November 2023

This week's highlights

Expression of Interest for Human Data Communities Steering Group

ELIXIR would like to invite an Expression of Interest for funding four Members for the Human Data Communities Steering Group to support the development of the ELIXIR strategy, ensuring alignment of external and internal projects for the area of Human Data and Translational Research as outlined in the ELIXIR Programme 2024-2028.

Interested individuals are asked to express their interest by completing the form below by Friday, 8 December 2023 (17:00 CET). Selections will be made by 18 December 2023. For any questions, please contact Serena Scollen

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Recommended reads

A Galaxy of informatics resources for MS-based proteomics

A Galaxy paper

Continuous advances in mass spectrometry technologies have enabled deeper and more reproducible proteome characterization and a better understanding of biological systems when integrated with other omics data. The community-supported Galaxy ecosystem remains a crucial contributor to basic biological and clinical studies using MS-based proteomics. In addition to the current status of Galaxy-based resources, the authors describe ongoing developments for meeting emerging challenges in MS-based proteomic informatics.

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WikiPathways 2024: next generation pathway database

An ELIXIR-NL paper

WikiPathways is an open-source biological pathway database. Collaboration and open science are pivotal to the success of WikiPathways. Here the authors highlight the continuing efforts supporting WikiPathways, content growth and collaboration among pathway researchers. As an evolving database, there is a growing need for WikiPathways to address and overcome technical challenges. In this direction, WikiPathways has undergone major restructuring, enabling a renewed approach for sharing and curating pathway knowledge, thus providing stability for the future of community pathway curation.

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Updates from Nodes

ISAS and de.NBI/ELIXIR-DE Skyline course 2024

4-7 March 2024 | Dortmund, Germany

ISAS and de.NBI are organising a four-day course in 2024 on the use of the Skyline programme for proteomics and metabolomics, lipidomics and glycomics. The course is aimed at people who are already familiar with the open-source software and at researchers with no prior knowledge.

More information

Connections at CoRDI for data stewardship, training, and for TDCC-LSH

The outputs of the ELIXIR-CONVERGE Training & Capacity Building Work Package (WP2) have been presented at CoRDI2023, the first Conference on Research Data Infrastructures, organised by NFDI. Celia van Gelder, the Training Programme Manager of ELIXIR-NL wrote a blog post on the experience of connecting data stewardship and training with the community at CoRDI.

Read the blog

Updates from Communities

Metabolomics Community Call

14 November 2023 | 14:00 CET

After a successful F2F/hybrid Community meeting everyone with an interest in Metabolomics is invited to join next week's Community call. The meeting will cover a recap of the meeting as well as discussions about an updated white paper/roadmap paper for the Community.

Link to the agenda and login details

Updates from Focus Groups

The first ELIXIR Learning Paths Focus Group meeting

17 November 2023 | 11:00-12:00 CET

The ELIXIR Learning Paths Focus Group meeting will discuss several aspects related to learning paths, including the consolidation of best practices and supporting ELIXIR Communities in the development of learning paths.

Link to the agenda and zoom details
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Environmental Impact Focus Group meeting

30 November 2023 |10:00-11:00 CET

Environmental Impact Focus Group will explore ways to assess and minimise the environmental impact of ELIXIR, and of data handling in general. We will raise awareness about the issues and solutions.

More details of the Focus Group can be found on the webpage
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Updates from other initiatives

Europe PMC User Survey 2023

Europe PMC is currently running a survey to learn how to best support its users. Survey responses will help shape strategic projects and tool development.

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Making data FAIR to all

The ELIXIR-led IMI project FAIRplus has delivered a wealth of resources to help researchers ensure their data is FAIR findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable. IHI has recently released a news article that summarises the highlight achievement of the project.

Read the news

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

3D BioInfo Community meeting
15-17 November 2023 | Hybrid - Prague, Czech Republic

Federated human data (FHD) Community meeting
16-17 November 2023 | Hybrid - Barcelona, Spain

ELIXIR Bioinformatics Industry Forum: Trusted research environments for sharing data in life sciences
21 November 2023 | London, UK

ELIXIR hCNV Community F2F/hybrid meeting
30 November-1 December 2023 | Hybrid - Hinxton, UK

RDM Community & Implementation Study Kick-off Meeting
4-6 December 2023 | Hybrid - Bergen, Norway

Job vacancies

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Training & Outreach Officer for Jalview & The Dundee Resource for Sequence Analysis and Structure Prediction

University of Dundee

6 assistant professor positions (career track) computer science, bioinformatics and AI

Vrije Universiteit