Weekly Brief, 14 September 2020

White paper from emerging Food and Nutrition community

The emerging Food and Nutrition community has prepared a white paper to describe their strategy and alignment with ongoing ELIXIR activities. We welcome you to take a look at the plans in this Google document and ask you to provide your comments in the document by 6 November 2020.

ScienceEurope and OECD have published a joint report on optimising the use of national Research Infrastructures

The Report can be viewed on the ScienceEurope website.

COVID-19 Viral Beacon

A beacon in the ocean of SARS-CoV-2 data

The COVID-1 Viral Beacon is an ELIXIR Spain platform that allows researchers to browse SARS-CoV-2 variability at the genome, amino acid, structural and motif level
Bioinformaticians from the Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG) have built this time-saving tool with an extremely friendly interface

Find out more

BioHackathon-Europe registration is closing in 4 days

9-13 November 2020 | Online

Registration is closing on 18 September 2020. Don't forget to register, seats are limited!

Did you know we have created webinar guidelines for those who've seen
their F2F meetings transformed into online conferences?

Updates from Nodes

ELIXIR-FI publishes article on AI

'Tissue samples into digital images, interpreted by artificial intelligence'

Turku University Hospital and Auria Biobank aim to digitalise all tissue specimens. Artificial intelligence models will classify the samples to identify, for instance, cancer.
Read the article

Online X-omics festival "The future is now!"

28 September 2020 | 9:30 - 14:00 (CEST)

If you are a researcher working in -omics (genomics, proteomics, metabolomics) and / or deal with data analysis, integration & stewardship join the online X-omics festival. Read more on the event website.

Updates from Platforms

If you are developing software, we want your feedback!

Fill in a 10-minutes form

The Software Best Practices group is following up on the webinar on the Development of an ELIXIR Software Management Plan (SMP). If you are involved in developing software, please fill in the SMP useability form before 25 September 2020
Share your feedback

ELIXIR Webinar: Ten Simple Rules for Making Training Materials FAIR

Thursday, 17 September 2020 | 15:00 (CEST)
Leyla Garcia (ZB MED, Germany) and Patricia Palagi (SIB)

The ELIXIR Training Platform has put together a Ten Simple Rules for Making Training Materials FAIR, which simplify the FAIR principles by breaking them down into very practical steps. In this webinar we will introduce these ten rules and discuss the challenges and ideas to put them into practice. More information and registration at:
https://elixir-europe.org/events/elixir-webinar-fair-training

Mapping the landscape of Biocuration in ELIXIR

The outcomes of the ELIXIR Training Platform Implementation Study - Mapping the landscape of Biocuration in ELIXIR: Practice, capability and training requirements - were published recently in F1000Research.

Updates from Focus Groups

New Focus Group launched!

ELIXIR Registries Focus Group

The ELIXIR Registries Focus Group aims to identify and implement a framework of best practice(s). Its goal is to allow the different listing/cataloguing/registry resources within the ELIXIR network to exchange information harmoniously.
We welcome participation from ELIXIR-wide members. Contact sirarat.sarntivijai@elixir-europe.org for any questions.

Subscribe to the Focus Group 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. A link off to the TeSS portal

Webinar: Ten Simple Rules for making Training Materials FAIR

17 September | 15:00 CEST

Omics-based tools for biotechnological processes

24 September 2020 | 10:00 12:00 CEST

Applying drug design tools to design treatments against COVID-19

24 September 2020 | Online

Introduction to the Cloud for Proteomics Analyses

23 November 2020 | Online

de.NBI offers 4 plant bioinformatics courses

ELIXIR Events and Conferences

European Research and Innovation Days

2224 September 2020 | Online

Niklas Blomberg will introduce ELIXIR's work with a specific emphasis on health data and COVID-19. Join the panel discussion on 23 September, Hub 3 Digitalisation at 10.30 am CEST.

EBIF 2020 Series | Commercialisation of Research in Bioinformatics

29 October 2020 | Online

ELIXIR's Virtual BioHackathon-Europe

913 November 2020 | Now Online

Registration deadline: 18 September 2020

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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