Four new ELIXIR Recommended Interoperability Resources
After a comprehensive internal and external evaluation process, ELIXIR announces four new Recommended Interoperability Resources (RIR). The BioImage Informatics Index (BIII), FAIRtracks, OmicsDI and PLAZA have joined the list alongside the existing ten.
Read the news release
Five ELIXIR Webinars that should be on your radar
Viral Beacon and Galaxy variant workflows
17 February 2021 | 5 pm CET
Crowd-sourcing the annotation of public proteomics datasets to improve data reusability
18 February 2021 | 3 pm CET
Vitamin D, Immunity and Covid-19
24 February 2021 | 2 pm CET
ELIXIR-CONVERGE RDMKit Demo
1 March 2021 | 2 pm CET
Galaxy Webinar Series: Advanced Features
3 March 2021 | 5 pm CET
Save the date: ELIXIR All Hands 2021 goes virtual again
1-11 June 2021 | Online
The ELIXIR All Hands 2021 meeting will include a series of virtual workshops that are now open for applications until 12 March 2021.
The final programme and registration link will be announced in April.
Find out all the details
Recommended reads of the week
Professionalising data stewardship in the Netherlands. Competences, training and education. Dutch roadmap towards national implementation of FAIR data stewardship
This is the end report of the NPOS-F project Professionalising data stewardship, part of the National Programme Open Science and co-led by DTL/ELIXIR-NL. It draws attention to the need for coordinated action and makes clear recommendations on data stewardship competencies, job profiles, training programmes, and on building a single point of reference for up-to-date information.
Continue reading...
ELIXIREXCELERATE: establishing Europe's data infrastructure for the life science research of the future
Published commentary in EMBOJ last week
Creating knowledge by connecting and analysing large amounts of life science data is transforming our society, allowing us to start addressing major scientific and societal challenges, such as adaptation to climate change or pathogen outbreaks in an interconnected world. Modern biology is dependent on the generation, sharing and integrated analysis of digital data at scale.
Continue reading...
Updates from Nodes
The EMBL-EBI Training website has had a makeover
Our colleagues at EMBL-EBI Training have a brand new website. Now featuring a search function and a range of ways to filter your results, training has never been easier to find.
Take a look for yourself
ELIXIR-CH provides post-event recording of the Advanced topics in single-cell transcriptomics course
The recordings are available on the SIB YouTube Channel
ELIXIR-DE | de.NBI needs your help to determine the level of awareness of their infrastructure
de.NBI has launched a survey to determine the level of awareness of de.NBI the German Network for Bioinformatics Infrastructure
Submit your feedback
de.NBI provides two on-demand e-learning courses
Advanced analysis of quantitative proteomics data using R
Differential analysis of quantitative proteomics data using R
All-hands ELIXIR-FR
16 February 2021
The event is aimed at members of the French ELIXIR community, collaborators and partners. During this meeting, you will have access to information about current projects, priorities and objectives for the future.
Programme in French, and English.
Registration
ELIXIR-FR releases new issue of the IFB newsletter
This month the focus is on ELIXIR-FR
Read the issue
ELIXIR-IT releases the Italian COVID-19 Data Portal
The Portal will provide guidelines, tools and services that will facilitate the use of Italian and European infrastructures to share genomics, transcriptomic, imaging, health and protein data.
Navigate the portal
ELIXIR Hungary developes new COVID-19 tool
Members of the Hungarian Node have developed a portal that computes the expected outcome based on age and mutation signature in SARS-CoV-2.
Discover the portal
ELIXIR-NL | Registration opens for two Helis Academy FAIR data stewardship events
Upskilling (young) professionals in Data Analysis and Data Stewardship
15 March 2021 | Online You will learn about the portfolio of courses in Data Analysis & Data Stewardship and the possible next steps to close the gap for digital skills in life sciences and health.
Helis course on FAIR data stewardship
17-31 March 2021 | Online Are you a researcher, (starting) data steward or generally interested in the topic of FAIR Data Stewardship? Then make sure to join this 6 half-day introductory course and register soon, as only 30 participants can join.
ELIXIR-UK: The University of East Anglia joins ELIXIR-UK
The University of East Anglia has been successful in their bid to join ELIXIR-UK as a member organisation. This takes the number of ELIXIR-UK member organisations to 19. ELIXIR-UK looks forward to working together.
Read the news story
Updates from Communities
2021 Galaxy Community Conference goes virtual
28 June - 10 July 2021
Moving online presents many challenges, but also offers opportunities for making this event more accessible and affordable. GCC2021 is embracing those opportunities and they are pleased to announce:
- GCC2021 events will be held twice each day, once in their original Ghent time zone (GCC EMEA/APO), and again 8 hours later in the Americas (GCC Americas).
- Registration rates will be a fraction of the cost of an in-person event and will include a significant discount for students and researchers based in low and lower-middle-income countries.
Updates from other initiatives
FAIRsFAIR publishes draft FAIR assessment framework for data services
The draft is open for community review via a document until 31 July 2021, as well as through a workshop on 19 February 19.
Find all information on the FAIRsFAIR deliverable page.
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
Bioinformatics carpentry utilizing Galaxy
1216 April 2021 | Online
ELIXIR Events and Conferences
CINECA Hackathon: How FAIR are you
21 January - 29 April 2021 | Online
Innovation and SME Forum: Data-Driven Innovation in the Agritech Sector
1012 March 2021 | Online
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
A permanent junior research position in biophysical and systemic modeling of living systems (INRAE)
INRAE
Senior Bioinformatician
Astra Zeneca
Senior Bioinformatician/ Data Engineer / Data Scientist
Astra Zeneca
PhD position: Bioinformatics dissection of aberrant developmental progression during tumorigenesis using a single-cell multi-omics approach (INSERM, CNRS, AMU, Marseille)
INSERM, CNRS, AMU
PhD in Genomics and Bioinformatics
University of Oslo