Workshop | Stakeholder mapping and landscape and market analysis
Deadline to apply: 1 December 2020
You will be equipped with tools, tips and tricks on landscape analysis, stakeholder mapping and market analysis, and encouraged to work on your own project. Peers and the trainer will offer immediate feedback.
This is the first workshop of the ELIXIR-CONVERGE Workshop Series on impact, industry relations and communications.
Recommended reads
'Pathway information extracted from 25 years of pathway figures'
Using machine learning, the authors identified 64,643 pathway figures published between 1995 and 2019 and extracted 1,112,551 instances of human genes, comprising 13,464 unique NCBI genes.
The paper highlights the importance of the work from the US/NL-led WikiPathways project.
Read the paper
'Modeling COVID-19 pandemic using Bayesian analysis with application to Slovene data'
Researchers at the University of Ljubljana (ELIXIR Slovenia) describe a framework for modelling the COVID-19 pandemic. They offer a model that estimates the reproduction number of SARS-CoV-2, the number of infected individuals and the number of patients in different disease progression states in time.
Read the paper
Tip of the week
Looking to harness EU Structural Funds to support the development of your Node?
Many Nodes have succeded with such funding and can share examples with you. For more information, contact Andy Smith
Updates from Nodes
ELIXIR-FI | New use case story
'Bioinformatics to revolutionise healthcare: Efficient data processing speeds up diagnoses and enables personalised drug treatments'
ELIXIR Finland has published a new use case story about how data processing can speed up diagnoses and enable personalised drug treatments
Read the use case
ELIXIR-NL in the national BioSB online meeting
In October, ELIXIR-NL took part in the national BioSB meeting for the Dutch bioinformatics and systems biology community. It was held online this year and had two ELIXIR-NL sessions: FAIR resources & training and Data integration.
Updates from last week's RDA conference
Rob Hooft hosted the session RDA in the Life Sciences to discuss the transition of the ELIXIR Bridging Force IG into a group representing data infrastructures in Europe, Africa, Australia and USA. The discussion on the transition will be carried further in the mailing list for the RDA group.
ELIXIR-NL at the Open Chemical Science meeting
Egon Willighagen contrasted Open Science with Open Access in his talk at the Royal Society of Chemistry
See the slides
Would you like to name the next bioinformatics infrastructure?
Deadline to contribute: 15 December 2020
BSC (ELIXIR-ES) is completing the installation of a large infrastructure that will hold up to 165 petabytes of scientific data.
They are looking for a name for this machine. At the BSC annual meeting, an internal committee will select the 10 best proposals and the BSC staff will choose the final name.
Chip in with your idea
Call for entries for the SIB Bioinformatics Awards 2021
Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics is supporting bioinformatics excellence through its Bioinformatics Awards looking for bioinformaticians with a remarkable early career, graduate students who published an interesting paper or ground-breaking resources of national and international standing.
- The Early Career Bioinformatician Award Open to International Entry
- The Bioinformatics Resource Innovation Award Open to International Entry
- The Swiss Bioinformatics Graduate Paper Award National Award
Updates from Platforms
Data Platform Virtual F2F meeting
30 November 2020 | Online
- Read the draft agenda
- For further details or doubts, contact Sirarat Sarntivijai
Register now Updates from other initiatives
Read and subscribe to the B1MG Stakeholder Newsletter
Beyond One Million Genomes (B1MG) is an ELIXIR-coordinated EU project
B1MG recently released its first newsletter issue with a welcome note from Serena Scollen, the project coordinator, and the latest updates and developments related to the project.
Read the first issue
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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
BioData.pt Talks: The BioData.pt Microbiology and Biotechnology Community
17 November 2020 | 67 pm CET, Online
ELIXIR Webinar | Mapping the landscape of Biocuration in ELIXIR
25 November 2020 | 3 pm CET, Online
ELIXIR AAI advanced training for Relying Services
26 November 2020 | 10 am12:30 pm, Online
Train the Trainer (TtT)
14 December 2020 | 25:30 pm CET, Online
ELIXIR Webinar | Systematic Access to Prokaryotic (Meta)Data: An Introduction to the BacDive Database
2 December 2020 | 2 pm CET, Online
Omics Data Analysis Course
1213 January 2021 | Online
ELIXIR Events and Conferences
UK Health Data Research Alliance Symposium
1 December 2020 | Online
FAIRplus Innovation and SME Forum 2021
13 January 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
Scientific Curator/Bioinformatician
EMBL-EBI
Director Data and Knowledge Engineering
The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, DTU Biosustain
DevOps Engineer
ELIXIR-Luxembourg / Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine
Senior Bioinformatician
AstraZeneca
Scientific Associate (Laboratory Technician) / Senior Scientific Associate (Laboratory Manager)
University of Cambridge, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute