Weekly Brief, 16 October 2023

This week's highlights

Webinar: Making container services integratable, sustainable and widely used

26 October 2023 | 16:00 - 17:00 CEST

This webinar will present the outcomes of the Strategic Implementation Study "Making container services integratable, sustainable and widely used" that aims to build on the current progress and ensure adoption and deployment of these protocols and services by the broader ELIXIR community at scale and to establish plans for sustainability.

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Recommended reads

The Translational Data Catalog - discoverable biomedical datasets

An ELIXIR-LU paper

The discoverability of datasets resulting from the diverse range of translational and biomedical projects remains sporadic. It is especially difficult for datasets emerging from pre-competitive projects, often due to the legal constraints of data-sharing agreements, and the different priorities of the private and public sectors. The Translational Data Catalog is a single discovery point for the projects and datasets produced by a number of major research programmes funded by the European Commission. Funded by and rooted in a number of these European private-public partnership projects, the Data Catalog is built on FAIR-enabling community standards, and its mission is to ensure that datasets are findable and accessible by machines. Here we present its creation, content, value and adoption, as well as the next steps for sustainability within the ELIXIR ecosystem.

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FAIR for AI: An interdisciplinary and international community building perspective

An EOSC Future paper

A foundational set of findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR) principles were proposed in 2016 as prerequisites for proper data management and stewardship, with the goal of enabling the reusability of scholarly data. The principles were also meant to apply to other digital assets, at a high level, and over time, the FAIR guiding principles have been re-interpreted or extended to include the software, tools, algorithms, and workflows that produce data. FAIR principles are now being adapted in the context of AI models and datasets. Here, the authors present the perspectives, vision, and experiences of researchers from different countries, disciplines, and backgrounds who are leading the definition and adoption of FAIR principles in their communities of practice, and discuss outcomes that may result from pursuing and incentivizing FAIR AI research.

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Updates from Nodes

de.NBI Cloud User Meeting 2023

27 - 29 November 2023 | Bielefeld, Germany
Registration deadline: 22 November 2023

The annual de.NBI Cloud User meeting will highlight topics of interest for the growing community. The meeting allows participants to explore best practices in cloud computing, and get to know the de.NBI Clouds capabilities and accelerate research through talks and workshops covering various topics.

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2nd Microbiome PT Summit

26-27 October 2023 | Lisbon, Portugal

ELIXIR-PT, Biodata.pt and SymbNET are hosting the 2nd Microbiome PT Summit, sponsored by ELIXIR Bioinformatics Industry Programme and Novogene, to gather the scientific community in Portugal that is working with microbiomes.

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Explore ELIXIR Switzerland e-learning courses

A wide range of e-learning courses are freely accessible online now. These interactive courses can be followed online, at any time and at your own pace. The courses cover basic concepts (BLAST, MSA, phylogeny), programming, resources developed at SIB or transversal topics covering multiple aspects.

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A new identity to celebrate SIBs 25 years and the future of life science data

In 25 years, SIB has grown from a handful of visionary scientists to a nationwide organization delivering essential services and resources to millions of users. SIB is launching a new website to better reflect the organisation's identity and mission.

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Updates from Focus Groups

First call for Learning Paths Focus Group

17 November 2023 | Online

ELIXIR is excited to invite anyone interested to join the new training related Learning Paths Focus Group. The Focus Group meeting will be held every third Friday of the month with our first call starting on 17 November.

Add the meeting to your calendar

Updates from other initiatives

Register for the BY-COVID event: Open science for pandemic preparedness

6 December 2023 | Brussels, Belgium

The BY-COVID project is hosting an event entitled Open science for pandemic preparedness to highlight and discuss the value of open data and tools in addressing the COVID pandemic and future pandemics.

The event will feature panel discussions with experts from various sectors to share their insights on the role of open data in pandemic preparedness. The event will also showcase the outputs of the BY-COVID project, which aims to provide a platform for sharing and accessing data related to COVID-19 and other infectious diseases.

Register now

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

SIB course: Data Visualisation with R
2-3 November 2023 | Zurich, Switzerland

ELIXIR Events and Conferences

Single Cell Omics Community F2F/hybrid meeting
18-20 October 2023 | Hinxton, UK

BioHackathon Europe 2023
30 October - 3 November 2023 | Barcelona, Spain

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

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
 

Senior research associate in Health Data Science and Human Genetics

University of Geneva

Research associate in Health Data Science and Human Genetics

University of Geneva

Bioinformatician / Research Software Engineer (m/f/d) "Databases for molecular pathogen data"

Leibniz Institute DSMZ

Senior Data Steward

Luxembourg National Data Service

Data Steward

Luxembourg National Data Service