Weekly Brief, 16 September 2024

This week's highlights

ELIXIR Science Tier open call reopening: Human Data and Translational Research Linking Data theme

Call will be open for applications from 30 September to 10 November 2024

The Linking Data theme of the Human Data and Translational Research open call will reopen on 30 September to fund one project following the same objectives, submission requirements and evaluation criteria as the previous call.

The successful project should aim to start on 1 January 2025, or by 31 March 2025 at the latest, and be completed by 31 December 2026. More information will follow when the call opens.

For enquiries related to the Human Data and Translational Research open call, please contact Magda Chegkzi

For general inquiries about the open call process, please contact proposals@elixir-europe.org

ELIXIR and NIH sign MoA

ELIXIR has signed a Memorandum of Agreement with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the medical research agency in the United States of America making and funding discoveries that improve health and save lives. The agreement, extending until 2028, formalises seven years of collaboration between the parties, and aims to advance life and health science research internationally for the benefit of all.

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ELIXIR features in the Genome British Columbia Data Literacy series

23 September 2024 | 18:30 - 19:30 CEST

In the next Genome British Columbia (Genome BC) Data Literacy series, Tim Hubbard, the ELIXIR Director, will present how ELIXIRs innovative initiatives foster collaboration and drive scientific breakthroughs.

More information and registration

Recommended reads

Comparing full variation profile analysis with the conventional consensus method in SARS-CoV-2 phylogeny

A BY-COVID paper

This study proposes a novel approach to studying severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 virus mutations through sequencing data comparison. Traditional consensus-based methods, which focus on the most common nucleotide at each position, might overlook or obscure the presence of low-frequency variants. Utilising simulated short reads from genomes with specified mutations, the researchers contrasted the genomic matrix approach with the consensus sequence method. In real-world tests using data from GISAID and NCBI-SRA, this approach demonstrated an increase in reliability by reducing the error margin. The genomic matrix approach offers a more accurate representation of the viral genomic diversity, thereby providing superior insights into virus evolution and epidemiology.

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The bioinformatics landscape in environmental omics: Lessons from a national ELIXIR survey

An ELIXIR Greece paper

This paper presents a survey on a community of researchers studying the environment with omics approaches in ELIXIR Greece. Personal interviews followed by quantitative and qualitative analysis were employed to document interactions and practices of the community and to perform a gap analysis for the transition toward multiomics and systems biology. Environmental omics in Greece mostly concerns production of data, in large majority on microbes and non-model organisms. The survey highlighted the popularity and suitability of targeted hands-on training events, data quality and management issues as important elements for the transition to multiomics, and lack of knowledge and misconceptions regarding interoperability, metadata standards, and pre-registration.


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Updates from Nodes

List of ELIXIR Estonia's upcoming training courses

ELIXIR Estonia provides local and international training to introduce ELIIXR services to researchers.

Check the training courses

Impact and green workshop

30 September 2024 | Online

BioData.pt | ELIXIR Portugal is hosting an impact assessment and environmental sustainability workshop in collaboration with ELIXIR Hub, ELIXIR Italy and ELIXIR Norway. The workshop will focus on:

• Assessing the impact of research activities
• Learning how impact assessment is conducted in research infrastructures
• Greening research (operations, computing, etc)
• Understanding ELIXIR's initiatives on environmental sustainability

More information and registration

Survey on reporting practices for research in computational science disciplines

This survey aims to gather insights into the reporting practices for research studies or experiments in computational science disciplines. The survey should take approximately 20-30 minutes to complete.

Fill out the survey

Updates from Platforms

ELIXIR Training Platform 2024 face-to-face meeting report

The ELIXIR Training Platform 2024 face-to-face meeting took place on 4-5 March. The event commenced with a roundtable introduction and an overview of the Platform's early progress in the newly-commenced 2024-26 work plan. The meeting report is now available on Zenodo.

Read the report

ELIXIR Cloud's Google Summer of Code Projects final showcase presentations webinar

15 October 2024 | 16:00 - 17:00 CEST | Online

The Compute Platform welcomes all to join the final showcase presentations and webinar on the work of the ELIXIR Cloud's Google Summer of Code Projects.

Agenda and Zoom link

Updates from Communities

Registrations for Galaxy Training Academy are open

7 - 11 October 2024 | Online
Deadline: 30 September 2024

The Galaxy Academy is an online training event for researchers who would like to improve their Galaxy data analysis skills.

More information and registration

Updates from Focus Groups

IHI-funded project SYNTHIA set to support synthetic data generation

The aim of the new IHI project SYNTHIA is to deliver validated, reliable tools and methods for synthetic data generation. This project could be seen as a result of the activities of ELIXIR Machine Learning Focus Group members.

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Updates from other initiatives

Stories of Success from the BY-COVID project

As the BY-COVID project is coming to an end, the project presents a selection of success stories, framed by the concept of a FAIR data journey. Sixteen success stories are highlighted in 5 sections of the brochure.

Read the brochure

Monthly Bioschemas community call

16 September 2024 | 17:00 - 18:00 CEST

The meeting will feature a presentation about RO-Crates and model representation.

The agenda of the event can be found here

canSERV position paper

The canSERV project published a position paper to outline how it will be supporting cancer research in the 2025 Horizon Europe Work Programmes for Research Infrastructures, Health, and EU Missions.

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RI-HUB webinar: Data management for facilities

8 October 2024 | 16:00 - 17:00 CEST | Online

The RI-HUB webinar series focuses on data management, science diplomacy, and facility management with speakers from Latin America and Europe.

More information and registration

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

ELIXIR Data Platform F2F 2024
1 - 2 October 2024 | Padova, Italy

ELIXIR STEERS WP2 & WP3 workshop
2 - 3 October 2024 | Padova, Italy

BioHackathon Europe 2024
4 - 8 November 2024 | Barcelona, Spain

ELIXIR Federated Human Data Community day
19 November 2024 | Lisbon, Portugal

ELIXIR Interoperability Platform F2F meeting (hybrid) 2024
25 - 26 November 2024 | Hybrid - Manchester, 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

 

Postdoc / research assistant - genome annotation of non-model species using long-read sequencing

I2SysBio-CSIC

BioFAIR Architect

Earlham Institute

ELIXIR AT node coordinator (senior scientist)

University of Vienna and Medical University of Vienna