This week's highlights
Successful supercomputing bid enables ELIXIR compute community
ELIXIR Finland (CSC - IT Center for Science) has been chosen by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking as one of seven hosts of next EuroHPC supercomputers and AI Factories. The new funding boosts the potential impact of Compute Platform activities and is recognition of ELIXIR as a European leader in life sciences compute services and expertise.
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Share your insights on roles and collaboration within ELIXIR
Deadline: 30 January 2025
The People Commissioned Service PeoplePulse is conducting a survey to recognise the various roles within ELIXIR Nodes and understand how employees perceive their own roles within the Node.
Fill out the survey
New members of the ELIXIR Scientific Advisory Board
ELIXIR Hub is delighted to announce three new members have joined the ELIXIR Scientific Advisory Board (SAB), namely:
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Detlef Weigel, Max Planck Institute for Biology, Germany - for expertise in evolutionary biology
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Luisa Mesquita Pereira, i3S Association / University of Porto, Portugal - for expertise in population genetics
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David Glazer, Verily, USA - for expertise in generic modelling
Due to the unsuccessful appointment of an additional expert in the field of AI, the appointment will be postponed until the next round of SAB appointments in April 2025.
For any questions about the appointments or the SAB, please contact Jo Wingender.
New staff in the Hub
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Yuliia Sydorenko joined the Project Management team at ELIXIR Hub to support EC non-coordinated grants and the Commissioned Service project portfolio.
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Eduardo Esteves joined the Technical team at ELIXIR Hub to support activities in Data and Compute Platforms.
Recommended reads
Gaps between Open Science activities and actual recognition systems: Insights from an international survey
An EOSC Future paper
The aim of this study was to identify perceptions and expectations of various research communities worldwide regarding how Open Science activities are formally recognised and rewarded. To achieve this, a global survey was conducted in the framework of the Research Data Alliance, recruiting 230 participants from five continents and 37 countries. The study found that, among various Open Science activities, Open or FAIR data management and sharing stood out as especially deserving of explicit recognition and credit. Open Science indicators in research evaluation and/or career progression processes emerged as the most preferred type of reward.
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Using text-mining to measure the scientific impact and legacy of ELIXIR, a distributed research infrastructure for life science data
An ELIXIR Italy paper
This paper presents methods to inventory research publications linked to ELIXIR that have received funding and support, as well as related citation metrics, used as performance metrics for these audiences. To overcome challenges inherent in ELIXIRs distributed structure, a semi-automated approach, consisting of text-mining followed by manual curation, is presented. Concrete examples are provided of downstream uses of the inventoried publications and their citations, both for ELIXIR as a whole and for the Italian case study. The methods are sufficiently generic and pragmatic enough to be readily adapted by other similar research infrastructures.
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Updates from Nodes
de.NBI Spring School 2025 Bioinformatics for lipidomics
Application deadline: 10 February 2025
24 - 28 March 2025 | Bielefeld, Germany
The de.NBI Spring School 2025 will concentrate on lipidomics bioinformatics, providing participants with in-depth knowledge and practical experience in this dynamic field. Throughout the training, attendees will explore state-of-the-art bioinformatics tools essential for lipidomics research.
More information and registration
Call for abstracts for the [BC] Basel Computational Biology Conference
Submission deadline: 27 February 2025
8 - 10 September 2025 | Basel, Switzerland
The [BC] Basel Computational Biology Conference, organized by the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, is Switzerlands leading bioinformatics event.
The 2025 edition, themed "Bioinformatics meets AI: shaping the future of data-driven biology," will feature sessions on cutting-edge topics like cancer research, infectious diseases, and AI in clinical data science, along with tutorials and workshops, poster sessions, and networking opportunities.
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
SIB course: First steps with R in life sciences
3 - 4 February 2025 | Basel. Switzerland
SIB course: Long-read sequence analysis
27 - 28 February 2025 | Bern, Switzerland
SIB course: Multiomics data analysis and integration
6 - 7 March 2025 | Geneva, Switzerland
de.NBI course: Awareness in Data Management and Analysis for Industry and Research
6 - 7 March 2025 | Online
SIB course: First steps with Python in life sciences
11 - 13 March 2025 | Lausanne, Switzerland
SIB course: Enrichment analysis
14 March 2025 | Online
SIB course: Single-cell transcriptomics with R
18 - 20 March 2025 | Bern, Switzerland
EMBL-EBI course: Data science for life scientists
16 - 20 June 2025 | EMBL-EBI, UK
EMBL-EBI course: Data visualisation for biology
24 - 26 June 2025 | EMBL-EBI, UK
EMBL-EBI course: Systems biology: from large datasets to biological insight
7 - 11 July 2025 | EMBL-EBI, UK
ELIXIR Events and Conferences
ELIXIR 3D BioInfo Community F2F/hybrid meeting
19-21 March 2025 | Hybrid - Barcelona, Spain
ELIXIR Microbiome Community F2F/hybrid meeting
09-10 April 2025 | Hybrid - Barcelona, Spain
ELIXIR Biodiversity Community F2F/hybrid meeting
10-11 April 2025 | Hybrid - Barcelona, Spain
ELIXIR All Hands 2025
2-5 June 2025 | Thessaloniki, Greece
Job vacancies
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