Weekly Brief, 23 January 2023

This week's highlights

ELIXIR launches two new Communities

Two new Communities have been formed in ELIXIR, representing the fields of systems biology and single-cell omics. Both fields of research are rapidly developing and have great potential to help with challenges in health, climate change and food security.

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ELIXIR Innovation and SME Forum: AI in health research

13 April 2023 | Utrecht, the Netherlands

This April, ELIXIR is holding the Innovation and SME Forum in Utrecht, the Netherlands. The event provides a platform for experts who work on AI in the healthcare sector to discuss challenges and opportunities in health digitalisation and data-driven innovation.

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ELIXIR 2023 Communities Handbook published

An updated version of the ELIXIR 2023 Communities Handbook has been published, applicable under the current ELIXIR Programme 2019 - 2023.

The Communities Handbook tells you what a Community is, who can join, what the benefits are, and how Communities are structured.

Read the ELIXIR 2023 Communities Handbook

PathOS case study on Innovation from open Research resources

In this short interview, ELIXIRs team demonstrates how open bioinformatics resources can foster innovation and contribute to open science indicators.

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Recommended reads

The ProteomeXchange consortium at 10 years: 2023 update

ELIXIR Implementation Studies

Mass spectrometry (MS) is by far the most used experimental approach in high-throughput proteomics. The ProteomeXchange (PX) consortium of proteomics resources was originally set up to standardize data submission and dissemination of public MS proteomics data. In this manuscript, the authors describe the main developments in PX since the previous update manuscript in Nucleic Acids Research was published in 2020. The authors also highlight that data re-use activities of public datasets continue to increase, enabling connections between PX resources and other popular bioinformatics resources, novel research and also new data resources. Finally, the article summarises the current state-of-the-art in data management practices for sensitive human proteomics data.

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Extension of the shelf-life of fresh pasta using modified atmosphere packaging and bioprotective cultures

ELIXIR-IT | ELIXIR-CONVERGE paper

This study aimed at improving the microbial quality, safety, and shelf life of fresh pasta using modified atmosphere composition and packaging with or without the addition of bioprotective cultures into semolina. The results support that, although bioprotective cultures were not all able to grow in tested conditions, they can control the spoilage and the associated food-borne microbiota in fresh pasta during storage by their antimicrobials and/or fermentation products synergically. The use of the proposed MAP system and the addition of bioprotective cultures can be considered an industrial helpful strategy to reduce the quality loss during refrigerated storage and to increase the shelf life of fresh pasta for additional 30 days.

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Updates from Nodes

ELIXIR Infrastructure for Data and Services to strengthen Life-Sciences Research in Flanders (2023-2026)

The Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) awarded the ELIXIR Belgium consortium a 4-year grant of 7.8M to continue to operate the Belgian ELIXIR Node, providing services to life science researchers. This infrastructure funding allows the partners to expand and improve our portfolio of services.

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New training opportunities from ELIXIR-Belgium

In 2023, ELIXIR Belgium offers some new training courses!

Check the website for training opportunities

News from the Health-RI FAIR Data Implementation team

The Health-RI Demonstrator and Data champions portfolios are now online.
Read the blog on the website
A blog was published on all the activities undertaken by the team together with the Health-RI regional nodes in 2022
Read the blog

Updates from Communities

ELIXIR Toxicology Community: Call for one new co-lead

Deadline: 6 March 2023

The ELIXIR Toxicology Community is looking for one new co-lead to join the current Community leadership team (Rob Stierum, Egon Willighagen and Marvin Martens). Candidates should submit a short statement of their background and what they believe they will bring to the role.

Thank you to Chris Evelo and for his co-leadership and for helping to establish the Community.

For any questions or nominations, please contact clare.garrard [at] elixir-europe.org (Clare Garrard)

More information

Updates from Other Initiatives

Survey on European citizens Cancer Research priorities & expectations

This survey has been developed within the context of the 4.UNCAN.eu initiative with the contribution of the European Cancer Patient Coalition (ECPC) and the Childhood Cancer International Europe (CCIE), with the purpose of evaluating the level of scientific literacy among European citizens and their perception of the importance of cancer research.

Fill out the survey by 20 February 2023

Open Call for European FAIR Champions

FAIR-IMPACT is looking for Champions who have broad expertise in FAIR policy and/or practice, bring strong research data advocacy experience and excellent communications skills, are driven to help mobilise others to generate more FAIR data on policy and/or practice level, and are keen to share best practices.

Apply by 10 March 2023

PerMedCoE summer school: from pathway modelling tools to cell-level simulations

Applications are now open for the PerMedCoE Summer School on pathway modelling tools and cell-level simulations, which will take place near Barcelona (Spain) on the 25-30 June 2023. Five days of lectures, tutorials, networking and project work to gain first-hand experience in using diverse biomedical modelling tools.

Apply by 6 March 2023

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

PerMedCoE webinar: Data-driven modelling of intercellular interactions in the tumour microenvironment
25 January 2023 | 15:00-16:00 CET | Online

6th Advanced in silico Drug Design workshop/challenge 2023
30 January-2 February 2023 | Olomouc, Czech Republic

CINECA webinar: Federated analysis for polygenic risk score calculations
31 January 2023 | 16:00-17:00 CET | Online

BioSB Series: Constraint-based modeling
13-17 February 2023 | Wageningen, the Netherlands

BioSB HotTopics Symposium: Evolution in and of Cell Communities
15 February 2023 | 9:30-18:00 | Amsterdam, the Netherlands

SIB course: NGS - Genome Variant Analysis
20-21 February 2023 | Bern, Switzerland

SIB course: First Steps with Python in Life Sciences
1-3 March 2023 | Lausanne, Switzerland

BioSB Series: Knowledge graphs in the life sciences
13-17 March 2023 | Wageningen, the Netherlands

ELIXIR Events and Conferences

Compute Platform 2023 F2F meeting
7-8 February 2023 | Helsinki, Finland

Training Platform 2023 F2F meeting
7-9 March 2023 | Hybrid - Rome, Italy

ELIXIR All Hands 2023
5-8 June 2023 | Dublin, Ireland

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

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