This week's highlights
Browse ELIXIR's 2023 Annual Report
ELIXIR has released its tenth Annual Report, summarising the achievements of the 22 Nodes in the final year of the 2019-2023 Scientific Programme.
Thanks go to all of ELIXIR for their hard work during 2023, and we hope you enjoy exploring the report.
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Demystifying ELIXIR webinar
11 July | 15-16 CET
If you missed the successful All Hands workshop, then join us online for a rerun, followed by Q&A.
The webinar is targetted at those with two or less years of experience in ELIXIR, but all are welcome. It will be recorded for those unable to attend.
More information and registration
BioHackathon registration opens at 12:00 CET today
4-8 November 2024 | Campus Belloch, Barcelona, Spain
The BioHackathon Europe brings together bioinformaticians from around the world offering an intense week of hacking on diverse and exciting projects. This year, there are 32 accepted projects which can be found on the BioHackathon website.
More information and registration
Recommended reads
How to increase the findability, visibility, and impact of Galaxy tools for your scientific community
A BioHackathon Europe preprint
Here, we present a semi-automated and reusable pipeline for creating tailored interactive tables that list the identity and metadata (e.g. bio.tools, EDAM) available for Galaxy tools in a specific community (e.g. microGalaxy, imaging). In addition, we also describe an annotation framework to improve the quality of the table contents, and training material to support the reuse of both the pipeline and table by additional communities.
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CAFA-evaluator: a Python tool for benchmarking ontological classification methods
An ELIXIR Italy paper
Updates from Nodes
Submit your project proposals for the BioHackathon Germany
Deadline 1 July
This year's BioHackathon Germany is in Kassel from 9-13 December, with remote access available for those unable to attend in person. Submit your project proposal by 1 July by email to contact@denbi.de.
More information
Updates from Platforms
ELIXIR AAI community engagement call
28 June | 13-14 CET
Join the next AAI community engagement call held by the ELIXIR AAI-focused work package of the ELIXIR Compute Platform (WP2).
You will learn about other infrastructures, communities and projects utilising the Life Science Login authentication and authorization capabilities. We will introduce how BBMRI-ERIC, INSTRUCT-ERIC, EUCAIM, GDI, EJP-RD, canSERV, Health-RI and others use LS AAI.
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
Train-the-Trainer course
3-5 July 2024 | Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
SIB course: Make your Research FAIRer with Quarto, GitHub and Zenodo
12 July 2024 | Online
Biodiversity bioinformatics: from large-scale phylogenomics to gene families and functions
26-28 August 2024 | Lausanne, Switzerland
Workshop: Upskilling and training users in science and research
24 - 25 September 2024 | Madrid, Spain
EMBL-EBI: Managing a bioinformatics core facility
29-31 October 2024 | EMBL-EBI, UK
ELIXIR Events and Conferences
ECCB 2024
16-20 September 2024 | Turku, Finland
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
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 Full Stack Developer
EMBL-EBI
Biocurator
EMBL-EBI
Genome Analysis Team Leader
EMBL-EBI
Research Data Scientist
University of Exeter
Postdoctoral Research Scientist / Research Associate
Earlham Institute