This week's highlights
ELIXIR All Hands 2025 call for workshops
Deadline: 20 January 2025
ELIXIR All Hands 2025 is 2-5 June 2025 in Thessaloniki, Greece. The call for for workshops is now open.
Proposed workshops should build connections between different areas of ELIXIR, encouraging groups to participate and engage with the work.
All Hands 2025
Workshop submission link
BioHackathon Europe 2024 returns to Barcelona
BioHackathon Europe brings together bioinformaticians from around the world to work collaboratively on various hacking projects. This year, it was in Barcelona, Spain, with 180 in-person participants and over 140 online, hacking through 30 bioinformatics projects.
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New job vacancy at ELIXIR Hub
The ELIXIR Hub is looking for a Senior Science Officer with experience in research software. This role will help shape ELIXIR's long-term strategy in research software and computational infrastructure.
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Recommended reads
Application of orthology and network biology to infer gene functions in non-model plants
An ELIXIR Belgium paper
In non-model plant species, the functional annotation of the gene space is largely based on homology, with the assumption that genes with shared common ancestry have conserved functions. This paper discusses different resources that integrate plant gene function information. Different approaches that support the functional annotation of gene products, based on orthology or network biology, are described. While sequence-based tools to characterise the functional landscape in non-model species are maturing and becoming more readily available, easy-to-use network-based methods inferring plant gene functions are not as prevalent and have limited functionality.
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Loss of ADAR1 protein induces changes in small RNA landscape in hepatocytes
An ELIXIR Czech Republic paper
To study the effect of ADAR1 function in hepatocytes, the researchers have created Huh7.5 ADAR1 KO cell lines. This research analysed translatome changes by using a method based on sequencing of separate polysome profile RNA fractions. The most prominent changes found include negatively affected transcription by RNA polymerase III and the deregulation of snoRNA and Y RNA levels. ADAR1 KO polysomes are enriched in mRNAs coding for proteins pivotal in a wide range of biological processes such as RNA localization and RNA processing, whereas the unbound fraction is enriched mainly in mRNAs coding for ribosomal proteins and translational factors.
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Updates from Nodes
[BC] Basel Computational Biology Conference 2025 call for proposals
Deadline: 7 January 2025
[BC] 2025 will kick off on 8 September 2025, with a day of tutorials and workshops at the Biozentrum. The organisers invite proposals for full-day and half-day sessions, which share expertise, engage participants and enhance the conference programme.
Health-RI exchange offers insights into shaping a national BioCommons
In October 2024, ELIXIR UK and its initiative, BioFAIR, held a knowledge exchange event with Health-RI (ELIXIR Netherlands) to refine governance and operational strategies for national research data infrastructures.
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MassiveFold a tool to unlock the full potential of AlphaFold
MassiveFold is an optimised, flexible version of AlphaFold that addresses the challenges of large-scale sampling for protein assemblies and has been developed with the support of the IFB.
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New one-hour e-learning course: Metadata in bioinformatics
In one hour, learn what metadata are, the main elements of metadata, common uses in bioinformatics and why metadata are essential.
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Updates from Communities
Register for the 3D BioInfo Community meeting
19-21 March 2025 | Barcelona, Spain
Deadline for abstracts: 15 December 2024
Registration deadline: 1 March 2025
The 3D-BioInfo Community meeting will take place in March 2025 as part of a joint event with 3DSIG COSI from ISCB. The meeting aims to bring together structural bioinformatics researchers from two communities for networking and to exchange ideas on the workflows and resources needed to exploit the transformative new developments in the data and methods.
More information and registration
RDM training showcase: Audience activation and lessons learned
11 December 2024 | 13:00 - 14:00 CET | Online
This webinar will showcase RDM training examples from the speakers online and face-to-face training experiences in the context of participant engagement. Join the webinar to collaborate, share insights and improve the curation of RDM training materials.
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Updates from other initiatives
Workshop: Unlock the power of your research data for global impact
6 February 2025 | 10:00 - 12:00 CET | Online
The EVORA project is holding its first RDM workshop to enhance the global availability of data in virology. The workshop will introduce key RDM principles and practical tools for life sciences, including the ELIXIR RDMkit and the ENA Upload Tool.
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Join the next GA4GH fireside chat
25 November 2024 | 16:00 - 17:00 CET | Online
In the next GA4GH fireside chat, Bartha Knoppers of McGill University and Gerardo Jimnez-Snchez of Genmica Mdica will discuss the landscape and future of genomics, delving into how genomics has transformed public health in Mexico and the broader Latin American region, the importance of diversity in genomic datasets and building trust with communities.
PHENET webinar series
November/December 2024 | Online
ELIXIR is part of the PHENET project, which is developing tools and methods for extended plant phenotyping and enviro-typing services of European research infrastructures. Check out their upcoming webinar series.
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
de.NBI training course: DNA methylation: Design to discovery
5 & 6 December 2024 | Saarbrcken, Germany
de.NBI training course: Differential analysis of quantitative proteomics data using R
12 - 13 December 2024 | Online
de.NBI training course: Computational design and directed evolution of therapeutic peptides
16-20 December 2024 | Leipzig, Germany
de.NBI training course: Mastering research data management for human data: safeguarding sensitive information and elevating data security
23-24 January 2025 | online
SIB course: Introduction to statistics with R
27-29 January 2025 | Lausanne, Switzerland
EMBL-EBI course: Applications for gene-environment interactions in human health and disease
17 - 21 March 2025 | EMBL-EBI, UK
EMBL-EBI course: Microscopy data analysis: machine learning and the BioImage Archive
31 March - 4 April 2025 | Online
EMBL-EBI course: Cancer genomics and transcriptomics
12 - 16 May 2025 | Online
EMBL-EBI course: Introduction to metabolomics analysis
20 - 23 May 2025 | EMBL-EBI, UK
ELIXIR Events and Conferences
ICRI side event: Euro-Australian research infrastructure collaboration in the molecular life sciences
6 December 2025 | Hybrid - Brisbane, Australia
ELIXIR 3D BioInfo Community F2F/hybrid meeting
19-21 March 2025 | Hybrid - Barcelona, Spain
ELIXIR All Hands 2025
2-5 June 2025 | Thessaloniki, Greece
Job vacancies
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