This week's highlights
Submit your All Hands meeting slides or posters on F1000
Deadline: 9 September 2024
Did you present slides or a poster at the All Hands Meeting 2024? Please submit to the All Hands Gateway area on F1000 by 9 September for inclusion in the meeting report.
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Recommended reads
Microbial co-occurrence network demonstrates spatial and climatic trends for global soil diversity
A paper supported by ELIXIR
Using data from the Earth Microbiome Project, this research analyses a meta-community co-occurrence network for bacterial communities. This method unveils substantial shifts in topological features, highlighting regional and climatic trends. Arid, Polar, and Tropical zones show lower diversity but maintain denser networks, whereas Temperate and Cold zones display higher diversity alongside more modular networks. In conclusion, the study identifies significant correlations between microbial interactions in diverse climatic regions, contributing valuable insights into the intricate dynamics of soil microbiota.
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Benchmarking second-generation methods for cell-type deconvolution of transcriptomic data
An ELIXIR Denmark paper
Using five single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) datasets, the researchers generate pseudo-bulk mixtures to evaluate the combined impact of these factors. Both bulk deconvolution methodologies and those that use scRNA-seq data as reference perform best when applied to data in linear scale and the choice of normalization has a dramatic impact on some, but not all methods. Overall, methods that use scRNA-seq data have comparable performance to the best performing bulk methods whereas semi-supervised approaches show higher error values.
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Updates from Nodes
Follow ELIXIR Finland on LinkedIn
ELIXIR Finland is now on LinkedIn, follow them to get the latest news of the Node.
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HDR UK & ELIXIR-UK Joint Hackathon
12-14 February 2025 | Nottingham, UK
Proposal submission deadline: 27 September 2024
HDR UK and ELIXIR-UK are holding a Joint Hackathon in February 2025 to bring together UK professionals in health data and life sciences to tackle shared technical challenges across the ecosystem. Submit a proposal if you have an idea that needs a little push and want to engage in brainstorming, hands-on coding and networking.
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Updates from Communities
Systems Biology for ELIXIR (SYBEL) webinar
5 September 2024 | 15:00 - 16:00 CEST
This webinar is part of the 2023 Systems Biology for ELIXIR (SYBEL) Commissioned Service presented by the ELIXIR Systems Biology Community. Join the webinar to learn more about single-to-noise ratio characterisation and annotation of multi-omics experiments.
More information and registration
Updates from Focus Groups
DOME webinar
24 September 2024 | 13:00 - 14:00 CEST
This webinar is part of the Machine Learning Focus Group activities. The webinar will focus on DOME, a set of community-wide guidelines, recommendations and checklists that aims to help establish standards of supervised machine learning validation in biology.
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: Introduction to bulk RNA-Seq: from quality control to pathway analysis
19 - 20 September 2024 | Zurich, Switzerland
VIB course: Research Data Management: your ally on the way to your publication
1, 8, 22 October 2024 | Ghent, Belgium
VIB course: Docker and Apptainer (Singularity) for reproducible and automated data analysis
14 - 15 October 2024 | Leuven, Belgium
SIB course: Ensuring more accurate, generalisable, and interpretable Machine Learning models for bioinformatics
15 October 2024 | Online
SIB course: Version Control with Git
16 - 17 October 2024 | Bern, Switzerland
SIB course: Single-Cell transcriptomics with R
29 - 31 October 2024 | Bellinzona, Switzerland
SIB course: Introduction to Containers and Snakemake for reproducible research
21-22 October 2024 | Bern, Switzerland
SIB course: Open and reusable research: boost the value of your data
23-24 October 2024 | Lausanne, Switzerland
SIB course: When immunology meets bioinformatics
25 October 2024 | Bern, Switzerland
EMBL-EBI course: Single-cell RNA-seq analysis with Python
17 - 21 February 2025 | Online
EMBL-EBI course: Introduction to multi-omics data integration and visualisation
3 - 7 March 2025 | Hinxton, UK
ELIXIR Events and Conferences
ECCB 2024
16 - 20 September 2024 | Turku, Finland
ELIXIR Single-Cell Omics Community meeting
16 - 17 September 2024 | Helsinki, 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
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
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