Weekly Brief, 27 May 2024

This week's highlights

New version of ELIXIR Handbook of Operations

ELIXIR has published version 7 of its Handbook of Operations. The Handbook acts as a single reference point for ELIXIRs operational structure, including standard procedures and processes.

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New Domestic Animals Genome and Phenome Focus Group

A new ELIXIR Focus Group has been created in the area of domestic animal genomics and phenomics research. The group will promote and align tools, databases, standards and best practices, and consider the case for the formation of an ELIXIR Community.

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Recommended reads

Molecular and phylogenetic characterization of the monkeypox outbreak in the South of Spain

An ELIXIR-ES paper

Until the May 2022 Monkeypox outbreak spread rapidly to many non-endemic countries. The virus was considered a viral zoonosis limited to some African countries. The Andalusian circuit of genomic surveillance was rapidly applied to characterize the MPXV outbreak in the South of Spain. Whole genome sequencing of a total of 160 MPXV viruses from the different provinces that reported cases were obtained. In general, a low number of mutations were observed in the sequences reported. The samples likely correspond to several introductions of the circulating MPXV viruses from the last outbreak.

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An assessment of the informative value of data sharing statements in clinical trial registries

A BY-COVID paper

The provision of data sharing statements (DSS) for clinical trials has been made mandatory by different stakeholders. This study showed that the current DSS that implies possible data sharing are not easy to interpret. Machine learning and/or natural language processing techniques might improve machine actionability, but would represent a very substantial investment of research effort. The cheaper and easier option would be for data providers, data requestors, funders and platforms to adopt a more structured approach to specifying, providing and collecting DSS.

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Updates from Nodes

Calling data resource users for feedback

Deadline: 7 June 2024

EMBL-EBI is asking data resource users to fill in a survey to help shape the future of the open data resources managed by the institute.

Fill out the survey

NuGOweek 2024: Integrating nutritional omics into a healthy diet

2 - 5 September 2024 | Ghent, Belgium

NuGOs annual conference is a gathering of researchers in the fields of molecular nutrition, personalised nutrition, and nutritional systems biology. This year, the 20th anniversary edition of NuGOweek is hosted by the Laboratory of Integrative Metabolomics of Ghent University focusing on the topic of integrating nutritional omics into a healthy diet.

More information and registration

Updates from Platforms

Cloud 4 Bio: Weekly hackathon on Cloud Services and Web Applications for Cancer Research

29 May 2024 | 15:30 - 16:30 CEST | Online

The webinar involves talks from the ELIXIR-led EOSC ENTRUST project and the NIH STRIDES team. People interested in Trusted Research Environments and sensitive data access, particularly Compute Platform WP3 partners, are welcome to join.

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Updates from Communities

Biodiversity bioinformatics: from large-scale phylogenomics to gene families and functions

26-28 August 2024 | Lausanne, Switzerland

The Biodiversity Community is organising this course to provide insights into how ELIXIR and SIB Core Data Resources can be used to gain hands-on experience in comparative genomic analyses, with an emphasis on characterising protein-coding gene evolution and function across multiple animal genomes, both from model and non-model species.

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Updates from other initiatives

GOBLET presentation for the 2024 Global Bioinformatics Education Summit

Celia van Gelder (Health-RI), GOBLET Chair, gave an introduction to GOBLET during the 6th Global Bioinformatics Education Summit. The slide is now available on Zenodo.

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The CHAIMELEON project re-identification Challenge

May - August 2024

The CHAIMELEON project is calling on AI4HI and EUCAIM innovators to join a challenge to tackle one of the most pressing issues in todays digital landscape ensuring the protection of personal data.

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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

ELIXIR Events and Conferences

ELIXIR All Hands 2024
10-12 June 2024 | Uppsala, Sweden

ECCB 2024
16-20 September 2024 | Turku, Finland

ELIXIR Data Platform F2F 2024
1 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
 

Scientific Database Curator

EMBL EBI

Junior Professorship in AI and Multiscale Modeling in Biology and Bio-medicine

University of Montpellier / CNRS / INSERM

Postdoc in Biomedical NLP

University of Nottingham

Bioinformatician Phylogenomics

DSMZ

Developer SILVA database

DSMZ