This week's highlights
Strategic collaboration between ELIXIR and Euro-BioImaging
The strategic collaboration between ELIXIR and Euro-BioImaging ERIC, the European research infrastructure for biological and biomedical imaging, has been renewed with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding. ELIXIR and Euro-BioImaging share a common vision to use the wealth of knowledge derived from combining imaging data and biomolecular data to enable excellent interdisciplinary research across Europe and globally.
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Online info session of the second edition of ELEAD
14 February 2025 | 16:00 CET
The applications to the second edition of ELIXIR Leadership And Diversity mentoring programme (ELEAD) will open on 10 - 28 February. The programme will start in May 2025 and run until December 2026.
An info session about the programme contents, schedule and ways to apply will be held virtually on 14 February 2025 at 16:00 CET.
Register to the online info session
More information on ELEAD programme
Recommended reads
PHI-base the multi-species pathogen-host interaction database in 2025
An ELIXIR-UK paper
PHI-base provides phenotypic annotation and genotypic information for both native and model host interactions, including gene alterations that do not alter the phenotype of the interaction. In this article, the authors describe major updates to PHI-base. This paper also describes the unification of data in PHI-base 4 with the data curated from a new curation workflow, which forms the first complete release of PHI-base version 5.0. Additionally, the authors describe adding support for the Frictionless Data framework to PHI-base 4 datasets, new ways of sharing interaction data with the Ensembl database, an analysis of the conserved orthologous genes in PHI-base, and the increasing variety of research studies that make use of PHI-base.
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MirGeneDB 3.0: improved taxonomic sampling, uniform nomenclature of novel conserved microRNA families and updated covariance models
An ELIXIR Norway paper
This paper presents a major update of MirGeneDB (3.0), the manually curated animal microRNA gene database. The inclusion of new species allowed researchers to refine the evolutionary node of appearance of a number of microRNA genes/families as well as MirGeneDBs phylogenetically informed nomenclature system. These enhanced annotations will allow researchers to analyse microRNA properties such as secondary structure and features of their biogenesis within a robust phylogenetic context and without the database plagued with numerous false positives and false negatives.
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Updates from Nodes
ELIXIR Finland celebrates 10 years of advancing life science research
The year 2024 marked a significant milestone: 10 years of ELIXIR Finland supporting life science researchers in Finland and connecting them to a European ELIXIR network.
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Watch ELIXIR Finlands 10-year anniversary video
Updates from Platforms
Core Data Resources (CDR) and Deposition Databases (EDD) Expression of Interest
Deadline: 14 March 2025
An Expression of Interest must be submitted before the deadline to be eligible for full application. This EoI should be a simple list of names of biodata resources sent by your respective Head of Node/Node leadership to core-resources@elixir-europe.org.
Please contact your relevant Node Coordinator if you wish your resource to be included.
ELIXIR Engagement AAI call
14 February 2025 | 14:00 - 15:00 CET
The topic for this ELIXIR Engagement AAI call will focus on the LS AAI Roadmap for 2025, outlining the strategic direction and planned developments for the upcoming year. Key topics will include the enhancements of LS AAI and planned migrations. This call is open to all members of the Life Science community interested in the Life Science AAI roadmap for 2025.
Meeting agenda (include Zoom link)
Updates from other initiatives
Survey on collecting the ways of doing mappings
FAIR-IMPACT project is drawing to a close, however, the project survey on mapping practices is still open. Those who produce, consume or are interested in mappings (including semantic artifacts, controlled vocabularies, ontologies, schema, etc.) are encouraged to participate.
Fill out the survey
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: Long-read sequence analysis
27 - 28 February 2025 | Bern, Switzerland
de.NBI course: Awareness in Data Management and Analysis for Industry and Research
6 - 7 March 2025 | Online
SIB course: First steps with Python in life sciences
11 - 13 March 2025 | Lausanne, Switzerland
SIB course: Enrichment analysis
14 March 2025 | Online
SIB course: Single-cell transcriptomics with R
18 - 20 March 2025 | Bern, Switzerland
EMBL-EBI course: Data science for life scientists
16 - 20 June 2025 | EMBL-EBI, UK
EMBL-EBI course: Data visualisation for biology
24 - 26 June 2025 | EMBL-EBI, UK
EMBL-EBI course: Systems biology: from large datasets to biological insight
7 - 11 July 2025 | EMBL-EBI, UK
ELIXIR Events and Conferences
ELIXIR 3D BioInfo Community F2F/hybrid meeting
19 - 21 March 2025 | Hybrid - Barcelona, Spain
ELIXIR Microbiome Community F2F/hybrid meeting
09 - 10 April 2025 | Hybrid - Barcelona, Spain
ELIXIR Biodiversity Community F2F/hybrid meeting
10 - 11 April 2025 | Hybrid - Barcelona, Spain
ELIXIR All Hands 2025
2 - 5 June 2025 | Thessaloniki, Greece
Job vacancies
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