This week's highlights
New staff in the Hub
Magda Chegkazi joins ELIXIR Hub Human Genomics and Translational Data team as a Programme Manager. She will take responsibility for organising the delivery and impact of our portfolio of projects, ensuring consistency and synergies across the portfolio.
ELIXIR director recruitment opens
The position of ELIXIR Director is open for applications, with the process overseen by a Director Search Committee on behalf of the ELIXIR Board. The deadline for applications is 9am BST on Monday 7th August 2023.
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Recommended reads
Introducing untargeted data-independent acquisition for metaproteomics of complex microbial samples
An ELIXIR Finland paper
Mass spectrometry-based metaproteomics is a relatively new field of research that enables the characterization of the functionality of microbiota. Here, the authors introduce an untargeted DIA metaproteomics tool that does not require any DDA data, but instead generates a pseudospectral library directly from the DIA data. This reduces the amount of required mass spectrometry data to a single DIA run per sample. The new DIA-only metaproteomics approach is implemented as a new open-source software package named glaDIAtor, including a modern web-based graphical user interface to facilitate wide use of the tool by the community.
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DIANA-microT 2023: including predicted targets of virally encoded miRNAs
An ELIXIR Greece paper
DIANA-microT-CDS is a state-of-the-art miRNA target prediction algorithm catering the scientific community since 2009. Its current version, DIANA-microT 2023, brings forward a significantly updated set of interactions. DIANA-microT-CDS has been executed utilizing annotation information from Ensembl v102, miRBase 22.1 and MirGeneDB 2.1, yielding more than 83 million interactions in various species. Numerous resources have been interconnected into DIANA-microT and the server interface allows users to use smart filtering options, identify abundance patterns of interest, pinpoint known SNPs residing on binding sites and obtain miRNA-disease information.
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Updates from Nodes
FAIRification framework: making your data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable
The FAIRplus consortium, including EMBL-EBI and pharmaceutical companies, launched a new FAIR Cookbook and FAIRification framework, supporting organisations and projects undertaking a FAIR transformation.
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Report from the Health-RI & EOSC-Life Workshop
On 13 & 14 June, Health-RI and EOSC-Life organised the hybrid workshop Bridging the gap between researchers and the Health & Life Sciences research infrastructures - Showcasing EATRIS, BBMRI, ECRIN and ELIXIR tools & resources. The report and presentation slides of the workshop are now available online.
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Updates from Communities
ELIXIR Single Cell Omics Community: Call for new co-lead
Deadline: 7 August 2023
The ELIXIR Single Cell Omics Community is looking for one new co-lead to join the Community leadership team (Eija Korpelainen & Naveed Ishaque). Candidates should submit a short statement of their background and what they believe they will bring to the role.
A big thank you to Paulo Czarnewski for his work as a co-lead and we wish him all the best as he moves to a new role.
For any questions or nominations, please contact clare.garrard [at] elixir-europe.org (Clare Garrard)
Provide your feedback on the emerging Microbiome Community White Paper
Deadline: 11 August 2023
The emerging ELIXR Microbiome Community is presenting its White Paper draft for consultation and feedback. Please add your comments directly to the pdf document or send to clare.garrard [at] elixir-europe.org%C2%A0">Clare Garrard
Updates from other initatives
What is a Research Software Engineer? A definition by the Netherlands eScience Center
Netherlands eScience Center published two documents (Role description and Job profile) on Zenodo describing the role of a research software engineer in the research fields.
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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
de.NBI Spring School: Big Data Analysis for Life Sciences
25-29 September 2023 | Bielefeld, Germany
EMBL-EBI training: Systems biology: from large datasets to biological insight
23 - 27 October 2023
EMBL-EBI training: Managing a bioinformatics core facility
7 - 9 November 2023
EMBL-EBI training: Genome bioinformatics: from short- to long-read sequencing
20 - 24 November 2023
ELIXIR Events and Conferences
Emerging Microbiome/Marine Metagenomics Community meeting
12-13 September 2023 | Hybrid - Barcelona, Spain
Biodiversity Community F2F & Implementation Study meeting
13-15 September 2023 | Hybrid - Barcelona, Spain
BioHackathon Europe 2023
30 October - 3 November 2023 | Barcelona, Spain
Job vacancies
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ELIXIR Director
ELIXIR Hub
Assistant Professor in Plant Systems, Computational or Synthetic Biology
Maastricht University
PhD position (m/f/d) in Evolutionary Genomics of Vertebrates
Senckenberg Gesellschaft fr Naturforschung
Project manager Data Analysis
VIB
Network and Security Engineer
VIB