Weekly Brief, 3 June 2024

This week's highlights

ELIXIR STEERS WP2 & WP3 face to face meeting

2 - 3 October 2024 | Padova, Italy

ELIXIR STEERS project WP2 and WP3 will hold a face to face meeting to discuss and finalise milestones of the project.

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Recommended reads

DS-PACK: Tool assembly for the end-to-end support of controlled access human data sharing

An ELIXIR-LU paper

The EU GDPR requirements have prompted a shift from centralised controlled access genome-phenome archives to federated models for sharing sensitive human data. In a data-sharing federation, a central node facilitates data discovery; meanwhile, distributed nodes are responsible for handling data access requests, concluding agreements with data users and providing secure access to the data. The DS-PACK tool assembly is a reusable, open-source middleware solution that semi-automates controlled access processes end-to-end, from data submission to access. DS-PACK is in production use at the ELIXIR Luxembourg data hosting platform, combined with an operational model including legal facilitation and data stewardship.

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Detection of ribonucleotides embedded in DNA by Nanopore sequencing

An ELIXIR-IT paper

The available sequencing technologies only allow indirect deduction of the genomic location of rNMPs. The authors of the paper synthesised two types of DNA molecules containing rNMPs at known or random positions and we developed data analysis pipelines for DNA-embedded ribonucleotides detection by ONT. This paper reports that ONT can identify all four ribonucleotides incorporated in DNA by capturing rNMPs-specific alterations in nucleotide alignment features, current intensity, and dwell time. The authors propose that ONT may be successfully employed to directly map rNMPs in genomic DNA and we suggest a strategy to build an ad hoc basecaller to analyse native genomes.


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Updates from Nodes

SIB is central to Switzerlands standing in life science

A working group created at the initiative of the Foundation Councils President Simone de Montmollin was tasked to identify the unique contributions of SIB for Switzerland and its life science and health community.

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Updates from Platforms

ELIXIR Data Platform face to face

1 - 2 October 2024 | Padova, Italy

The Data Platform are pleased to invite ELIXIR members to join the annual ELIXIR Data Platform face-to-face event in Padova, Italy. The event will take place Tuesday 1-2 October 2024 over 1.5 days.

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Updates from Communities

3D-BioInfo Community webinar

18 June 2024 | 17:00 - 18:00 CEST

This webinar organised by ELIXIR 3D-BioInfo Community will cover the topic of the encyclopaedia of domains and the structural map of the human proteome.
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Updates from other initiatives

Second BioExcel conference on Advances in Biomolecular Simulations

20 - 23 October 2024 | Brno, Czech Republic

The event gathers the biomolecular research community to explore the latest trends, updates and challenges in the fields of biomolecular simulations, integrative modelling, free energy and drug design, workflows, automation and data integration.

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From open data to knowledge: enhancing European resilience to health crises

11 September 2024 | Brussels, Belgium

The BY-COVID project is hosting a high-level event entitled From open data to knowledge: enhancing European resilience to health crises to highlight and discuss the value of open data and showcase the impact of the project on science and society.

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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

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Research Software Engineer

RECETOX

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

Developer SILVA database

DSMZ