This week's highlights
Open call: ELIXIR Node industry engagement days pilot programme
1 February - 31 April 2023
Nodes with an emerging interest in industry engagement are invited to host a day to connect with their national industry ecosystem and explore industry engagement based on the Nodes strategic goals and priorities.
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Nodes already engaged with their national industry ecosystem are advised to consider hosting an Innovation and SME Forum scheme.
New ELIXIR Policy brief
A preprint as part of the Impact Strategic Implementation Study
The road to success: drawing parallels between 'road' and 'research data' infrastructures to foster understanding between service providers, funders and policymakers
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Join the next webinar on ELIXIR Communities in the Tech Team Webinar series
- Introductions
- Overview
- Current activities
- 2024 Programme
Speaker: Katharina Heil
More information and registration
Recommended reads
Towards FAIRification of sensitive and fragmented rare disease patient data
A European Joint Programme on Rare Diseases paper
To support the 24 European Reference Networks (ERNs) in clinical decision making and to harmonise FAIRification, a FAIRification steward team worked with researchers from the European Joint Programme on Rare Diseases. We show that a dedicated team of FAIR data stewards improves the FAIRness of data in a large organisation with multiple stakeholders, and multi-levelled training activities are required to accommodate the diverse needs of the ERNs.
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3D-Beacons: Decreasing the sequence/structure gap with federated protein structure data resources
A BioHackathon paper
To make data from a large array of model providers more easily accessible to the broader scientific community, we established 3D-Beacons, a collaborative initiative to create a federated network with unified data access mechanisms. The 3D-Beacons Network allows researchers to collate coordinate files and metadata for experimentally determined and theoretical protein models from state-of-the-art and specialist model providers and also from the Protein Data Bank.
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Updates from Nodes
Data Stewards Interest Group (DTL DSIG) meeting
16 February 2023 | 10:15-12:00 CET
The CaRe & DaRe project, which is developing a novel decentralized procedure for the reuse of qualitative data, will be presented in the meeting, including a discussion on best practices for qualitative data sharing from various disciplines.
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Updates from Platforms
Recommended Interoperability Resource selection process
Opens 13 February
The 2023 ELIXIR RIR process will open in February with an Expression of Interest call for resources that facilitate FAIR-supporting activities in scientific research.
We invite all Nodes and resource stakeholders to consider which resources they may wish to submit for review. For questions, contact Clare Garrard.
Selection criteria and RIR timeline
Core Data Resource selection process
Opens 13 March
The Hub has provided a short recorded update for biodata resource stakeholders interested in applying for the ELIXIR CDR 2023 selection process.
- Biodata resource eligibility criteria
- Outline of first steps of the process
Further communications will be sent directly to Node leads in advance of the call opening. For questions, contact: Gavin Farrell.
Recording and slides
Updates from Communities
Improvements in Galaxy accessibility
Find out all about accessibility improvements in the upcoming 23.0 Galaxy release
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Updates from Other Initiatives
BY-COVID hackathon for making data discoverable through the COVID-19 Data Portal
Participants will learn how to provide a metadata file for making content of a data resource discoverable through the COVID-19 Data Portal.
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RDA/EOSC Future call: Optimising (RDA) open science frameworks and guidelines Round 2
Closes 20 February
This call invites applications from research groups to demonstrate how RDA-developed data sharing concepts and solutions can be reused, optimised and implemented, particularly in the context of the European Open Science Cloud Portal Catalogue and Marketplace.
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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
CINECA webinar: Federated analysis for polygenic risk score calculations
31 January 2023 | 16:00-17:00 CET | Online
BioSB Series: Constraint-based modeling
13-17 February 2023 | Wageningen, the Netherlands
BioSB HotTopics Symposium: Evolution in and of Cell Communities
15 February 2023 | 9:30-18:00 | Amsterdam, the Netherlands
SIB course: NGS - Genome Variant Analysis
20-21 February 2023 | Bern, Switzerland
SIB course: First Steps with Python in Life Sciences
1-3 March 2023 | Lausanne, Switzerland
BioSB Series: Knowledge graphs in the life sciences
13-17 March 2023 | Wageningen, the Netherlands
ELIXIR Events and Conferences
Compute Platform 2023 F2F meeting
7-8 February 2023 | Helsinki, Finland
Training Platform 2023 F2F meeting
7-9 March 2023 | Hybrid - Rome, Italy
ELIXIR All Hands 2023
5-8 June 2023 | Dublin, Ireland
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
DevOps Engineer
PNED G.I.E.
Data Curator / Analyst
PNED G.I.E.
Communications Officer
PNED G.I.E.
Junior Lecturer VU/UvA masters programme Bioinformatics and Systems Biology JD
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
2 Bioinformatics postdoctoral researchers - RAMON Y CAJAL GRANTS
Fundacin Progreso y Salud (FPS)