Data For Life podcast
Episode one | Venture into standards lessons from the toilet paper industry
Hannes and Kathi welcome Maria Chatzou, CEO and Co-Founder of drug discovery startup Lifebit to the first interview of the Innovation series. In this episode, they explore Cambridge, one of the most important ecosystems for biodata-centred businesses and unveil Marias experience in this competitive fast-moving industry as both a successful bioinformatician and an entrepreneur.
Listen now to the first episode
Recommended Reads for the week
'Diversified regulation of circadian clock gene expression following whole genome duplication'
in PLoS Genetics
ELIXIR Norway contributed and supported this paper with relevant data (orthogroups and gene trees).
Read the paper
'Microbial Communities in Soils and Endosphere of Solanum tuberosum L. and their Response to Long-Term Fertilization'
in MPDI
The infrastructure support from ELIXIR-CZ was key for this study.
Read more
This Wednesday's ELIXIR Webinar
Systematic Access to Prokaryotic (Meta)Data: An Introduction to the BacDive Database
The Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase BacDive offers data on 81,827 bacterial and archaeal strains
Lorenz Reimer (Leibniz Institute DSMZ) will give an introduction to the more than 150 BacDive data fields and will illustrate how to use the different tools to find interesting datasets for your research.
Tip of the week
Did you know ELIXIR has multiple Twitter lists that compile all Nodes, Institute & personas?
Can you not find yourself? Write down your accounts on our shared document
Updates from Nodes
ELIXIR-NL Reading | 'WikiPathways: connecting communities'
Published in Nucleic Acids Research
The Dutch ELIXIR-NL resource WikiPathways have published their new overview paper.
Read more
A Virtual Human Platform receives 11 M funding
A Dutch, national consortium, led by Prof. Juliette Legler (University Utrecht), Cyrille Krul (HU) en Anne Kienhuis (RIVM) and including DTL and various DTL partners, has received 11 million euro in funding to develop a virtual human platform for risk assessment.
Find out more
Updates from Platforms
A summary of the Technical/Training Coordinators virtual meeting
23-25 November 2020
First day
The Training Coordinators evaluated the achievements of the four Tasks of the 2020 Training Platform work plan 2020, the implementation studies, the working groups and focus groups and the interactions with external projects and communities.
Second day
The Training Platform discussed the draft work plan 2022-23 and a writing team was initiated. The Technical Coordinators presented Nodes updates and reviewed COVID-19 activities.
Third day
The Technical and Training Coordinator groups joined to present topics of common interest. The Training Platform presented the Focus Groups (Machine Learning and FAIR Training), lessons learned from redesigning training for online delivery (by ELIXIR-PT), and the collaboration and interaction of the two groups
Read the agenda and the minutes
Updates from Communities
Galaxy organises a Global 5day Course
1519 February 2021 | Online
This online event will span across all time zones. All training sessions are pre-recorded, so you can work through them at your own pace, and manage your own time. A large community of GTN trainers will be available to answer all your queries.
The program covers a general introduction to the Galaxy platform, NGS Analysis (DNA-seq and RNA-seq), Proteomics, and also features a Choose-your-own-adventure day.
Discover more and register today Updates from other initiatives
EC to launch a new publishing Platform
Open Research Europe (ORE)
The EC will launch a new publishing platform, the Open Research Europe (ORE). It will be a scholarly publishing platform that will provide Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe beneficiaries with a no-cost full open access peer-reviewed publishing service
It will span across all fields of research
Read more
New issue of the GOBLET Newsletter
GOBLET has just released the second issue of their 2020 newsletter of 2020 has been published. It features the Summary of the GOBLET AGM 2020, the Education Summit 2020&dnash;2021, bioinformatics critical nad practical guides, and the GOBLET YouTube Channel
Read the newsletter
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. A link off to the TeSS portal
ELIXIR Webinar | Systematic Access to Prokaryotic (Meta)Data: An Introduction to the BacDive Database
2 December 2020 | 2 pm CET, Online
What is the value of FAIR data?
9 December 2020 | 10 am12 pm CET, Online
A guided tour through Cellosaurus
15 February 2021 | Online
Cellosaurus is a collection of all cell lines for biomedical research, from naturally immortal to invertebrate cell lines.
ELIXIR Events and Conferences
FAIRplus Innovation and SME Forum 2021
13 January 2021 | Online
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
Frontend Developer at the INB/ELIXIR-ES coordination node
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS)
Pathogen Project Lead
Elixir
Postdoctoral position in Bioinformatics (AI)
Lund University
Postdoc in Bioinformatics
Lund University
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Informatics/Bioinformatics
University of Oslo