Weekly Brief, 30 September 2024

This week's highlights

ELIXIR Science Tier open call reopening:
Human Data and Translational Research Linking Data theme

Deadline: 10 November 2024, 17:00 CET

The Linking Data theme of the Science tier focus area Human Data and Translational Research is now open. Please follow the link for the HDTR Objectives and Call Requirements for the application details.

ELIXIR funds three new projects to support Node and people development

ELIXIR has funded three projects addressing the Node and people development ambitions of its Scientific Programme for 2024 to 2028. These complement eight projects, launched in January, focussing on the Programmes scientific and technical goals.

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All Hands 2024 meeting report published

Two versions of the All Hands 2024 meeting report have been published:

• External version - with links to posters and presentations on F1000
• Internal version - including internal links to all agendas

INESC Brussels Hub podcast: the role of RIs in supporting SMEs

Together with speakers from Euro-BioImaging, ESRF and ALBA Synchrotron, ELIXIR Head of External Relations, Andrew Smith, talked about how Research and Technology infrastructure contribute to advancing research and innovation for SMEs in INESC Brussels Hub's podcast.

Listen to the podcast

Join ELIXIR Hub as a Science Officer - Compute & Data

ELIXIR is looking for an experienced bioinformatician to work closely with the ELIXIR Compute Platform and the ELIXIR Data Platform. This position also plays a key enabling role in the identification and promotion of the ELIXIR Core Data Resources and Deposition Databases.

Apply now

Recommended reads

An interconnected data infrastructure to support large-scale rare disease research

A Solve-RD paper

The Solve-RD project brings together clinicians, scientists, and patient representatives from 51 institutes spanning 15 countries to collaborate on genetically diagnosing rare diseases. The project aims to significantly increase the diagnostic success rate by co-analysing data from thousands of rare diseases cases. This paper reports on the data infrastructure, devised and created to support this co-analysis, enables users to store, find, connect, and analyse data and metadata in a collaborative manner.

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Comparison of ovarian mRNA expression levels in wild and hatchery-produced greater amberjack Seriola dumerili

An ELIXIR Italy paper

This study compares the ovary transcriptome of greater amberjack sampled in the wild with hatchery-produced breeders reared in aquaculture sea cages in the Mediterranean Sea. This research is part of a broader research effort examining the transcriptome of the entire reproductive axis in greater amberjack of both sexes and enhances our comprehension of the mechanisms underlying the appearance of reproductive dysfunctions when fish are reared under aquaculture conditions.

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Updates from Nodes

Research Software Engineering day

6 December 2024 | Brussels, Belgium
Abstract deadline: 25 October 2024

The Belgium Research Software Engineers community fosters a community of research software developers and collectively improves the standard of software used for scientific research. Join this event for a day of talks and workshops to discuss the challenges you face and the bugs you chase.
Preceding The Research Software Engineers Day, a hands-on workshop focusing on AI will take place on 5 December.

More information and registration

New de.NBI quarterly newsletter

The new de.NBI quarterly newsletter has been published. Key highlights in this issue include:

• Registration for the third BioHackathon Germany
• de.NBI/ELIXIR-DE All Hands Meeting
• Annual Meeting of the de.NBI Industrial Forum

Sign up for the de.NBI newsletter to stay up to date on the latest de.NBI and ELIXIR Germany Node's activities.

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ELIXIR Italy industry event: A bridge between research and the biotechnology industry

18 - 19 November 2024 | Bari, Italy

This event will focus on strengthening synergies between businesses and ELIXIR Italy and highlighting how ELIXIR Italy Nodes resources and services can support biotechnology companies.

More information and registration

Updates from Platforms

ELIXIR AAI engagement call

7 October 2024 | 14:00 - 15:00 CEST

The focus of this meeting will be the federated de.NBI Cloud and its integration with LS AAI. de.NBI Cloud is one of the biggest infrastructures in LS AAI and its integration related use cases can be an inspiration for other communities and services.
Everyone in the ELIXIR community interested in the Compute Platforms AAI work is welcomed to join the call.

Check the agenda (including Zoom details)

Updates from Communities

3D-BioInfo Community webinar: 3DSig 2024 - conformational diversity

8 October 2024 | 17:00 - 18:00 CEST

The next 3D-BioInfo Community webinar will focus on the following topics:

• Predicting protein conformational motions using energetic frustration analysis and AlphaFold2
• Predicting protein fold switching with AlphaFold and other approaches

More information and registration

Updates from other initiatives

16th International SWAT4HCLS conference

24 - 27 February 2025 | Hybrid - Barcelona, Spain

Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Health Care and Life Sciences (SWAT4HCLS) conference embraces life sciences as a collective term encompassing healthcare, biology, biodiversity, and agriculture. The conference links to the goals of ELIXIR with a focus on interoperability.

More information

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

BioHackathon Europe 2024
4 - 8 November 2024 | Barcelona, Spain

ELIXIR Federated Human Data Community day
19 November 2024 | Lisbon, Portugal

ELIXIR Interoperability Platform F2F meeting (hybrid) 2024
25 - 26 November 2024 | Hybrid - Manchester, UK

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

Senior Researcher at Medical Bioinformatics Centre

Turku Bioscience, University of Turku

Research Data Managers, Biomedical data stewardship and FAIR data management (RE2)

Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), coordinators of INB/ELIXIR-ES

Research Engineer AI Models Evaluation and Validation @ OpenEBench (RE3)

Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), coordinators of INB/ELIXIR-ES

Research Engineer Securing Processing Enviroments for Analysing Sensitive Data (RE3)

Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), coordinators of INB/ELIXIR-ES

Project Support Officer

University of Liverpool